The news that Svatos is looking elsewhere for work shouldn't really come as a big surprise. Svatos was given an audition with the Sens down the stretch but did little impress during his brief stint in Ottawa. A one-time 30 goal scorer, Svatos has struggled the past few seasons and failed to regain the magic he had as a member of the Avalanche.
Ryan Shannon, Francis Lessard, Pacal Leclaire, Curtis McElhinney, David Hale, Mike Brodeur, Andre Benoit, Derek Smith and Ryan Keller are all scheduled to be UFAs.
My Guessing
Ryan Shannon 2 year deal 1-way
David Hale 2 year 2-way
Andre Benoit 2 year 2-way
Derek Smith 1 year 2-way
Ryan Keller 2 year 2-way
If he does, good for him.
He should have been if he was not.
I hope they find a way to re-sign Benoit, D Smith & Keller.
Not too surprised about Svatos. I think he was just a quick fix that did not cost anything, other than salary, to fill a hole due to trades and injuries.
Off topic -- I heard today that the Sens will not be having a draft party this year. That really sucks. SBP is hosting Cirque de Soleil (Sp) during the draft.. so that's out. One of the most important drafts in team history and no party... I guess we must make our own.
Wrt Svatos (not "Mark"), that's fine. Nobody expected anything from him anyway.
I sure hope Murray is pushing for coach Muller.
Cowen, Rundblad, Hamilton, Da Costa, Grant, Canone, Petersson, Borowecki & maybe Silfverberg & Caporusso are all coming next season. Not to mention if one or two of the 2011 draft picks also make the team. Then there are guys who might be traded out & new young guys coming back who could end up playing in either Ottawa or Bingo. There just isn't that much room in the organization for all the UFAs especially since none of them play a crucial role in the organization.
Lots of teams have draft parties. Don't you ever hear the teams at the podiums 'saying hi to their fans at the draft party....". But no offence taken.
Sens had one at Bert's Bar last year.
I too hope the Sens are pushing for Muller. But would he coach a more defensive system rather than an aggressive system.. which is what the Sens are better suited for?
Quoting Sandy:
i would also think the same but tbh with the coaches we have had. i just want a coach that does what the others couldnt, especially communication.. and work well with young players.
Francis Lessard = Bye bye
Pacal Leclaire = Cya later
Curtis McElhinney = Who?
David Hale = Bingo
Mike Brodeur = O-SENS back up
Andre Benoit = Bingo
Derek Smith = Bingo
Ryan Keller = Bingo
Wait for it.....
Ray Emery!
for back-up
JMac's ownage of us a few years ago when he was with the Isles isn't yet a distant memory.
Nope, he was not.
Fully agree with Benoit, D.Smith, and Keller. Just have to hope they accept the 2-way
The only UFA I'd like to see back is Shannon. However , I doubt any of our draft picks will play next season. If we draft Couturier he will because he's NHL ready. Huburdeau and Strome however, if drafted, will probably be sent back down to Junior.
Sens rated #16 overall. Personally I'm growing tired of this "no depth behind Lehner at G" statement because really how many top end goalie prospects does 1 organization need. Washington had 3 at least and still can't decide between the 3. I agree we need 1, maybe 2 more for depth, but not as much as we need the forwards and they don't have to be as high end as Lehner. Maybe some good "needs work" types in the late rounds.
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With respect to the UFAs, I'd re-sign Hale, Benoit, Smith and Keller to 2way contracts assuming there is the room for all of them on the roster next year. Let the rest go!
Try to keep Shannon at the right price, otherwise lets see what our youngsters can bring us next year
Only back to back shutouts, they guy deserves it as much as the next guy, plus he will only be playing a handful of games, Anderson is the type of goalie who can play 60+ games. We shouldnt waste $$$ on a back up.
Leclaire Dont keep it
Svatos Go to Swiss Leigue
Hale keep it for a bingo-Sens Year
Benoit Keep it
Mcelhinney He was good but i still want to have Lalime or Brodeur
keep all other eccept Lessard
They are Restricted Free Agents.
Yeeee Haw
Ranked 16? I guess that is why these prospects are still playing in the Calder Cup playoffs.
We don't know at this point if they have plans to have him in Ottawa this year or not. He was sent down to help Bingo make the playoffs.
Brynäs, Silfverberg's team, just signed a "prominent goal-scorer" -and speculation is it's to replace Silfverberg who Swedish insiders are saying will absolutely sign a contract with Ottawa this summer:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/hockey/sverige/elitserien/article13036110.ab
Translated:
"Most now indicates that world cup-forward Jakob Silfverberg is signing with the Ottawa Senators" - Sportbladet, Aftonbladet.
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I thought we would have been lower, closer to 20th or 22nd. Our prospects are nothing to get excited about, alot of 3rd line players and a future #1 goalie, I think what puts us at 16 is our prospect depth at D, we do have a bunch of studs in the making.
But thats about it.
Only back to back shutouts, they guy deserves it as much as the next guy, plus he will only be playing a handful of games, Anderson is the type of goalie who can play 60+ games. We shouldnt waste $$$ on a back up.
I agree with you that we should not be spending any money on a back up that we don't really need, but Brodeur only played 4 games last year and I dunno where you got the back to back shutouts, considering he only made 35 saves last season with the big club and only played 1 game start to finish...
09-10 he got the b2b shutouts and was 3/3 for wins. Not bad but again it's not enough to make a valid pitch for him to be back-up..
So pretty much we have 2 out of 3 positional categories of prospects covered with pretty high level talent. To me that easily translates to our current ranking and I think after this year's draft we will climb up even further.
A lot of the Sens' best forward prospects are relative unknowns (Stone, Silverberg ...) with respect to how it will translate to the nhl. I'm obviously more confident then most that we currently have 2 top 6 prospects (Butler & ...).
Obviously we have a lot of surefire 3rd & 4th line prospects, but I personally think that's better then a 1st or 2nd line prospect who is completely hit or miss.
I've been celebrating since just after the last game of the season:
When Clouston's sorry ass was fired.
2) How are Saint John and Huberdeau doing - if it wasn't for the Gatineau goalie that would've been an easy 4 game sweep - they were outshot most nights by 20+ shots.
But I guess most people are idiots and you are the hockey reference here on SENS chirp.
Murray better trade up for Huberdeau that's all I have to say. Solid on the puck - back checks - plays a solid game. + can put the puck in the net and passes like Spezza.
Regin, Daugavins, Potulny, Z.Smith, Hoffman, Wick, Silfverberg, Petersson, Condra, Greening, to name a few. Most have shown they can compete at the NHL level. Than there's Butler and Da Costa to add in obviously. Caporusso possibly too
I wouldn't be surprised if Silfverberg snags a spot on the opening day roster or, if he's one of the first call ups. Stone probably lands in Bingo and he's another who could earn a call up if he can shift his offense to the pro level
Seems that the consensus is that: Since we don't have any forwards who were drafted in the top 50 or so, we have nobody, or one of the worst pools in the NHL.
Lots of our prospects have already shown they are better than some drafted way higher than them.
Huberdeau looks like a gem!
And I'm pretty damn sure Feaster had Kuba in Tampa. Maybe there is a taker for the man who's Dad wears THE HAT!
potulny is too old to be a propect..he's 26, condra and greening will both be 25
I thought the write up was bang on. Solid D prospects, good talent in the farm, but lacking in terms of star forwards [to be fixed this draft], and another goalie would be great.
That being said I would love if Murray used one of his second round picks and drafted a goalie this year. You always want to keep the cupboard full.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNg43axDba0
http://www.hockeysfuture.com/prospects/teemu_pulkkinen
4th round pick, too. Damn the Wings know how to draft.
http://www.hockeysfuture.com/nhl_organisation_rankings/?start=12
We were ranked 16th then, and we are ranked 16th now. notice anything? all the same names! the only thing that changed was they replaced caporusso with Silfverberg.
The only thing thats gets me is the lack of mention of Butler, and DaCosta. I suppose Butler doesn't count as a 'prospect' because of the number of games he's played in the NHL. I consider him one, but I guess they don't.
I imagine we will be ranked top 5 by next spring.
Aside from the fact that you're wrong (youre off be a factor rather than a fraction), all I can say is it's too bad you actually typed that out.
Please see Sandy's response for something relevant/civilz ed (she saw my 'no offence' caveat).
Anyway, I could see Murray dealing Shannon on draft day. I'd be fine with him staying - he's cheap and doesn't hurt us. +/- is stupid, but his rating still raises my eyebrow considering our season. I think shipping him out for a pick is in line with Murray's rebuild strategy, gives us another spot for a youngster and a pick.
I know Shannon was in Anaheim when they won the Cup. Question is was he there with Murray before.
Murray kinda hangs on to those types of players.
To non-Murray drafts are Foligno and Regin.
I can't see them dealing either of them... but it depends who in the draft they want bad enough.
http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/13066/iss_top30_risers_and_fallers_may2011/
Huberdeau 7th, ill take him at 6th for sure.
98% sure Shannon was either a Burke signing, or was signed by an interim GM. Murray's tenure with Anaheim finished at the lockout. Shannon was signed post lockout.
If Huburdeau AND Couturier are both gone, I balls out for Ryan Strome. Let's hope the two other D prospects other then Larsson [Hamilton, Murphy] get drafted prior to the Sens' pick, so we can snap Hub.
To be honest, I won't be disappointed if we don't move up. Huburdeau can turn out just as good as Landeskog; I'm not too fussy.
whoever gets drafted is going to help down the road and that's all that matters.
Landeskog is spost to be Mike Richards like... meh, I hate Mike Richards anyways. Out of the top 10 forward prospects he has the lowest points too... Gimme Strome.
Scratch him off the list. Decent player.
Love it. I'd be ecstatic with either one of those guys. Getting Landeskog shouldn't be a 'make or break' for the franchise. All of these kids are potential stars.
When was Skinner picked? 7th. Brett Connolly? 6th. No need to move up. Skinner's potential rookie of the year and Connolly's probably going to be next season.
I'll stay in 6th and keep my assets.
OK you got me, I was trying to funny but it is hard with a lot of old people from the town that fun forgot. WIth all seriousness I think there should be a draft party as there are in every city, every draft (or at least the cities that care about hockey cough cough xAtlanta Phoenix) Chirp??
@Jakester
How would getting the Flames pick give us 3 top 15 picks?
I hope we draft a wow type player, if we move up to make it happen so be it.
our later picks are going to be our distant future.
Petersson Silverberg Butler in my opinion are going to be top 6 talent, throw in Spezza Alfie and a New top 3 player via free agent or trade for Spezza and we have our top lines and as others have said we have tons of talent after that, not forgeting Foligno Regin Condra Michalek depending who in that bunch go if it is a trade for our new top winger.
Shows how much you know...Landesko g has the highest goals per game avg of all of the top 10. He was injured and still managed to finish the highest, 2nd to him was Huberdeau.
Is that really the type of player we want? Wouldnt you rather have a player that works hard, goes in the corners, doesnt back down from fights.
just so you know, Zach phillips aka the guy who plays on Huberdeau's wing and tears it up with him on the Powerplay, was injured for the final 3 games of that series.
There was another injury on the team too, and Huberdeau was forced to play as a winger for the final 3 games on a line that he hadn't play on all season.(his first game on that line he went pointless)
Did you happen to notice that Huberdeau registered at least 6 shots per game? but usually got 8-10?
Thats the kind of player I want.
I don't mind a slight dip in production against a hot goaltender, as long as the results are still a win. and thats where huberdeau gets the edge over Landeskog.
don't get me wrong theres about 5 guys I'd be happy to draft at number 6, and landeskog is one of them. but I think Huberdeau has twice the upside, as he's younger, less physically developed but puts up more points.
PLUS, he's canadian.
Thanks for straightening that out Conor.
What or who would the Sens have to give up to get 1 more first round pick. Would they not have to give up the Nashville pick to move up? or 2 second rounders + a prospect/player -- someone like Brian Lee (who had a very good finish to the season) or Jim O'Brien -- who came into form in the AHL this season -- maybe could crack their lineup on the 4th line.
Obviously I think they should have been ranked higher. Not sure how a team that is about to go to the Calder Cup Finals could be the 16th best team in the AHL, but there you go.
What I'm more curious about is what teams were ranked 1-15. Once I see that criteria, I'll make my decision if it was based on actual fact, or if it's simply bias again.
OH LOOK. THE LEAFS ARE IN THE TOP 10. I'M STUNNED.
CAN SOMEONE REMIND ME AGAIN HOW A TEAM LIKE THE LEAFS CAN CONSISTENTLY RANK HIGH ON THIS LIST AND CONTINUE TO MISS THE PLAYOFFS? OH AND THE MARLIES MISSED THE PLAYOFFS TOO? I WONDER WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE FOR THIS SITE COME FROM. HMM.
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