The next challenge for Anderson will come tomorrow morning when he attempts to get down in the butterfly and for the first time, really test that injured ankle. If he can continue to progress like he has the past few days, he should be back in the net in the not too distant future.
Meanwhile, Sens Head Coach Paul MacLean confirmed that Ben Bishop will get the start on Saturday against the Flyers. Mike Lundin is also expected to draw back into the lineup in place of Andre Benoit.
Mark Stone, who has been sidelined with an injured finger, is expected to play for the Binghamton Senators tonight. With the team struggling to score goals lately, you’d have to think he gets a look with the big team at some point.
Good call to take Benoit out for a game. He's been quite good for us all season but I think last night was his worst game of the year, while Wiercioch and Gryba had a solid outing. It won't hurt to sit Benoit out a game or two.
On Stone, I'm sure he will get called up at some point next week after he gets a few B-Sen games in over the weekend. I imagine Murray and Maclean will want to make sure he's in game shape before they get him into an NHL game.
Safe money would say they were interested in taking a look at Robin Lehner.
Unless it's McLean's "you can't say you have depth unless you use it" philosophy.
In a bizarre twist to an already unusual
story, Sportsnet.ca has discovered that
the Flames were not only in danger of
losing 2013 first- and third-round draft
picks as compensation if the Avs hadn’t
matched the O’Reilly contract, but they
also would likely have had to surrender
the player before ever getting him in
uniform.
That’s because O’Reilly would have
needed to clear waivers before joining
the team’s roster.
I think its more of a "there must be SOMEbody who can make Chris phillips a good player again" philosophy
there is not
Saw that also. Someone in the Flames organization did not do their homework and look at the new CBA or even contacted the League office about it.
Imagine giving up a #1 & #3 draft pick for an offer sheet.. then have to put the player on waivers... who would be picked up... and the Flames are left with nothing. Yikes.
Proud of the Sens to get a point last night. A team with 7 rookies in it's lineup against a completely healthy Bruins team who will probably win the East.
From the former topic, So Kadri gets a hattrick & therefor the Sens made a mistake in not taking him?
As for Turris he is not a #1 centre but I think (IMO only) that he is trying to replace Spezza. Nobody on the team can replace Spezza. Turris has to be Turris.
He is facing the top checkers & D and yes he is struggling.
We were all singing Turris' praises last playoffs when he scored the OT goal to tie the series.
Now he struggles so he is not wanted anymore, you would sooner have Kadri because of 1 hattrick?
Kadri is having a good year as a 3rd line centre. I wonder what Turris' numbers would be if he played 3rd line centre?
Just look at his Coyotes stats, not very impressive, he was playing 3C there for awhile.
Its not his style, he's not gritty and shy's away from the physical game.
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I thought I read somewhere that Gary has an exclusive invite only program? I may be wrong but I could have sworn that he picks out who he wants to train because his schedule is super intense or something like that.
He's building a name for himself though and I imagine if given a summer with him, Turris could take it up a notch...
We all know you hate Phillips. Care to explain with actual details why you're smarter than analysts and NHL execs who generally consider him to be a valuable shutdown guy still?
Not saying he can't stick in the NHL or that he's playing way over his head, but cycling him out so Lundin can play shouldn't be a big shock.
Likely what beeblebrox said about depth actually.
Plus if we can get Lundin some games and demonstrate that he's a decent depth D maybe we can flip him at the deadline for a mid-round pick?
Makes sense to go back to Bishop as well. I think Lehner plays Sunday and if all goes well Anderson is ready for Wednesday.
EEEEEEEEEEYORE !
Yup, no prob bob.
First, I want you to count how many times per game phillips backs off the blue line and allows the puck carrier to enter the zone un-punished. Usually, its easy to notice because he spends a lot of time pointing when he should be hitting
The amount of pressure other teams gain from this I can't even begin to quantify.
2nd, after years and years of play, he still has zero ability to make a North-South pass. east-west (as in, give it to the other dman and make him do all the work) no problem, but north-south.. he's getting schooled by 1st year Sen Patrick Wiercioch.
Usually a Northward pass from phillips ends up on the other teams stick and comes right back
This is a time when we need him to step up and absorb more minutes, but he's incapable and coach Macleans matchups show just that
I could almost argue that as long as the team makes the playoffs, he's valuable.
I'm just saying, he makes the goal of making the playoffs a lot tougher
Wait didn't he score from the back of our net in the SC FINALS?! lol.
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There are no $ in the budget. The club is stil paying all of their injured players plus the call-ups are on NHL salaries. A player must miss 30 games before insurance kicks in. Unless it's dollars in, dollars out there will be no movement in the foreseeable future.
I am in the camp that thinks there was collusion between the Flames and Avs. Avs needed closure but could not just give Reilly what he wanted. They needed the guise of an offer sheet to save face with their fans and current roster structure. How fast the Avs agreeded to match seemed odd to me, now this waiver business just added fuel to the fire. Maybe we find out their GM's or owners are golf buddies in a day or two.
Bang on. That damn "budget" thing I keep talking about.
Sweep!
To me it came down to the question of why wait? If you know you are going to match it, just match it immediately and get him into the lineup ASAP. No collusion imo
I am not saying that Turris is not good, he is certainly not a #1 Centre, and has been struggling regardless of his slot.
Right now Regin seems bigger and stronger than Turris.
only Leaf fans would rather have Kadri than Turris or Cowen... IMO
And Turris numbers would only be worse if he were on the third line
Acutally I'm a SENS fan and I'd rather have Kadri now over Turris now. Kadri is creating offense out of virtually nothing with Colton Orr and whom? Turris is getting first line minutes and crapping the bed noche after noche.
Kadri vs. Cowen looks like a case of organizational need, so both teams end up winning here. Now if Cow-N is an injury-prone bad Phillips...it will look bad.
GO SENS MY BROSKIS!