GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Pittsburgh Penguins - 7:00pm ET - Thu. Jan. 28. 2010

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Practice lines via Senschirp.ca

Michalek-Spezza-Alfredsson
Foligno-Fisher-Kovalev
Shannon-Regin-Cheechoo (Winchester)
Ruutu-Kelly-Neil

Winnie skated with the team!

On RW, no less. I can't see Cheechoo losing his spot to Winchester, though.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Practice lines via Senschirp.ca

Michalek-Spezza-Alfredsson
Foligno-Fisher-Kovalev
Shannon-Regin-Cheechoo (Winchester)
Ruutu-Kelly-Neil

Winnie skated with the team!

On RW, no less. I can't see Cheechoo losing his spot to Winchester, though.

I don't know if Winnie is quite ready to return but it's a good sign. I do agree with you though. It will probably take a loss or a horrendous performance by someone not named Cheechoo in the bottom 6 for Winnie to get back in.

Well folks my day is almost over so I'll have to either update the links tomorrow for the Game day previews or rely on Prager to update them if anything gets posted today.

Holy cow, Winchester can't crack this lineup - and that says a lot. He's been good for us - very good, but I can't imagine they take Cheechoo out now. Not after his effort level the last few games and the fact that he, Fisher and Foligno appear to have found some chemistry.

Huh...what the heck's gonna happen? I guess I can answer my own question; Winnie will be sitting.

SpezDispenser wrote:Holy cow, Winchester can't crack this lineup - and that says a lot. He's been good for us - very good, but I can't imagine they take Cheechoo out now. Not after his effort level the last few games and the fact that he, Fisher and Foligno appear to have found some chemistry.

Huh...what the heck's gonna happen? I guess I can answer my own question; Winnie will be sitting.

He really should be on the ice, even if the ice is in Broome County.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Holy cow, Winchester can't crack this lineup - and that says a lot. He's been good for us - very good, but I can't imagine they take Cheechoo out now. Not after his effort level the last few games and the fact that he, Fisher and Foligno appear to have found some chemistry.

Huh...what the heck's gonna happen? I guess I can answer my own question; Winnie will be sitting.

He really should be on the ice, even if the ice is in Broome County.

Agreed. Once he and Leclaire are healthy they should both go down for conditioning stints. I'd rather Winnie get some playing time and I'd rather Leclaire "find" his game in Bingo rather than mess with a good thing on the big club.

The ESPN game preview isn't up yet, and that's where we get the side-by-side comparisons. I'm a bit busy at work so I'mnot sure how much I can do to add links until later tonight. Anyone who is an admin can do it too. Just go to the various scoreboards (ESPN, NHL, etc.) for tomorrow's date and if there is a preview link for the game, add it in. The side-by-side is a little more involved, so I don't mind doing it a bit later.

This one never gets old ... plus it's an update on the original one. Warning: shocking gore!

What a fun game. I'll be playing that for a while.

What's the best score, I just got 863. Fun!

960! Right on man!

SpezDispenser wrote:What's the best score, I just got 863. Fun!

982.4

You've got to post your results in something a bit more convincing than ASCII. I got 889 at one point but nothing remotely close to that since. I'll have to give this one a bit more time when I get home.

"Honey, what are you doing in the bathroom so long?"

"Umm, nothing much, just whacking the penguin."

... stunned silence ...

asq2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:What's the best score, I just got 863. Fun!

982.4

That's the best, or that's what you got?

And Regin is down to 3rd line and Fisher is back up.

SpezDispenser wrote:

asq2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:What's the best score, I just got 863. Fun!

982.4

That's the best, or that's what you got?

That's what I got.

Hoags wrote:And Regin is down to 3rd line and Fisher is back up.

They're pretty interchangeable in my view. Regin - Kovalev - Shannon could easily be the 2nd line, while Fisher, Cheechoo, Foligno could easily be the third. That's the fun part right now.

asq2 wrote:That's what I got.

You'll never duplicate that. Since I got 960 I've only come close once - and that was a double clutch where I swung early by accident and still smoked the penguin on the second swing and got lucky that he hit some mines and kept going.