Hoags wrote:Wow we really flamed out at the '07 Stanley Cup Playoff Run
The Sens went to hell in a handbasket after Alfie's goal in OT to sink the Sabres...damn...we all knew what the Cup Finals meant, but it all happened so fast. Andy Mac, Fat Penner, Kunitz, Getzlaf, Perry, Selanne, Pronger, Neidermayer - then the three Fuckateers, Pahlsson, R.Neidermayer and whoever the other guy was (Marchant? or Moen?), then Giguere. Really Cussing bad news for us...we were doomed and we didn't realize it at the time - or I didn't, I thought we had a legitimate shot.
The other kicker was that we didn't trade our 1st that year - which is fine, we got Comrie who should have cost a first rounder without question, but still, that was a weak draft year in hindsight. At least we got Ben Blood, who looks like the only legitimate NHLer out of that draft for us (no offense to O'Brien and Caporusso, but...).
The saving grace - and it's a big one, was that Murray got his own scouts in there for the next draft and we started the quick rebuild with a top 3 pick @ 15 in Karlsson, a beauty of a 2nd round pick in Wiercioch, Z.Smith in the 3rd, Petersson in the 4th and Grant in the 4th as well, then Borowiecki in the 5th. Started us out in the right direction in a big way, managed to shed some of the guys who were either oft-injured, not competing hard enough or too old and we started to piece together the current incarnation of this team - which will only get better from here on out.
Hindsight is good sometimes - in that we got two top 5 D-men at 15 and 9...and Turris...things are starting to look a heck of a lot brighter.