Carolina @ Ottawa - April 16, 2013 - The Return of Cowen!!

Need a new thread going.

I'll be at the game tonight. Hopefully they are focussed for tonight's matchup. Carolina's special teams are bad, and they are 28th in the league in goals for. They are also still without Cam Ward. They are coming off a 4-2 win over the Bs, although they lost 7 in a row before that.

No reason not to win tonight...Carolina has nothing left to play for.

Nope, need to really stick it to the Canes, lost to them 2 times already this year, 3 whole days off, they need this win and they need it bad.

GAME DAY! Didn't realize they were playing today. Gotta get a win to keep pace. Habs and Bruins are struggling and are idle tonight. Leafs are heating up and face the Caps tonight.

Wonder if we'll see the same lineup that was planned for Boston? The only change I could see happening would be to flip Kassian/Latendresse again. Unless PMac feels this will be a physical game... which I don't expect it to be.

GO SENS GO!!!

Scoreboard watching tonight:

Panthers @ Islanders: the Isles are 1 point back of Ottawa and, although the Sens hold one game in hand, that's the postponed game against the Bruins.

Rangers @ Flyers: the Rangers are 2 points back and have played the same number of games as the Sens. Flyers coming off a big win over the Habs; hopefully they saved some of that for the Rangers. If the Flyers lose in regulation their reverse magic number will be down to 1.

Lightning @ Jets: recall that the Sens magic number is 9 (technically only against the Jets; there's still a mathematical chance for the Sabres, Devils and Flyers to catch them) and a regulation loss by the Jets will whittle it down to 7.

Leafs @ Caps: Sens are 5 points back of the Leafs with 1 game in hand (the aforementioned Boston game). A regulation loss by Toronto combined with a win by the Sens will still leave them 3 points back with one more head-to-head game coming April 20. And of course before they play the Leafs next Saturday, the Sens will host Washington on Thursday, so it'll be interesting how the two Ontario teams do against the Caps, before facing off on HNIC.

I imagine we should see Latendresse in and Kassian out. Games against the Canes normally aren't that physical.

shabbs wrote:GAME DAY! Didn't realize they were playing today. Gotta get a win to keep pace. Habs and Bruins are struggling and are idle tonight. Leafs are heating up and face the Caps tonight.

Wonder if we'll see the same lineup that was planned for Boston? The only change I could see happening would be to flip Kassian/Latendresse again. Unless PMac feels this will be a physical game... which I don't expect it to be.

GO SENS GO!!!

Leafs play a very physical game. What are you talking about? They lead the league in both hits and blocked shots. That's the Carlyle way.

Edit: the also lead the league in giveaways, by a fairly wide margin (492 versus 414 for the Isles -- that's nearly 2 extra giveways per game -- ftl).

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:GAME DAY! Didn't realize they were playing today. Gotta get a win to keep pace. Habs and Bruins are struggling and are idle tonight. Leafs are heating up and face the Caps tonight.

Wonder if we'll see the same lineup that was planned for Boston? The only change I could see happening would be to flip Kassian/Latendresse again. Unless PMac feels this will be a physical game... which I don't expect it to be.

GO SENS GO!!!

Leafs play a very physical game. What are you talking about? They lead the league in both hits and blocked shots. That's the Carlyle way.

Why you talking about the Leafs? I'm taking about Carolina. Tonight.

tim1_2 wrote:I imagine we should see Latendresse in and Kassian out. Games against the Canes normally aren't that physical.

Prager... this.

shabbs wrote:

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:GAME DAY! Didn't realize they were playing today. Gotta get a win to keep pace. Habs and Bruins are struggling and are idle tonight. Leafs are heating up and face the Caps tonight.

Wonder if we'll see the same lineup that was planned for Boston? The only change I could see happening would be to flip Kassian/Latendresse again. Unless PMac feels this will be a physical game... which I don't expect it to be.

GO SENS GO!!!

Leafs play a very physical game. What are you talking about? They lead the league in both hits and blocked shots. That's the Carlyle way.

Why you talking about the Leafs? I'm taking about Carolina. Tonight.

Oops, got carried away. Looking forward to HNIC, I guess

How sweet would it be in the Rags and Isles lose, and we pick up 2 pts? Fairly sweet, I'd say.

At this point, I'd say the only spot we don't want to finish is 8th or 5th. 5th is pretty much out of the question at this point, but 8th is still a very real possibility.

wprager wrote:Scoreboard watching tonight:

Panthers @ Islanders: the Isles are 1 point back of Ottawa and, although the Sens hold one game in hand, that's the postponed game against the Bruins.

Rangers @ Flyers: the Rangers are 2 points back and have played the same number of games as the Sens. Flyers coming off a big win over the Habs; hopefully they saved some of that for the Rangers. If the Flyers lose in regulation their reverse magic number will be down to 1.

Lightning @ Jets: recall that the Sens magic number is 9 (technically only against the Jets; there's still a mathematical chance for the Sabres, Devils and Flyers to catch them) and a regulation loss by the Jets will whittle it down to 7.

Leafs @ Caps: Sens are 5 points back of the Leafs with 1 game in hand (the aforementioned Boston game). A regulation loss by Toronto combined with a win by the Sens will still leave them 3 points back with one more head-to-head game coming April 20. And of course before they play the Leafs next Saturday, the Sens will host Washington on Thursday, so it'll be interesting how the two Ontario teams do against the Caps, before facing off on HNIC.

Go Panthers! Go Flyers! Go Jets! Don't really care about Leafs/Caps.

shabbs wrote:

wprager wrote:Scoreboard watching tonight:

Panthers @ Islanders: the Isles are 1 point back of Ottawa and, although the Sens hold one game in hand, that's the postponed game against the Bruins.

Rangers @ Flyers: the Rangers are 2 points back and have played the same number of games as the Sens. Flyers coming off a big win over the Habs; hopefully they saved some of that for the Rangers. If the Flyers lose in regulation their reverse magic number will be down to 1.

Lightning @ Jets: recall that the Sens magic number is 9 (technically only against the Jets; there's still a mathematical chance for the Sabres, Devils and Flyers to catch them) and a regulation loss by the Jets will whittle it down to 7.

Leafs @ Caps: Sens are 5 points back of the Leafs with 1 game in hand (the aforementioned Boston game). A regulation loss by Toronto combined with a win by the Sens will still leave them 3 points back with one more head-to-head game coming April 20. And of course before they play the Leafs next Saturday, the Sens will host Washington on Thursday, so it'll be interesting how the two Ontario teams do against the Caps, before facing off on HNIC.

Go Panthers! Go Flyers! Go Jets! Don't really care about Leafs/Caps.

Go jets?

SpezDispenser wrote:

shabbs wrote:

wprager wrote:Scoreboard watching tonight:

Panthers @ Islanders: the Isles are 1 point back of Ottawa and, although the Sens hold one game in hand, that's the postponed game against the Bruins.

Rangers @ Flyers: the Rangers are 2 points back and have played the same number of games as the Sens. Flyers coming off a big win over the Habs; hopefully they saved some of that for the Rangers. If the Flyers lose in regulation their reverse magic number will be down to 1.

Lightning @ Jets: recall that the Sens magic number is 9 (technically only against the Jets; there's still a mathematical chance for the Sabres, Devils and Flyers to catch them) and a regulation loss by the Jets will whittle it down to 7.

Leafs @ Caps: Sens are 5 points back of the Leafs with 1 game in hand (the aforementioned Boston game). A regulation loss by Toronto combined with a win by the Sens will still leave them 3 points back with one more head-to-head game coming April 20. And of course before they play the Leafs next Saturday, the Sens will host Washington on Thursday, so it'll be interesting how the two Ontario teams do against the Caps, before facing off on HNIC.

Go Panthers! Go Flyers! Go Jets! Don't really care about Leafs/Caps.

Go jets?

I want the Jets in and Rags out.

Yeah, but right now the mortal enemy is 9th place, right? Anything that happens away from that doesn't matter...yet