GAME DAY: Washington Capitals @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30pm EST - Mon. Nov. 23rd, 2009 PLUS post game thoughts

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Regin was fantastic. He played wing with Fish and Shannon, correct? He looked great, really great. I thought that maybe there was something there that might be interesting.

Diddle, that's a huge win, a hard one to digest. Really great third period. Really hard nosed effort. I'm...very happy at the effort and the execution. Whew.

Actually Winchester was centering that line initially. They created scoring chances on their first 2 shifts, including the Regin goal. Winchester was rewarded by being busted down to the 4th line.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Regin was fantastic. He played wing with Fish and Shannon, correct? He looked great, really great. I thought that maybe there was something there that might be interesting.

Diddle, that's a huge win, a hard one to digest. Really great third period. Really hard nosed effort. I'm...very happy at the effort and the execution. Whew.

Actually Winchester was centering that line initially. They created scoring chances on their first 2 shifts, including the Regin goal. Winchester was rewarded by being busted down to the 4th line.

Are you suggesting the Sens would have been better off leaving Regin, Winchester and Shannon together? It sure didn't look too good after that goal and through the second period.

SeawaySensFan wrote:Actually Winchester was centering that line initially. They created scoring chances on their first 2 shifts, including the Regin goal. Winchester was rewarded by being busted down to the 4th line.

ddt wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:Actually Winchester was centering that line initially. They created scoring chances on their first 2 shifts, including the Regin goal. Winchester was rewarded by being busted down to the 4th line.

I'd hardly call it being busted down to the fourth line, since he started the game on the fourth line.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

shabbs wrote:Speaking of A-Train, we may get him back for next game... we'll see...

At this point, with the wins racking up, I wouldn't be surprised if they held him out another game even if he's close to returning. No need to rush him back at this point.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Regin was fantastic. He played wing with Fish and Shannon, correct? He looked great, really great. I thought that maybe there was something there that might be interesting.

Diddle, that's a huge win, a hard one to digest. Really great third period. Really hard nosed effort. I'm...very happy at the effort and the execution. Whew.

Actually Winchester was centering that line initially. They created scoring chances on their first 2 shifts, including the Regin goal. Winchester was rewarded by being busted down to the 4th line.

Are you suggesting the Sens would have been better off leaving Regin, Winchester and Shannon together? It sure didn't look too good after that goal and through the second period.

Actually in the second period it was musical centers with Fisher playing with Alfie and Michalek and Spezza dropped to the second line then brought back up and Fisher ended up in between Regin and Shannon.

I'm not suggesting anything, just that Winchester got stiffed.

SeawaySensFan wrote:I'm still pissed that we dropped a 2-0 lead to Fraudeur and his band of boring buddies last time around. They better make up for it tomorrow!

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Whatever works. If it was musical centers it was Clouston trying anything to get his team going. Winchester just wasn't in the combination that ended up working. Do you think Clouston intentionally shuffled the lines making sure Winchester got stiffed?

N4L wrote:

hemlock wrote:

N4L wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Great positives from this game as well. Great battle to get back into that game. 15 shots going into the third and I think we took 18 in the 3rd alone. That's way more like it. Why that didn't happen earlier, I'm not sure.

Carkner was really calm. Picard was great, I'm feeling that he's cutting down on his crappy games and his good games are worth it. I hope he's learning consistency, because when he plays like this, he's great.

Kuba's a rock star. What does he have, 10 points in 3 games? It's something like that. See what happens when you put the puck in the net?

Shannon, Regin and Fisher together was fun, Neil was fun, Ruutu was GREAT, Kelly was good.

Alfie and Spezza weren't their typical selves, they need to bounce back, but if you can turn the tables and come back on the Caps - who are missing Semin, but we're missing A-Train - you have some positives to take out for sure.

Dont know about that... everything is becoming very typical for him. Really think we might see the end of Spezza if he doesnt pick things up.

Somehow I don't see Murray rushing to try and move a big ticket player with issues and a NTC. I don't see how he gets moved, or to whom, if he's got any say (which he most certainly does).

20000% Edmonton. Not now but if Edmonton continues to go down hill like they are, I can see it before that NTC kicks in. Again, we all know that they were and are high on him, or any big name player.

sidstu wrote:wow--the sens are impressing me--that i admit--i like how they battled yesterday--see i give the compliments also


now the habs the are blamming latendresse for some of the problems--sure, why not, lets not blame the guy that pays gomez 7mil for 2 goals--its everybody elses fault but never the fault of the person who formed this team--gainey always gets a pass in montreal--sure --it can't be his fault--no way

ddt wrote:And let's not forget the biggest news from last night, which surprisingly no one has mentioned yet. 3 of the 4 goals cam on deflections, meaning traffic in front of the net, something we've all been screaming for. And the PP goal, even though it wasn't actually deflected, it still shows everything I love about Michalek in a nutshell. He's the main reason they've been getting better results on the PP lately, always in the goalie's face.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

sidstu wrote:wow--the sens are impressing me--that i admit--i like how they battled yesterday--see i give the compliments also


now the habs the are blamming latendresse for some of the problems--sure, why not, lets not blame the guy that pays gomez 7mil for 2 goals--its everybody elses fault but never the fault of the person who formed this team--gainey always gets a pass in montreal--sure --it can't be his fault--no way

I think the Sens are starting to impress a lot of people, Sens fans included.

You do know there's a thread about the Latendress trade eh? You can rant and vent about it in there too.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:His NTC kicks in or kicked in (not sure which) once his "RFA" years are up.

Devo wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

shabbs wrote:Speaking of A-Train, we may get him back for next game... we'll see...

At this point, with the wins racking up, I wouldn't be surprised if they held him out another game even if he's close to returning. No need to rush him back at this point.

I would expect if he is to return early it will be against Columbus on Thursday. I don't see him making the trip to NJ and playing in back to back games to make his comeback.