GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators vs Montreal Canadiens - 7:30pmET - FRI Jan. 21 2011

LethalLehner wrote:When ever you are in town, contact me. Being a season ticket holder I have access to discounted tickets.

dennycrane wrote:Agreed that a losing atmosphere is there, which is why immediate change is required. What it is, I don't know for sure, but I can't see getting pumped at home AGAIN by a division rival not generating a strong response.

dennycrane wrote:I'd be quite happy to see Brust get a shot on Tuesday.

asq2 wrote:So...I missed this one. Anyone want to offer a recap?

hemlock wrote:
I'll concede your points as a season ticket holder and what you say about the attendance. However, I do not believe that the fans will stay away for too long. A good young team who works their asses off would draw fans as evidenced by other cities (lesser hockey markets in fact). This is a different league than when the Sens patrolled the basement of the standings in the early to mid 90's. It's a league based on youth and energetic up-tempo play. That's what we need to be moving towards. What we have now isn't working. A change towards a more youthful lineup, would I think signal an effort to get better to the fans, who would respond. Of course there will be lean times, but you can't expect to diet to lose weight while not bothering to take the bad things out of your diet right? Something has to give.

I do not for one minute believe that Nabakov, who will certainly be rusty, make much of a difference. It's not like goaltending is our only problem. Our defence is porous and we cannot score. How does a new goaltender fix that? He can't score the goals.

There is no fix for this team this season. There isn't a player alive who'd make a difference on this club because we have so many holes. As far as wanting Melnyk to make move to make the team better now, I can understand as a paying customer being upset, but are you willing to make the team better now at the expense of the future? That seems non-sensical to me.

Flo The Action wrote:

LethalLehner wrote:When ever you are in town, contact me. Being a season ticket holder I have access to discounted tickets.

Nice! I'm thailand at the moment and won't be back till july but will keep it in mind for next year.

spader wrote:

asq2 wrote:So...I missed this one. Anyone want to offer a recap?

22_4_ever wrote:

Something about hearing some drunk man from across the river scream ole ole ole ole at me from 2 rows back 2 minutes into the 1st period that makes me want to clean the stairs with his face...

22_4_ever wrote:

hemlock wrote:
I'll concede your points as a season ticket holder and what you say about the attendance. However, I do not believe that the fans will stay away for too long. A good young team who works their asses off would draw fans as evidenced by other cities (lesser hockey markets in fact). This is a different league than when the Sens patrolled the basement of the standings in the early to mid 90's. It's a league based on youth and energetic up-tempo play. That's what we need to be moving towards. What we have now isn't working. A change towards a more youthful lineup, would I think signal an effort to get better to the fans, who would respond. Of course there will be lean times, but you can't expect to diet to lose weight while not bothering to take the bad things out of your diet right? Something has to give.

I do not for one minute believe that Nabakov, who will certainly be rusty, make much of a difference. It's not like goaltending is our only problem. Our defence is porous and we cannot score. How does a new goaltender fix that? He can't score the goals.

There is no fix for this team this season. There isn't a player alive who'd make a difference on this club because we have so many holes. As far as wanting Melnyk to make move to make the team better now, I can understand as a paying customer being upset, but are you willing to make the team better now at the expense of the future? That seems non-sensical to me.

Remember I'm just one season ticket holder so maybe I'm off, but I spend 8000.00 a year (give or take a little) on tickets and have bought a full season for 15 years now. If by a young rebuilding team you meant something like Chicago of 2 or 3 years ago, LA the last 2 years or Edmonton of this year and likely the next 2, then yes..i'm in..do it now.

Unfortunately we don't have the 2 or 3 years of top 5 picks to use to rebuild the core of this team. I just don't see the rebuilding being as quick as some others...

With that said, I guess it's just my competitive nature and upbringing, but I just can't accept not trying. I understand that they are not going to make the playoffs, but the last 2 games and most nights since Dec 1, 2010 goaltending has been a problem. Tonight was just another example of bad goals going in. Nabakov isn't signed long term....he isn't costing us millions or even draft picks or prospects to acquire. Why Not?

and Dash I understand you saying he isn't coming here...ok so if we put in a waiver request and he refuses to show up, no one gets him..big deal. We are right where we would be if we didn't try.

asq2 wrote:So...I missed this one. Anyone want to offer a recap?

SpezDispenser wrote:How did that Cuss get through the filter Cuss?

hemlock wrote:

I do not for one minute believe that Nabakov, who will certainly be rusty, make much of a difference. It's not like goaltending is our only problem. Our defence is porous and we cannot score. How does a new goaltender fix that? He can't score the goals.