GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Montreal Canadiens– 7:30PM EST, Monday, March 22, 2010

SpezDispenser wrote:FFS, is Kuba not playing? I'm starting to have a hard time justifying why we have Filip "The Ghost" Kuba. The Diddler NEVER plays. Hey Kuba, you better be on death's doorstep, it's not as if this is the most important stretch of the year or anything.

Diddle.

wprager wrote:

Kovalfie wrote:
Depending on what happens in the next two weeks we could be depending on a lot more than just one sub 21 year old next year. If the Sens miss the playoffs this year, I wouldn't be shocked to see all the UFAs walk/rights traded: Volchenkov, Cullen, and Sutton, and some dead roster weight traded: Kelly, Ruuttu, Leclaire, Winchester, Kuba?? etc. If the Sens miss the playoffs or don't go deep I wouldn't be shocked to see some new faces here next year. I'm thinking along the lines of Cowen, Lee (guaranteed unless he's traded), Z Smith, perhaps one of Hennessey, Keller, or St. Pierre.

Is there a reason Kovalev is missing from your list of those who could be gone next season? 0 points and -10 since the break. And you call *Kelly* the roster dead weight?

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

It's OK, we have a lot of "depth".

Specially at LW.

SpezDispenser wrote:

N4L wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:It's a good thing I'm not GM because I would have called up Keller, St.Pierre and Hennessy and I would have sent Regin down for an 8 game tune up, Winchester would have sat and Shannon would have sat.

Also sitting: Erik Karlsson. I would give him and pen and a binder and I would have him write down where the right D-man was at all times for both teams and what he's noticing about them. Coming up from Bingo would be Derek Smith.

I believe 100% in rewarding the guys in the AHL for their hard work - and these three guys have been literally carrying the B-Sens for a while now.

Next call up: either Holt or Brodeur. I've seen enough out of Leclaire for this year thanks.

About the only thing I agree with there.

Keller, St.Pierre and Hennessy have been better than Winchester, Shannon and Regin. If it's only because they're playing in the AHL, I would find out. There's no chance these three guys would be playing for my team right now - I don't think it's that hard to even explain - they deserve the chance to come up and play as a line like they're doing in the A and see if they can replicate the success they've had down there.

As for Karlsson, again, this kid will be amazing, but he needs to take a step back and see the game from afar.

And don't think it's just me who thinks that these AHL guys deserve a chance, there's no way they haven't caught Tim Murray's eye - who has Bryan Murray's ear.

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

SpezDispenser wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

It's OK, we have a lot of "depth".

Specially at LW.

Haha, yeah. We have some depth, just not depth that can score 20+ goals.

Kovalfie wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

N4L wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:It's a good thing I'm not GM because I would have called up Keller, St.Pierre and Hennessy and I would have sent Regin down for an 8 game tune up, Winchester would have sat and Shannon would have sat.

Also sitting: Erik Karlsson. I would give him and pen and a binder and I would have him write down where the right D-man was at all times for both teams and what he's noticing about them. Coming up from Bingo would be Derek Smith.

I believe 100% in rewarding the guys in the AHL for their hard work - and these three guys have been literally carrying the B-Sens for a while now.

Next call up: either Holt or Brodeur. I've seen enough out of Leclaire for this year thanks.

About the only thing I agree with there.

Keller, St.Pierre and Hennessy have been better than Winchester, Shannon and Regin. If it's only because they're playing in the AHL, I would find out. There's no chance these three guys would be playing for my team right now - I don't think it's that hard to even explain - they deserve the chance to come up and play as a line like they're doing in the A and see if they can replicate the success they've had down there.

As for Karlsson, again, this kid will be amazing, but he needs to take a step back and see the game from afar.

And don't think it's just me who thinks that these AHL guys deserve a chance, there's no way they haven't caught Tim Murray's eye - who has Bryan Murray's ear.

I wouldn't be shocked to see Keller up next year. St Pierre's +/- is way too low right now considering they'd need him as a third line player most likely.

As for Karlsson, teams have figured out that he's easy to push off the puck and if you put pressure on him he's going to turn the puck over. He's been playing a lot more reserved as a result. He's going to have his ups and downs for the rest of this year but some off-season tune ups in the gym will do him wonders. Again, I wouldn't be shocked to see him paired with Cowen next year. I know, inexperienced, but you may as well get the future playing together and used to one another.

SDH89 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

This really concerns me. Not just for this season, but Michalek has had extensive knee damage earlier in his career. Do we know if it's the same knee/leg?

SDH89 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

This really concerns me. Not just for this season, but Michalek has had extensive knee damage earlier in his career. Do we know if it's the same knee/leg?

SDH89 wrote:

SDH89 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Apparently Michalek's injury is MUCH more serious than we thought.

This really concerns me. Not just for this season, but Michalek has had extensive knee damage earlier in his career. Do we know if it's the same knee/leg?

Just found it for myself, Michalek hurt his right knee earlier in his career, he's now injured with a LEFT leg injury.