GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Carolina Hurricanes - 5:00pm ET - Sun. Jan. 10th, 2010

wprager wrote:

marakh wrote:

asq2 wrote:**** it, I'm hopping onto the Granlund wagon.

Lol. I'm gonna try Pulkkinen

Man, I feel so out of it. I don't even know who you're talking about. This year's draft or next year's?

This year's. Another good Finn. See Avatar

I'm watching GB/ARZ. Awesome game.

You can't expect a goalie to save everything, that's a given. What separates an elite goalie (something Ottawa has not had yet) and your average goalie, is the ability to make the save you should have. Obviously if the goal is scored because there's absolutely no defence helping you out and leaves their check wide open, then the goalie can't get all the blame. Then you get the fluke goals, which will happen to every goalie once or twice in their career - in Ottawa it seems it is every game, sometimes more than once. Then you get the goals that are pure goal scorer's goals where sometimes you cannot expect a great goalie to even make the save but the great ones will often rob the shooter.

What I've noticed is the Sens goalies over-committing to a shot, sliding way out of the crease and slow getting back into position. Laziness. The defence has also been diffuse and lost.

And lastly, not scoring is obviously hurting the team. The goalies would love the team to score and ease the pressure off them.

Not a terrible road game - need Fisher and Kovy to find the back of the net if we're going to have any chance.

Really like seeing Karlsson out there - getting a ton of ice time which is only going to make him better, faster.

wprager wrote:By the way, two-hour season premiere of Chuck tonight!

January season premiere? When does it run until? Most shows are into a dozen eps now.

I just want the final season of the Tudors to air.....and Penn and Teller BS could come back, that would be nice!

And I expected 2 wins

hemlock wrote:

wprager wrote:By the way, two-hour season premiere of Chuck tonight!

January season premiere? When does it run until? Most shows are into a dozen eps now.

I just want the final season of the Tudors to air.....and Penn and Teller BS could come back, that would be nice!

Final season of Lost starts in February, so...

It's 20-ish episodes, once per week, so 20 weeks, until may/june.

There are the Fall shows, and the Winter shows.

Granlund is said to be a Saku Koivu clone? I always though Koivu could be a very good player if he was another inch or two, and 20 lbs bigger. Pulkkinen is a little bigger, and he's a LW to boot.

I'm with you, Marakh.

Granlund is more like a Finnish Patrick Kane.

wprager wrote:Granlund is said to be a Saku Koivu clone? I always though Koivu could be a very good player if he was another inch or two, and 20 lbs bigger. Pulkkinen is a little bigger, and he's a LW to boot.

I'm with you, Marakh.

PPulkkinen was injured during the WJC, so his stocks could drop and fall to ours.

hemlock wrote:

wprager wrote:By the way, two-hour season premiere of Chuck tonight!

January season premiere? When does it run until? Most shows are into a dozen eps now.

I just want the final season of the Tudors to air.....and Penn and Teller BS could come back, that would be nice!

It's a treat that we are getting a S3 at all. It's on NBC and originally they were planning it for after the Olympics. Remember that Leno is chewing up one third of the prime time with his daily antics. They were bumped up to a January start because they canceled a couple of shows and Leno is not doing well. They've had very little time to promote it, and the Olympics aren't going to help either. But even if it doesn't last past this season, the first two have already been well worth the ride.

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F-ing boo hoo hoo. That's so harsh that we lost both of those games and scored 1 goal. So harsh.

Fact that we're talking tv shows on 6th page of GDT is kinda sad

I'm looking forward to the premiere more than I've looked forward to any game for a long time. Is that sad? I get to watch Chuck with my wife and we both enjoy it (she's not into hockey). The visual imagery can be quite stimulating, too.

1 goal in two games. That the goaltending has been bad only compounds things.

Fisher goalless since the engagement (I think). He will be known as Mike Underwood until he scores.

That there is a page 6 of a GDT is saying something, too.

This is getting painful, there are many problems with this team that go past our injuries.

Tonight's game epitomized all the problems I've seen with the Sens this year.

1. We badly outplayed the Canes in the first, outshot them to Dung - yet no goals.

2. We finally net one in the second, yet very shortly afterwards the Canes tie it up.

3. Weak goal deflates the team.

4. Only down one goal heading into the third and we just can't seem to be able to generate any solid scoring chances -- all perimeter shots.

All four of these aforemetioned points have become a daily routine with this team, it's become much too predictable -- and painful.

Well let's hope we don't keep feeling sorry for ourselves and show up in ATL.