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Michallica wrote:
closer to last overall....I thought we were done with those days

Cycle of life in the new NHL, can't stay competitive for that long without some top drafted talent joining the team regularily (unless you're Detroit).

Michallica wrote:

spader wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote: Diddle-a-doodle-doo, the Devils win over the Leafs in OT and the Isles win in OT.

Holy Dung...this is getting good sad.

closer to last overall....I thought we were done with those days

Right now, the best we can hope for is last overall. It's sad, but it gives us something to cheer for. We know that this team should have been better, but hopefully the Sens are putting a good, young team on the ice next year. They might not be great, but they'll build up to being great again. We had a shot (in '03 or '07 depending on who you ask) and missed. Now we finally realize that it's time to regroup and build back into an elite team. The Sens were a perennial threat for over a decade and won't get back to that glory by drafting in the middle of the pack. This is the best thing for the team going forward.

I'm just happy that, the same year we fully realize and accept that major changes are needed, we also find ourselves in a lottery position. It could be worse, we could suck all season, then make a late push just to Diddle up our chances at a good pick. Or we could trade all our rebuilding chips away for a one-dimensional player that has no business on a team that has nothing to surround him with. Anyone know a team like that?

Yep, a bump in the road is the way I feel as well. Could be wrong, but I think we'll be pretty damn exciting next year and we'll make the playoffs in 2 years from now - maybe 3, but I think 2.

SpezDispenser wrote:Yep, a bump in the road is the way I feel as well. Could be wrong, but I think we'll be pretty damn exciting next year and we'll make the playoffs in 2 years from now - maybe 3, but I think 2.

We draft well and we'll be exciting for years to come. This is the first day of the Sens rebuild. I'm feeling pretty good about it. I can't wait for tomorrow.

CockRoche wrote:

Big Ev wrote:

CockRoche wrote:Montreal is going to be in tough tomorrow today against the Islanders.

Playing on back-to-back nights after a game like the one they had against the Bruins is not easy.

Dude. It's the Islanders.

You were saying?

Isles win 4-3 in the shootout.

I don't make predictions often, but when I do they are based on knowing the effects of day-to-day hockey pressures.

They won in a shootout. That doesn't count

spader wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Yep, a bump in the road is the way I feel as well. Could be wrong, but I think we'll be pretty damn exciting next year and we'll make the playoffs in 2 years from now - maybe 3, but I think 2.

We draft well and we'll be exciting for years to come. This is the first day of the Sens rebuild. I'm feeling pretty good about it. I can't wait for tomorrow.

RNH or Landeskog pretty please.

Big Ev wrote:

CockRoche wrote:

Big Ev wrote:

CockRoche wrote:Montreal is going to be in tough tomorrow today against the Islanders.

Playing on back-to-back nights after a game like the one they had against the Bruins is not easy.

Dude. It's the Islanders.

You were saying?

Isles win 4-3 in the shootout.

I don't make predictions often, but when I do they are based on knowing the effects of day-to-day hockey pressures.

They won in a shootout. That doesn't count

Haha. I never actually said the Isles would win, I just said that Monteal would be in tough.

They were.

Interesting article on the physical stress and injuries experienced by goalies:

http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/115793049.html?page=1&c=y

Niklas Backstrom, less than two years removed from left hip surgery to repair a torn labrum, and less than one month removed from fearing he tore it again, was the guinea pig.

The goaltender fell into his butterfly position, which is meant to take away the low part of the net, over and over again.

Up and down. Up and down. Slide left, slide right.

Dripping with sweat, Backstrom finally got a rest. In came Jose Theodore, less than a month removed from his hip injury.

Up and down. Up and down. Left, right.

"How many times do you think we do that? Two hundred, three hundred times a day?" Theodore asked. "With the butterfly, you feel the stress in your hips."

Multiply that daily grind over the course of the season, and the wear and tear on those hips is enormous.

More interesting stuff on equipment size restrictions as well.

Forsberg to be in the line-up tonight...

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=353399

shabbs wrote:Forsberg to be in the line-up tonight...

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=353399

I was just about to post this

He's going to play alongside of Matt Duchene and Milan Hejduk.

I might have to watch for a little bit...just to see...if he still has it...

Forsberg looks good so far; almost like he hasn't lost a step.

Duchene is his centerman and Stewart is on the other side.

Ya I am watching and this last shift has looked really good. So good to see a guy like that keep fighting to play a game he loves.

Awesome, the return of Forsberg!

Dash wrote:Ya I am watching and this last shift has looked really good. So good to see a guy like that keep fighting to play a game he loves.

In his first or second shift, did you see him challenge the defenceman wide and get a weak shot on goal? I didn't think I would see any of that.

Colour me impressed.

I missed the first 5 mins of the game and I haven't been paying much attention But I saw the shift I mentioned He tried to go inside along the boards by the blue lien and got pinned by Nash but still battled well.

My eyes are bleeding watching this game. Not even the three or four fights can make this game remotely entertaining.

What happened to Colorado this season?

Sorry Foppa, I have to switch to the Detroit/Boston game.

Just as I type that Brassard finishes off a nice sequence with a beauty goal. Too little, too late - I'm still changing the channel.

As I am flipping through the NHL Center Ice channels to get to the Detroit game, I see the Islanders are winning 6-0 over the Penguins.

Happy days ahead.

Watching the Isles game now and just heard that they had three of their players hit 20 goals on the season in this game. Interesting.

Tavares, Moulson and Grabner (the Florida Panthers cast-away).

BTW, Grabner has 5 more goals than any Panther player. Combine that move to waive him and the trade they just did with Chicago; I have no idea what Tallon, Santos and Luce are doing.

8-2 for the Islanders now.