GAME DAY: New York Rangers @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30pm ET - Thu. Feb. 21st, 2013

Via SensChirp: #Sens have a skate scheduled for 10:15 AM this morning.

https://twitter.com/SensChirp/status/304584864034852864

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

shabbs wrote:Please win, thrice...

SOLD!!!

Crown. Royal. On. Ice.

Sure, go ahead. Worked the last two times.

Yessir.

Hoags wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Hard to know what to expect out of the Rags these days. Torts has gotta be even more of a raving lunatic than normal lately.

Makes you wonder how long will the player put up with it. Coaches like that have a finite lifespan, if you're winning its one thing, if you're losing, torts screaming is even more annoying.

I was just thinking that he may be on his last legs over there. The expectation is for this team to win, and win big. Right now they are on track to miss the playoffs. Worse, yet, that last game against the Habs where both teams combined for 8 shots in the first period was just brutal -- heard this sentiment from several places. Boring. Could you imagine if they start failing to sell out?

Briefly caught McGuire on TGOR this morning and he said something interesting -- they are not blocking as many shots as they did last year. Some analysts, last year, wondered if Tortorella was driving them too hard during the regular season. Well, the "Pesky Sens" took them to 7 games so perhaps there was some truth to that. They had a really tough playoff run, Tortorella demands the moon and sun and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the players have just had enough. It's not like a team mate who is out there giving his 100% each night, asking them to do more. It's this short, grumpy Italian guy who gets to wear a suit while they're sweating, and never seems to pass up the opportunity to insult someone, including his own team. "Fonzie" was too nice a guy to have that as this guy's nickname; hes short, he's obnoxious -- let's call him "Grumpy" from now on.

tim1_2 wrote:The over/under is 5 goals. Take the under on that one. 1-0, Sens shootout victory, Silf with the snipe, directly through Lundqvist's heart.

Are you serious? Don't these guys check the injury reports? Sens have scored 4 regulation goals in 4 games since Karlsson went down; Rangers are without Nash. They should have set the O/U at 1.5.

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:The over/under is 5 goals. Take the under on that one. 1-0, Sens shootout victory, Silf with the snipe, directly through Lundqvist's heart.

Are you serious? Don't these guys check the injury reports? Sens have scored 4 regulation goals in 4 games since Karlsson went down; Rangers are without Nash. They should have set the O/U at 1.5.

I was listening to a radio show hosted by gambling degenerates this very past weekend and they said that Vegas doesn't really bother with hockey odds so someone who knows the game enough can clean up.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:The over/under is 5 goals. Take the under on that one. 1-0, Sens shootout victory, Silf with the snipe, directly through Lundqvist's heart.

Are you serious? Don't these guys check the injury reports? Sens have scored 4 regulation goals in 4 games since Karlsson went down; Rangers are without Nash. They should have set the O/U at 1.5.

I was listening to a radio show hosted by gambling degenerates this very past weekend and they said that Vegas doesn't really bother with hockey odds so someone who knows the game enough can clean up.

Over/under is normally 5.5, so they did lower it for this game.

tim1_2 wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:The over/under is 5 goals. Take the under on that one. 1-0, Sens shootout victory, Silf with the snipe, directly through Lundqvist's heart.

Are you serious? Don't these guys check the injury reports? Sens have scored 4 regulation goals in 4 games since Karlsson went down; Rangers are without Nash. They should have set the O/U at 1.5.

I was listening to a radio show hosted by gambling degenerates this very past weekend and they said that Vegas doesn't really bother with hockey odds so someone who knows the game enough can clean up.

Over/under is normally 5.5, so they did lower it for this game.

Tough not to bid the under even at 5.

Yep. I'm betting my house, wife, child, and dog on the under.

tim1_2 wrote:Yep. I'm betting my house, wife, child, and dog on the under.

Book it!

tim1_2 wrote:Yep. I'm betting my house, wife, child, and dog on the under.

I would never bet my dog.

NEELY wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Yep. I'm betting my house, wife, child, and dog on the under.

I would never bet my dog.

Good point. I'll bet my 3 cats instead. They are much more expendable.

tim1_2 wrote:

NEELY wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Yep. I'm betting my house, wife, child, and dog on the under.

I would never bet my dog.

Good point. I'll bet my 3 cats instead. They are much more expendable.

That would be like betting matches in a game of Crazy Eights.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

NEELY wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Yep. I'm betting my house, wife, child, and dog on the under.

I would never bet my dog.

Good point. I'll bet my 3 cats instead. They are much more expendable.

That would be like betting matches in a game of Crazy Eights.

At least the dog cleans up his own vomit. These cats just leave it there for me to step in.

Looks like it's Anderson vs Lundqvist... via BooBoo:

"Craig Anderson is in the starters end. Good test tonite vs. Henrik Lundqvist. #Sens"

https://twitter.com/SunGarrioch/status/304612814532788225

You clearly don't have a cool kitty like Baby King.

The shootout is going to last 447 rounds until Bettman has to declare the game a tie.

Sounds like JOB may be a scratch again.

That's a fine black Front Bum.