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Spezza at practice with the team today. not the black aces

He's been skating for 2 weeks... wonder if he'll be ready for the start of Round 2 now.

Seems they kept this under wraps.... heh heh.

PMac mindfucking the Dung out of the world.

BooBoo's tweets are hilarious:

- Spezza isn't sure he will play this year.
- Spezza says he isn't near ready.
- Spezza says he has been on the ice for 2 weeks.

Heh heh.

Hockeyhero22000 wrote:Spezza at practice with the team today. not the black aces

Further to that: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=423013.

shabbs wrote:BooBoo's tweets are hilarious:

- Spezza isn't sure he will play this year.
- Spezza says he isn't near ready.
- Spezza says he has been on the ice for 2 weeks.

Heh heh.

After practice the Walrus said ""He's a long ways away." I think the first home game -- with the ability to get him more favorable match-ups -- is more likely.

Then, again, the Walrus has been known to exaggerate or prevaricate a little bit.

shabbs wrote:BooBoo's tweets are hilarious:

- Spezza isn't sure he will play this year.
- Spezza says he isn't near ready.
- Spezza says he has been on the ice for 2 weeks.

Heh heh.

What did Spezza say?

A couple of other opinions:

Wayne Scanlan ‏@HockeyScanner

Practice over. Spezza looked pretty dang good. #Sens

AJ Jakubec ‏@AJonSports

Spezza taking part in 1 on 1 battle drills. Looks pretty good. Based on the Sens recent history with injured players, he must be close #Sens

Marc Brassard ‏@mbrassard

35 minutes + tard, Spezza est toujours sur la glace. Il prend maintenant part à un exercice avec contact.

Who's laughing now? Spezza still is...

it's obvious they are just hedging expectations. He'll be back in Game 1 or 2.

Spezza leading the stretch:




Both Cowen and Karlsson led the stretch in their first practice back with the team. In both cases they were playing soon after.

Karlsson led the stretching exercise on April 19 and was in the lineup on the 25th. So that would put Spezza at a Saturday return. If the series starts on Tuesday, then Saturday would be the first home game.

Ev wrote:it's obvious they are just hedging expectations. He'll be back in Game 1 or 2.

If he's ready and close to 80% then they might out him in right away. If he's not 80% then they will probably wait for the first home game.

Greg Wyshynski ‏@wyshynski
Marc Bergevin, Bob Murray, Ray Shero up for NHL GM of the year.

What a Cussing joke, it's just an award for NHL regular season rankings.

Bryan should get an award for what he's done but we'd need to win a division title it seems.

Is the GM award for the GM that most improves his team THIS year..? Bryan Murray didn't do a lot this year, it was more just the previous years of excellent drafting that really paid off now.

tim1_2 wrote:Is the GM award for the GM that most improves his team THIS year..? Bryan Murray didn't do a lot this year, it was more just the previous years of excellent drafting that really paid off now.

Like I just tweeted, the GM award should be based on a 5-year sliding window or something.

Hoags wrote:Greg Wyshynski ‏@wyshynski
Marc Bergevin, Bob Murray, Ray Shero up for NHL GM of the year.

What a Cussing joke, it's just an award for NHL regular season rankings.

Bryan should get an award for what he's done but we'd need to win a division title it seems.

If it is, then where is Bowman?

Hoags wrote:Greg Wyshynski ‏@wyshynski
Marc Bergevin, Bob Murray, Ray Shero up for NHL GM of the year.

What a Cussing joke, it's just an award for NHL regular season rankings.

Bryan should get an award for what he's done but we'd need to win a division title it seems.

I'm not a huge fan of Craig Button but he did tweet this...

CraigJButton: With all due respect to 3 Finalists for @NHL GM of year, Slam Dunk choice should be Bryan Murray. Positioned Ottawa for success. Great moves

General consensus seems to be Bryan Murray should be on that list... we all know what trophy Murray wants. We all want it.

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Is the GM award for the GM that most improves his team THIS year..? Bryan Murray didn't do a lot this year, it was more just the previous years of excellent drafting that really paid off now.

Like I just tweeted, the GM award should be based on a 5-year sliding window or something.

Agreed. And as pointed to you by The Button man himself, so does EJ Hradek