Senators' Alfredsson Will Miss Game 4 OTTAWA - Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson did not appear at the team's morning skate at Scotiabank Place Wednesday, all but precluding his appearance in Game 4 against the Rangers. Alfredsson is still feeling the effects of the concussion he received when elbowed by the Rangers" Carl Hagelin in Game 2, and for which Hagelin was suspended three games. "There's no update," Senators Coach Paul MacLean said of Alfredsson's condition Wednesday morning. Alfredsson, 39, has played 109 postseason games in his 16-season career, all with Ottawa. He has missed only three of 112 playoffs games in modern franchise history, and the Senators lost them all. His absence reduces the Senators" chances, not only to even the series with the Rangers, which they trail, 2-1 - but also to snap their seven-game home losing streak in postseason play. It stretches back to their loss in Game 4 of the 2007 Stanley Cup finals against Anaheim. That streak ties an N.H.L. record shared by Toronto (1952-56), Chicago (1975-79), Boston (1994-96) and Vancouver (1996-2003). "I think so," said forward Jason Spezza when asked if the Senators have to get used to life without Alfredsson. We have. Our plan is to play without him and when he comes back he'll be a big boost to our club. Alfredsson has scored 46 goals in his 109 career playoff games, and the Senators will miss that rate of production. But they are also missing Spezza's scoring. He has not scored in the three games against the Rangers, as well as the last two games in Ottawa's previous playoff series, in 2010. In the regular season, Spezza was fourth in the league in scoring. Defenseman Matt Carkner is eligible to play again after serving his one-game suspension for sucker-punching Brian Boyle in Game 2. MacLean would not reveal his lineup, but Carkner said he expected to play. Carkner called Game 3, which featured no brawling or cheap shots, "a pretty good" hockey game. "The physicality was still there - good clean hits, back-and-forth chances," he said. I think that's the way the game should be played. When asked how he would try to play in Game 4 after a 39-second performance in Game 3 that featured an attack and an ejection, Carkner said he would just keep it simple. "Just be myself," he said.