It’s going to be a long year. Let’s make the abundantly clear right out of the gate. We are now 6 games into the season and its becoming increasingly difficult to keep up the feeling of optimism held by many fans prior to opening night.
In Detroit, we stunk up the joint for 2 periods and then turned it on in the third but lost 5-3. Against the Leafs it was the same formula, with the game ending up 6-5 after a 5 goal third period by the Sens. Then we sneaked one out against Minnesosta, which was a game that the Sens absolutely dominated, but still had to win by shootout. The general consensus was that sure, we sucked, but this team was definitely not going to go out without a fight.
And then the sh** hit the fan.
A 2-1 loss to Washington on Saturday sandwiched in between two of the worst performances in recent memory. A seemingly never ending shellacking at the hands of the Colorado Avalanche that we lost 7-1, and Tuesday night’s loss to a dominant Flyers team where the final score was 7-2.
It was like a slap in the face. All of the good will and optimism was smacked out of the fan base and reality set in. This is not going to be a good year for the Ottawa Senators. However, these massive loses got me thinking about the present state of the franchise, and what we can expect going forward.
More often than not, the 2011-2012 Senators are compared to teams who have recently gone through similar rebuilding efforts. Teams like Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York Islanders, and most recently the Edmonton Oilers. Teams that were once great whose window opened and closed some with championship wins, and some without. Inevitably changes were made and these teams all eventually fell to the bottom of the standings.
One thing that people often fail to remember is the fact that only 4 years ago, the Senators were competing in the Stanley Cup Finals which was the culmination of 11 straight seasons in which we made the playoffs. Our team had been built to compete for a championship. Year after year the Senators were chosen as post season darlings. Always a threat to win it all. But after a series of disappointing early round collapses the Senators brass were on a never ending search for the missing piece of the puzzle.
Prospects were traded, rental players were obtained for draft picks in hopes that the missing link would be found. Maybe now everything would be in place and the Senators could capitalize and go on what many perceived as an inevitable Championship run. But it never turned out that way. Ottawa’s organizational depth and farm system was one of the shallowest in the league as a result and the present day team is now suffering dearly for it.
The Senators lack of prospect depth failed to boost the organization from within. I mean honestly, when some of your top prospects in the last 5 years have been Cody Bass and Josh Hennessey you know your team sold the farm chasing a Stanley Cup. Our older players started to decline, and along with them the team began to fall in the standings. The 2007-2008 season saw a Senators team implode in the first round of the playoffs leaving them with the 15th overall pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. The Sens drafted a skinny Swede named Erik Karlsson. I’m sure you haven’t heard of him. What’s that you say? He was an All-Star last season? He’s currently leading the league in scoring by a defenseman and is tied for second in overall league scoring? OH that’s right. Now I remember him. He’s the one that has been developing on a steady incline for the past 3 season and is now coming into his own as an NHL calibre player.
Erik Karlsson is the template for Senators prospects. Entering the league as an unsure rookie who didn’t quite belong in his first season, Karlsson has increasingly settled into a comfort level in the NHL and is now a cornerstone of the franchise.
The biggest thing to take away from all of this is that prospects need to be afforded the time to develop, and just because the Senators had an extremely successful draft this year, we can’t expect these high ceiling rookies to be anything and everything we want them to be.
Players like Jared Cowen and David Rundblad can only get better, and they will get better. Other prospects like Mika Zibanejad, Shane Prince, Mark Boroweicki, Jakub Silfverberg, Mark Stone and a handful of others will all be NHL ready prospects at sometime, but the time is definitely not now.
That is the unfortunate predicament that Senators fans find themselves in this season. Full of hope for the future, but stuck in the present.
Sure, this is going to be a long year. We can expect a series of peaks and valleys, highs and lows, but it is essential to keep the bigger picture in mind. Our top prospects will continue to develop. Our young stars will continue to blossom and soon things won’t be looking so bleak. We have one of the best scouting teams in the league, and a GM with a sparkling draft history and in five years when the Senators are competing in the Stanley Cup finals against the Edmonton Oilers all of our suffering will have been worth it.
As always you can let me know your thoughts in the comments section, or send me a note on Twitter @TomSENS
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- Sens practiced this morning and were joined by injured defenceman Sergei Gonchar. He skated in drills with the rest of the team and could play tomorrow night against the Jets. Would expect that Craig Anderson will get the start.
- Speaking of Sens practice, sounds like it was an up-tempo, intense practice based on the reports from Twitter. The difference between last year's team and this year's is already clear. While talent may be lacking, I really get the sense that this team and this coaching staff hate losing and are willing to put the work in to get better.
- There were some changes up front this morning with Michalek joining Spezza and Greening on the top line. Regin skated on the second line with Foligno and Alfredsson. Zibanejad was between Smith and Neil with the fourth line consisting of Konopka, Da Costa and Condra.
Who projects as a first line player that is currently in our system? We have a lot of guys who should make it to the NHL, but a dearth of players who can be legitimate impact players. That scares me.
I would say noesen and puemple have a legitimate shot. Silfverberg, da costa, hoffman all have 2nd line ceilings for sure
Granted we dont have a stamkos or nugent-hopkins or seguin type first line player, but really let me know of many teams that have that type of prospect sitting in the AHL. If a team has a 1st line prospect normally they are already in the NHL or fringe AHL because of contract issues (Brayden Schenn)
The ugly spots (goaltending, ongoing very loose defensive coverage) were real ugly, but started to see how this team can get up ice quickly. Some hope for a transition game.
Ok so now that Tom has said it, maybe the "real fans" will finally get it???
Well said Tommy boy, exactly what I have been trying to make people understand...
As for our prospect pool, i know, we dont have any STAR power, real first line players, but that will all be fixed once you know who gets here, Yak attack!!!!
Pageau, Puempel, Stone will make great 2nd line players, maybe even 1st, who knows...
And in 2013, get Mackinnon!!!!!
offseason came and we tried to replace them with ... Konopka and Auld? We need to fill the gaps with good players that aren't Russians and ones that are reliable players.
That's true, some decent prospects but no Hossas or Havlats that we can see yet. But, the strategy hs been to build from the back end. The cliche is that it takes D longer to develop than forwards. The Sens are going to be a lottery team this year, probably next year as well. I expect that the target will be forwards. The rebuild will be a work in progress, with more prospects added to the mix.
I am concerned if the mix of experience to youth is out of whack. Last night there were 3 or 4 rookies and sophmores on the ice at the same time, and it was boys vs. men. Not sure it that is the best for development. Should there be a bit more veteran presence to give guidance and stability?
Seriously?
First, there are plenty of great Russian players, so that's just bigotry.
Second, Konopka and Auld caliber players were brought in because the veteran stop-gap plan is over and we are REBUILDING. You don't target high priced, veteran FA's during a rebuild.
Seriously, some people are so dense it's alarming.
To think that our prospects are automatically that much better than all other teams is short-sighted. We have great d prospects this is true. We have an abundance of 3rd and 4th line prospects (Condra, Greening and Smith).
There are some wildcards like Butler and Filatov but in reality they bioth still have everything to prove and it's extremely unlikely they are both 1st line players.
We hope that Zibanejad, Silfverburg will make it, but they are a couple of years away at least. The one thing we are truly missing is an elite forward prospect. Hopefully the pain of this year and next year means we will be able to address this.
Murray has done a great job in restocking the farm, but the reality is you rarely find true star players outside the top 5 of the draft.
for the naturally verbose, 1000 characters is a real challenge if you want to put over a cohesive point and have a decent conversation
call me crazy but i honestly believe that depending on his development if he stays here or goes back to the SEL. the difference in his game can be from a mike fisher to a ryan kesler. and the only way i will accept keeping zibanejad in N.america is if the ultimate plan is to keep him, buy out his SEL contract then send him down to bingo and to the WJC and bring him back up at the end of the season at the earliest.
Surely you must see the rebuild that is happening beyond the free agent signings? Adding Konopka and Auld was not intended to return the team to glory. These are role players brough in to fill roster spots until young guys are ready to step in.
agree about zbad - send him back to the SEL and allow the players that we are unsure about (BUtler, Filatov, Regin, Foligno) prove that they deserve to be part of the rebuild down the line.
We know what we have in Mika, he's nothing to prove to management this year that he won't have done in training camp and in workouts.
At this point, it seems stupid not to see if Spezza and Filatov can develop some chemistry. What's the worst that can happen, it's hard to play worse than what we've seen up to this point.
You'll see him in 4 games. Game 10, he'll be back!
We can't relay on any prospect paning out all we can do is take who's the best at what and work with it until it all comes together.
I want Rundblad to get the same attention Karlsson did and throw him in the AHL for a few games until he steps up where the games aren't as important. no knock too the ahl that is not an easy league by any means but it's not the nhl.
Zibanejad goes to the SEL and works on his offense I don't care if his working on his D game it requires goals to win and without Butler, Filatov on the 4 lines we need a pure breed scorer.
^^^^^ this
Schenn was just called up too. He was only sent to the AHL to recover from the injury and reduce his salary. He had a huge bonus clause if he played all his games in the nhl this year.
Not at all. I've said many times that the only piece we're missing is the elite scoring winger on the top line and it looks like we may very well end up with one of the big two in the draft next summer.
Just because we don't have said player yet does not mean that we have poor depth. We have one of the elite goalie prospects in the NHL (McKeen's #3 ranked), the three headed D monster, and a ton of forwards who have the talent to play in the top 6 one day (Puempel, Stone, Zibanejad, Noesen, Silfverberg, Filatov immediately come to mind)
Let's hope he cranks it up tomorrow. Alarming that his shit bag agent is already chiming in on the boo birds.
one game at a time.
Additionally, can anyone shed some light into who you think the next team to offially declare a team rebuild will be? There must be some teams that are on the verge of pulling a Ottawa Senators (rise and fall).
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The Sens have lost games to Det, Tor, Col, Wash, Phil who have a combined record of 21 wins and 1 loss with 2 OT losses.
If you look at Toronto (as an example) they have a 3 wins in 4 games - Mtl, Ott, Calgary who have a combined record of 4 wins and 11 losses.
The Sens have appeared to 'stopped working the system' once they get down by a couple of goals. The idea is to keep it going and don't let up even if the other teams score 1st.
If we have to put up with 2 years with this kind of play, then Yakoupov and Mackinnon better be our rewards. We'll definitely be competing for a cup in a few years if both of these guys are on our team.
We may have picked the best time to start rebuilding since this year and next are supposed to be great draft years.
Look at the leafs, Bourke has been going out and trading for and picking up salary. The pressure for them to make the playoffs this year is so high that they are now kissing the salary cap. Why a team still trying to prove themselves and develop is up against the cap is not a good sign of things to come in Leaf nation. The leafs will likely peak and bust again in the next 5 years.
In retrospect the Sens are developing from within and hopefully will not be coming close to the cap until they are ready. If your not going to make the playoffs might as well be in lottery contention and continue to acquired top prospects. Big free agent signing are supposed to push you over the top to make you a cup contender, they should not be singed to help you make the post season. After last season everybody wants there reward now but a few seasons patience will be required with this rebuild.
Hehe Sandy, your hate for a single team astounds me, you put TOR in the list of good teams we played and then bash them for playing poor opponents, lol...double standard much?
If they played such bad opponents, we should have won no, instead of getting outplayed for 50 minutes...
What do you think the Sens will do with the next 4 games on the sched?
Should they win all 4?
Get a split?
Or lose all 4?
McKeen's and HockeysFuture both have our prospects (particularly in D and in net) among the best in the league. This isn't just fans saying our farm is good.
Calgary is next to blow things up. They have An aging core without enough firepower and very few legitimate prospects. Add to that a dozen pending free agents next year and a goalie and captain that many teams would covet at the deadline. If they are out of the playoff race near the deadline, Feaster has to blow them up.
It would be great if "good" posters (i.e. intelligent, literate) could be granted more chars... while "bad" posters (e.g. you know who they are) are restricted. Tie it into the +/- system, perhaps.
I would agree with Calgary being the next team...Cant think of another that would sell the vets for pics and kids...
Imagine New York. We trade picks and they give us Stepan Del Zotto and a second rounder.
Yeah cuz the Filatov move was so great....lol.
Umm yeah I'd take Yakupov everyday of the week before Stepan or Del Zotto?
Both of them dont fit into the rebuild.
Calgary definitely needs a full blowup. If New Jersey doesn't have success or can't retain Parise they will be looking at a rebuild as well.
Aside from that most of the other teams that need a rebuild are either already into it (Islanders, Hurricanes, Stars, Oilers, Blue Jackets, Avalanche, Leafs and Jets) or in denial like Florida/Phoenix /Minnesota.
did you read it says TRADE picks with New York AND get
Del zotto AND stepan AND GET A SECOND ROUND PICK
We've seen glimpses of them looking bad in past years playoffs, their depth is starting to hurt a little.
But its Detroit, I'm sure they have a plan...
No thanks, they can keep their shitty players and mid to late 2nd round pick.
I hope to God you aren't implying flipping our first round pick with New York considering we may be picking first overall! That would be insanity!
That's what I was thinking too. They seem to be pretty good at rebuilding while competing. Though they don't have many high rated offensive prospects right now, their prospects seem to often outdo others expectations.
yes agreed, but we still have to watch Kuba and Gonchar, hurt the development of the other... why not play your best and let them ride the buses like Redden in NY?
Karlsson is untouchable. They are not after him.
@HockeyBreak Hockey Break
Oilers still looking for a young top 4D, their 1st round pick is in fact in play.
I'd say Zibanejad is currently the only forward prospect who Sens fans can be sure has 1st line potential. The other guys in the organization all have lots to prove. Fans simply have to cross their fingers and wait 3-5 years. There is no secret way to find out what we have with our prospects till then.
Stone, Butler, Da Costa, Greening, Filatov, Noesen, Prince, Petersson, Hoffman, Condra, Z.Smith, Silfverburg, Pageau, and Puempel. Give it 3-5 years and we'll know what we have with the majority of these guys. Pray that one of them hits a first line ceiling. Hope that some of the others can be regular contributors at the NHL level.
It might be kind of lame to be a lousy team. However it's also very exciting to watch young players grow and learn. Just stop caring about the L's and watch the players.
Absolutely NEVER! The most you'll see is a draft Nail chant when we are actually done the season and approaching the draft ... u know, the way it's supposed to go!
dont forget Bergeron from Tampa also has 8 points, and he has a hard time finding a spot on an NHL roster.
There are plenty of good d-men like Karlsson that will not be as good as Doughty.
At best Karlsson might end up like a Dan Boyle or an Tobias Enstrom, but he needs to pick it up defensively, if he wants to earn a big time contract, he has not done that yet IMO
Sens played elite teams in Det, Wash, Philly. A good team in Toronto that is better than the Sens right now. The Sens by right should not have lost to Colorado (based on last year) BUT Colorado has been playing well and is now 2nd in the West.
The Sens have been awful except for the Minny & Wash games.. not trying to sugar coat it.
Do the Sens win the next 4 games. Well they should against Winn & Columbus.. but will they.. That is the question of the day.
Just saying Tor would have an easier time beating Mtl, Ott, Cal than Ottawa would have with Wash, Det & Philly. Do you agree?
What on gods earth is it with the Sens goalies.
I am starting to feel that perhaps it was not all Leclaire, Elliot, and Gerber all these years. Our D-men have to take some responsibility, especially after the signing of another pretty good goalie in Anderson, and they find a way to make him look horrible too.
If I have to pay my money to watch the games, then I agree, let me watch the kids develope, and this includes, Lee, Gyrba, Wiercoch. And sit the overpaid 3 over the hill ones who are playing like crap.
Maybe it really isn't all the previous goalies fault!
"Do the Sens win the next 4 games. Well they should against Winn & Columbus.. but will they.. That is the question of the day.'
Answer ...NOPE ..They will go 0-4 ..1-9 they have already gave up 2 touchdowns (7) 2 games and 6 another ..we have 16 GF and 30 GA lol No help in sight ...
Best part about last nights game was after the 5 or 6 goal I believe they showed Murray and he leaned back in his chair and shouted FUCK hahahahahahaha
Had to be the longest, but most informative post, I have ever read on SensChirp in past 2 years or more.
Once our 10th game comes up, on Oct 27th vs Florida, we should have a competitive roster, and some chemistry in our line combos, and defense pairings. Anderson and Auld need to keep us in the game, and as long as the efforts are there, losing more often can be more palatable, in a re-build of a few seasons !!
GO SENS GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rockin Robert
yah I saw that too, he was not happy.
but even better is the stache, he looked like if he could drop the gloves he would. I have faith in him, so if his so called leaders are letting him down, or he is losing the bench, its about time the bench stop playing them and we keep the coach and fire some player!
I love your name dude those wanna be jets or jackets better not fck it up for us !!!
IF (big if) they play the way they did against Minny then they stand a chance to win against one of the two. But they lost pretty decisively against Winnipeg in the Kraft hockeyville game... so hopefully they saw something they can fix from that.
As for Zibby -- once he adjusts to the NHL game he will be good. Sending him back to Sweden he gets a year older and maybe stronger.. but he still will have the same problem next year learning the NHL game. So I think it's better to keep him here. Put him in a position on the team he is comfortable with. Give him some games in the pressbox to watch & learn like they did with Rundblad.
I think Zibby will actually do better to be stronger/faster /more confident/and have a winning attitude if he goes back to Sweden. I'm just not feeling these blowouts doing anything good for our youth.
But when you look outside of the Canadian teams, the one that really sticks out to me is Columbus. They've been a pure dissapointment and this year, heads were going to roll if they didn't do something. So they acted on it and what's happened, not too much. They'll give it this year and maybe even next selling the farm, much like Ottawa did in the past. But the difference here is Ottawa had a chance back then, CBJ doesn't.
Dallas and San Jose are two other teams with stars who aren't getting any younger.
Name one star on Dallas aside from the front of their jerseys?
Thanks bro ..I agree with you but I think Jets and Jackets will be fine Us on the other hand we are screwed just wait till Spezza back acts up and Milians knees start to hurt then its smooth sailing for Ottawa
Haha awesome! Jamie Benn, loui Eriksson, Trevor Daly, and Goligoski aren't that bad.
They do have dome decent players but they won't be contending for anything except a lottery pick until they get new ownership. They had to pick up Eric Nystrom through a trade with Minnesota instead of getting him at half price on re-entry waivers just to get over the cap floor.
1) not overrated. i was at a peterborough game the other day and Puempel isn't overrated. if you want to see if our prospects are good go to pete's or whaler or olimpiques games(i assume most of us are from ontario/quebec area) and actually see them.
2) we had 11 picks this draft?? we will have at least 7+ more next draft. alot of it is a numbers game. if our prospect pool is big enough we are bound to get a good late round diamond. we can also afford to have a few of our picks turn out to not reach potential if the pool is deep enough.
3)many will disagree with me but i think we should trade alfie(i really love him) when deadline comes. he could get us a 1st round pick if he continues to play well and i don't want him to ride off into the sunset without leaving something good behind as well as finishing off his career as a winner.
Is your name really Brian Burke? If so, I have a really truculent mother in law you can have for future considerations.
If only all sens fans were as smart as him, there is only one way to do it and a year from now we will all be on yakupovs bandwagon
I disagree 100% this is a development year they need a winning mentality and to build confidence.The pens are doing good with out Crosby or Malkin,hawks are struggling the caps always choke in the playoff and the oilers has a bigger
chance of getting Yakupov then the sens.Look at who won the cup last year!
Definite step in the right direction....so for the ones who were ecstatic with the Anderson trade last year(which I hated at the time and still do..Col sure got us there)
, are you still glad we gave up a higher pick(since lots are now bitching about him) by getting Anderson??
Hey we are just 6 games in the season man RELAX!
also, in the draft overview it says that i picked some other players?
??? who isn't relaxed. I am actually probably the most relaxed watching this team I have ever been.
The Oilers have had the last 2 first overall picks. It's time to share the wealth.
The Sens had better be prepared for tomorrow. The Jets look good. Leading the Leafs 3 - 1 midway threw the 2nd period.
If you where you would probably wait 3 months before saying that this team sucks
If you where you would probably wait 3 months before saying that this team sucks
Yakupov
Damn straight !! We won't regret it check him out friday night on ohl package .... Next year sens Caleder winner
I just genuinely hope our teams fear of Russians does not make us pass him by.
lol you can't compare last year to this year!
Keep on dreaming fool's you will be disapointed come draft day
Don't think I actually care...but in your opinion why can the two seasons not be compared??? Even more fans were optimistic last season because the rebuild had yet to be officially announced, I called it around this time last year though.
So why should I not predict we finish bottom of the league this year(when its an even easier prediction)
i was surprised at how much his stock slipped. the only reason he wasnt picked up till 24th was due to his season ending surgery. i remember prior to the injury, he was projected in the top 15. similar story to cowen in his draft year.
The Sens had better be prepared for tomorrow. The Jets look good. Leading the Leafs 3 - 1 midway threw the 2nd period.
Off topic... but how do the Leafs get so many PP. They are down 3 - 1 then they get back to back PP's.. tie game.
BahahahhahhahHh a! Bahaahhahhahaha !!!!
Jets lost... in the shootout.
Lupul with 2 goals in the game and one in the shootout. Kessel with the other. He's off to a great start but will it last. I believe the Leafs scoring tonight came from the one line. Leafs have the most PP's in the league so far. Really a head scratcher for such a truculent team. Go figure.
speaking of calgary...their prospect pool is shite and i dont know that they have a ton of easily tradeable commodities.
i think a calgary rebuild could be excrutiatingly long.
Already for Xmas Im getting my number 10 Yakupov jersey are you !!!!!
..Really genius who would u pick ? You dont want the Sens to be better get closer too Elite lol call your self a fan ...whos the fool
A spectacular week for Sarnia Sting phenom Nail Yakupov in which he took the lead among league scorers was capped Monday with OHL Player of the Week honours.
Yakupov wracked up 12 points in four games, with a pair of goals and 10 assists and an impressive plus-minus rating of plus-8.
the toronto favouritism is unbelievable and blatant
..Really genius who would u pick ? You dont want the Sens to be better get closer too Elite lol call your self a fan ...whos the fool
we have one of the deppest prospect pool of the entire nhl it s now time too devolop them into winners,i realy don't think that Murray or Maclean wants to srap one year for Yakupov and i watched a lot of other teams play this season and i don't think we are the worst team in the league so we wont have the first pick. I would rather have lots of good prospects then just one elite prospect and a bounch of broken prospects.
A spectacular week for Sarnia Sting phenom Nail Yakupov in which he took the lead among league scorers was capped Monday with OHL Player of the Week honours.
Yakupov wracked up 12 points in four games, with a pair of goals and 10 assists and an impressive plus-minus rating of plus-8.
we have one of the deppest prospect pool of the entire nhl it s now time too devolop them into winners,i realy don't think that Murray or Maclean wants to srap one year for Yakupov and i watched a lot of other teams play this season and i don't think we are the worst team in the league so we wont have the first pick. I would rather have lots of good prospects then just one elite prospect and a bunch of broken prospects.
A spectacular week for Sarnia Sting phenom Nail Yakupov in which he took the lead among league scorers was capped Monday with OHL Player of the Week honours.
Yakupov wracked up 12 points in four games, with a pair of goals and 10 assists and an impressive plus-minus rating of plus-8.
Geez what have I started...I love it!!
We dont really have to fail, I mean that would be giving up, just keep going the way we are, we suck enough to stay at the bottom!
Bunch of us already got tickets for the Ottawa vs Sarnia game, gonna be nuts, more cheering for Yak than the 67's haha!
Friday January 27th, 2012 @ 7:30pm.
Lets pack that rink to 10,000 and chant for YAK!
I believe Stone spent part of this summer in Ottawa working with the Senators Power Skating coach Mr. Power. What I did see in the rookie tournament & training camp was that his skating has improved quite a bit. I think he will continue to work on his skating with the Sens staff & although it may never be great it should be good enough to give him a decent NHL career. I would also think that if they put him on a line with some faster skaters that will help defensively. He is one of the players I think will really help this franchise in future along with Derek Grant & Matt Puemple.
Yeah Stone is ripping it up too but he's not as polished as Yakupov, so far I havent seen Yakupov struggle with any phyical tasks, hit, puck cycling, forecheck...He' s got tree trunks for legs and is not easily pushed off the puck.
Stone although he has as good a skill set, his skating will keep him down from reaching Yakupov status.
2011-12 10gp 14g 8a 22pts!!!
2010-11 65gp 45g 35a 80pts!!!
Im ok with Rundblad tho but imagine this kid with Spezza!!!!
I know we have a few prospects will play for other countries, but it'd be nice to be able to watch a Canadian kid or two of ours coming up.
We need to talk about who will win the battle of the bottom dwellers!!!
Chirp can easily see what happened if this is the case, he'll just need to check the overall draft review. Yahoo keeps the list from the original draft. Im in the same pool with you, but have everyone I drafted (minus the moves I've made). I don't see why your team would have changed, but then again, anything is possible. What's your team name?
Round 1, Jonathan Quick picked by ochocinqos
Round 2, Kopitar picked by hockey
Round 4, Kessel picked by Smilez
Round 5, Karlsson picked by John Q. Spartan
Yeah and let's hope we can focus on discussing an important win for the Senators tonight and not continue down this tanking some enigmatic Russian who-knows-what- will-happen-bet ween-now-and-th e-draft bullshit. What will happen will happen, but FFS this is only Game 7.
People say it's the end of the world because we don't have 1st line type propects. I agree we don't but we already have Spezza(and 1C is the toughest position to fill) so if we get either Yakupov or Forsberg we'll be sitting pretty. We have more 2nd/3rd line depth then anyone in the league so by adding a 1st line winger this year we'll be left with only one other hole on the entire roster. And I think Filatov is talented enough to fill that role so really we won't have any holes after this draft just so long as we get 1st or 2nd overall. It's just a matter of players developing which may take a few years.
FAIL FOR NAIL!!
All along I've been saying it's stupid. He not only got us away fromRNH and/or Landeskog but when people were saying Ottawa will be competitive this year because of him stealing a few games I laughed. He is a mediocre goalie at best. Has only had 2 good seasons his entire career. Our team is god awful this year. Way too many "if's" on the roster. We basically have an AHL team with a few NHL players scattered throughout the lines. A midiocre goalie will do nothing for us this year. But to be honest I'm happy he isn't the star everybody made him out to be. I've said all along these 3 years(including last year and the following 2) are the best years to be rebuilding. I guarantee the "plan" Bryan Murray pitched to Eugene before he signed his extension included being bad for these years while stockpiling serious talent PLUS saving huge money by being at the cap floor.
Still liking your Anderson jersey??
Bryan Murray likes this guy because he isn't brutal and by that I mean doesntgive us the stupid goals Gerber and Leclaire did but at the same time he doesn't complain about being on a shitty team. He's used to this. He has never been on a good team.
On top of it all he just had a baby with his wife and is settling in to his home in Canada while making 3+ million for 4 years.
He's a happy camper. Sure he'd like to win but in the end I'm sure he goes home very day after practice and is 100% content with life.
So who cares if we get scored on 6 or 7 times a game. Who cares about his confidence/feel ings. We have Lehner who will be ready next year or the year after.
We need to be last this year. We need that 1st line winger. No point in being competitive this year but still finishing 10th or 11thIf we do Bryan Murray needs to make a blockbuster trade to either move up in the draft to be 1st or 2nd overall or get a ready made 1st line winger
Where we you when he stonewalled Boston in the pre-season? I bet you feel pretty smart about yourself picking such an opportunistic time to try and make yourself look like a genius!
must agree
Just like last year when I had tickets to the Kitchener Rangers to see Landeskog. How did that work out?
Sarnia plays in Ottawa Friday, November 12th @ 7:30pm
He has to work on his skating, but listening from training camp they said stone has very much improved a lot since last year, mark power gave him advice and told him what to keep working on when back in the WHL
I know, it changed the draft overview...I have the original email of the players i drafted and i have all of those guys on my team...