Daniel Alfredsson Appreciation thread

Hoags wrote:We're so lucky to have a captain like Daniel Alfredsson.

The Sens are SOL when he retires

You just don't replace players like that.

Here's hoping we can win the Cup before #11 skates off for the last time ....

That moment when alfie skates off the ice for the last time will be as big as Gretzky skating off but for a sens fan. Going to suck when he leaves not just the points but alfie in general and everything he brings, any one have a clue who becomes the next captain of the sens.

It's all about how you do against the (Doug) Gilmours, (Mats) Sundins and (Andrew) Cassels.''

Thanks for the laugh,Randy.

I posted this one over in the GDT, but maybe it should be here instead. A nice contrast, of sorts, to the older articles.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/32665-Daniel-Alfredsson-to-hit-1000game-mark-Tuesday-against-Panthers.html

sens4win wrote:

Hoags wrote:We're so lucky to have a captain like Daniel Alfredsson.

The Sens are SOL when he retires

You just don't replace players like that.

Here's hoping we can win the Cup before #11 skates off for the last time ....

That moment when alfie skates off the ice for the last time will be as big as Gretzky skating off but for a sens fan. Going to suck when he leaves not just the points but alfie in general and everything he brings, any one have a clue who becomes the next captain of the sens.

Let's not eulogize the guy yet He's got another couple of years, at least.

Then there was the 2007 playoffs. The year we went to the final. That whole season, from the ups and downs I went through personally and the team. Then at Christmas not even looking like we were going to be a playoff team at all ... to changing everything around, then going all the way to the final.

It was unbelievable how we just united. How we took off and gained confidence. We felt that we definitely should beat any team that we played. Obviously, we didn’t go all the way, but we had that feeling. We earned that feeling by the way we played. That season is definitely going to stand out.

The biggest thing from it was coming back to the airport, from Buffalo, after we won the conference championship. It was an afternoon game. It was still light when we got back and thousands of people were waiting for us. That’s when it really hit, that’s when it really sunk in.

That’s when I realized how much emotion there was, how much people cared about us.

We know there’s always 20,000 people at the rink watching the games, but everywhere you went in the whole city during that playoff run was just electrifying. It was kind of touching.

Man, those were the days!! Let's get back there!

The Citizen has an oline Alfie section. Just click on the Alfie 1,000 tab:

http://www.ottawasun.com/

Alfie is GOD.

All praise Alfie.

I wonder if he'll run for Mayor when he retires.

Alfie is so good he can play 1000 games all for one team.

Alfie knew that hitting 1000 points within 1000 games would have resulted in too much greatness intersecting at once causing a massive quantum singularity that would have swallowed up the entire solar system.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Alfie knew that hitting 1000 points within 1000 games would have resulted in too much greatness intersecting at once causing a massive quantum singularity that would have swallowed up the entire solar system.

Unless he knew he'd need 11 points in the last game... since he wears #11... it will all come together tonight... he's that good.

Anyone going to the game Saturday?

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Alfie knew that hitting 1000 points within 1000 games would have resulted in too much greatness intersecting at once causing a massive quantum singularity that would have swallowed up the entire solar system.

Unless he knew he'd need 11 points in the last game... since he wears #11... it will all come together tonight... he's that good.

what's the most he ever got? I think it was 8.. watched that game.. he was ridciulous.

7 points was the most he got. 4 goals 3 assists if I'm not mistaken.

SensGirl11 wrote:7 points was the most he got. 4 goals 3 assists if I'm not mistaken.

Other way around, 3 goals, 4 assists, but yeah, that was awesome. Not his best game either IIRC.

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Alfie knew that hitting 1000 points within 1000 games would have resulted in too much greatness intersecting at once causing a massive quantum singularity that would have swallowed up the entire solar system.

Unless he knew he'd need 11 points in the last game... since he wears #11... it will all come together tonight... he's that good.

Some dude in net for Florida with the league's top save % might have something to say about that though.

This is a very, very special day in Ottawa. This is the quintessential Ottawa Senator player playing in his 1000th game - and not 1000 games of defensive hockey or tough, grinding hockey, a near PPG over 1000 games.

Cheers Alfie and congrats!

I know he won't be happy until he lifts Lord Stanley's Cup, but that might be a couple of years. But with a captain like this, perhaps not even that long.

SpezDispenser wrote:

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Alfie knew that hitting 1000 points within 1000 games would have resulted in too much greatness intersecting at once causing a massive quantum singularity that would have swallowed up the entire solar system.

Unless he knew he'd need 11 points in the last game... since he wears #11... it will all come together tonight... he's that good.

Some dude in net for Florida with the league's top save % might have something to say about that though.

That does not sound like an Alfie Appreciation type post... maybe you should start up a Vokoun Appreciation Thread?



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