The good news is he did skate in a regular sweater today which means he has been cleared for contact. Chris Neil spoke after practice and said he’s good to go. There is a chance he plays in Washington tomorrow night.
If MacLean does decide to insert Chris Neil, I would expect Bobby Butler to be the odd man out but we'll have to wait and see what the coach decided tomorrow.
Filip Kuba did not skate and is still considered as questionable for tomorrow night.
- As I’ve mentioned before, the Sens are expected to have a new scoreboard up at Scotiabank Place before the New Year. As a fan that attends almost every game, I can not tell you how excited I am about this. It will definitely add to the in-game experience and will look great on the organization with the NHL All Star Game here in late January.
- Defenceman Matt Carkner is in Binghamton for a conditioning stint and according to BSens beat reporter Joy Lindsay, is expected to play in a couple games this weekend and then again on Wednesday. Carkner will be paired with Patrick Wiercioch when the Binghamton Senators take on the Manchester Monarchs tonight.
- While on the subject of Bingo, the Senators have traded a 7th round pick for Rob Klinkhammer from the Chicago Blackhawks organization. Klinkhammer quickly assumes the title of best name in the organization.
- The Derick Brassard rumours continue to float around but as I’ve said before here and on Twitter, money is an obstacle. The Sens would love to add Brassard as a second line centre but will have trouble taking on his contract which comes in at a cap hit of $3.2 mil for the next couple seasons. Make no mistake about it, the Ottawa Senators are on a budget this season, so if a deal is going to be struck, some money will have to go Columbus’s way. With Ottawa’s blueline about to become very crowded, I would speculate that Murray and the Sens are trying to include a defenceman in a deal.
I hope the Sens can trade a defenseman... they need room especially with Carkner on his way back.. they can't rotate 2 D in and out of the lineup.
I hope tomorrow is not the night that the Caps come out of their slump. It happened last year.... but come on boys... take it too them.
I am still not seeing the point in Brassard.
He is another experiment on a long list of experiments we already have,
Filatov, Regin, DaCosta, Daugavins, Butler,
do we know that he will be better than any of them, has he proven it?
Lets roll with these guys for this year, and not have to worry about paying him 3.2 next year, and have to "FIT" him into our top 6 b/c we are paying him too much to be in the bottom 6,
again just my opinion
Really 47 points last year...big deal?
Butler had 21 points in 31 games in his rookie year, are you sure he is better than him?
If he cannot crack the lineup on one of the worst teams in the NHL, what makes you think he could crack ours?
I am saying we have enough experiments, and do not want to "have to play him" next year b/c we are paying him 3 Mil,
that all
Other than basic hockey trades where we're moving out spare parts, vets, expiring contracts, bigger contracts etc of course.
Greening - Spezza - Filatov
Alfy - Zibby - Michalek
Smith - Regin - Daug
Neil - Foligno - Silfverberg
Condra - Da Costa - Butler
Winchester then add Brassard
That's way too many -- 17 forwards....
I believe Konopka gets traded at the deadline. A contending team could make good use of him in the playoffs.
I can't see too many of the Sens current forwards traded at the deadline as they, right now, have nothing in Binghamton to bring up other than Petersson or Hoffman..
http://tsn.ca/nhl/teams/players/bio/?id=7295
Don't get too excited though - hockeyprospects ' page on him is blank.
Cool name, but clearly a depth signing for Bingo. (Not that that's a bad thing.)
Assuming the return is not insulting, all of this guys will go at the deadline (if they're not gone already):
Konopka
Winchester (98% chance anyway)
Kuba
Carkner
Even Auld might go.
Unless Murray feels letting one of those guys go might hurt the team morale, they're gone by the deadline. Or I guess if he's already swung a bunch of trades and we need the bodies to complete the season - which is unlikely.
I say 98% for Winchester since there's about a 2% chance he plays his way into our future plans or that we get a combination of offers on other guys that leaves Winnie as our best 4th line center.
Greening - Spezza - Filatov
Alfy - Zibby - Michalek
Smith - Regin - Daug
Neil - Foligno - Silfverberg
Condra - Da Costa - Butler
Winchester then add Brassard
That's way too many -- 17 forwards....
I believe Konopka gets traded at the deadline. A contending team could make good use of him in the playoffs.
I can't see too many of the Sens current forwards traded at the deadline as they, right now, have nothing in Binghamton to bring up other than Petersson or Hoffman..
It does help that 6 of those forwards contracts are up at the end of the year ...Petersson isnt ready yet and Hoffman is a lifer AHL'er ...I dont see Z being traded he has on-ice presence for all the young talent coming next year he will be needed ..
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bsenshockeylive
It would be great for a 67s star to become a star for the Senators. (Konopka notwithstanding .)
do you have the highlights?
It was broadcast on SportsNet so I assume they'll have the highlights either in their morning loop or on their website.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/video/latest/OHL-WSR-3-OTT-4-OT/
67s won in OT and Prince played into the winner as well - so well worth a look.
(Chirp - hope you're cool with me posting the link)
Saw some klinken hammers on sale at Canadian Tire for $3.99 today. Down from $24.99.... A good deal, everyone should grab one.
Yost has on his post today about the deal with the BJ's for Brassard being sticky due to the salary as you and everyone else has reported but he also mentions that the Sens have "been plenty outspoken about their willingness to bring in a big-name free agent as early as next off-season"
This is the first I have heard such ramblings, what is your take on that?
Apart from Parise, there is only Penner, Prust and Jones that I would think would even fit that category. I know Semin is also UFA but I would hope the Sens would not even venture that route.
That was the first I'd heard of that as well. Plenty have speculated that Ottawa would be well positioned to take a run at a UFA next summer but as far as the organization being outspoken about it? I'm not so sure.
I attended a couple hot stove sessions last year where Murray talked about how he'd like to add a top six UFA at some point but that's all I've heard on the subject and that was prior to last off season.
Yeah it would also be really nice that in 2013 -- Sens can draft his linemate -- Sean Monahan. But to do that.. they will probably have to finish in the lottery next season.
NO to Penner. Sens will regret that... He did basically nothing in Edmonton and is doing nothing in LA. Murray also did say -- at a Season Ticket holders meeting.. that if he signs or trades for any player.. it will be one under 30...
I may be in the minority, but I still believe in Regin, after a rough year last year, he started strong, and won the 2C position, and even with him out, now one has taken it away.
I remember 2 years ago, that he had me off my seat more than a few times.
After him we have DaCosta, and others still vying for a spot on the top 6 with Butler, Filatov and even Daugavins. Then next year Zibby is back Silverber, so to add an experiment that will cost us over 6 mil, is really not worth the risk.
And I am really sick of playing players not on merit, but on contracts, and we know the list of those players is endless here in Ottawa.
Have a great Saturday all,
and here is to Filatov, filling the net tonight
Go Sens Go!!!
1) It's terrible writing.
2) They can't have been that "plenty outspoken" if the only place any of us have heard about it is from Yost's blog on HockeyBuzz.
Most of us keep a good handle on various websites about the sens and whilst I agree with chirp's assessment that the sens are well placed to take a run at any UFA this year they must have been "plenty inspoken" about it considering hardly any of us have heard anything about it.
Yost should stick to opinion pieces at which he is OK and stop trying to steal the thunder from his site's leading father figure and doofus Eklund. Any rumour or perceived insider information from that site is as close to worthless as it's possible to be.
agreed no word from the Sens,
but on top of that, can we name one successful UFA we have had?
Off the top of my head I cannot think of a clear win in a UFA from any team, (I know if we dig we will find a few but they do not come cheap, so it is and expensive risk) but there are more than plenty teams that have gambled and lost on UFA.
I say there is a reason they become a UFA.
I say continue to build from the draft, and look for possible win/win trades, vs the UFA route
IMO of course
Agree that Penner is overvalued but he is under 30 as are all the players I mentioned.
I had never really thought about Parise much prior to this but realizing that the Sens have put themselves into a cap position and can show a UFA that they have a good number of pieces to compete in the near future, it might not be to far off of a possiblity. His agent has said that he would test the market. What would be a reasonable pitch to bring him in?
Would definately make Alfie's skills being lost when he retires a slight bit more bearable....
To be honest, I'm still waiting to see it, and now think I was wrong on him. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Sens allow him to go the the KHL. I hope I'm wrong (again?), and maybe you guys see it differently?
If it doesn't pan out at least both sides gave it a shot.
I never understood those that thought he was going to score 20 or 30 goals this season (as some predicted on here). He came here with less than 50 games of NHL experience, 6 goals (3 in his first game). I don't know what people expected.
He's a prospect, let's treat him as such.
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