GAME DAY: San Jose Sharks @ Ottawa Senators :: 5:00pm ET :: Sun. Oct. 27th, 2013

So we're all in agreement - dump Karlsson?

tim1_2 wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:No-one has mentioned the rather poor effort shabbs did on the GDT.  Two words?  How much are we paying him, anyway?  Can't find him on capgeek.

The Gene has instructed his accountant to put shabbs under "Zamboni repairs." Which explains the broken Zamboni.

Have you guys been to a game this year at the CTC?  Hilarious to see the squeegee kids come out with hoses between periods to flood the rink.

A semi serious comment. A single zamboni means you save one salary, give away half as many tickets/jerseys to kids riding zamboni, and have less time for stupid intermission "entertainment", which means people have more time for concessions.

Win-win-win-win.

wprager wrote:So we're all in agreement - dump Karlsson?

With his albatross contract, we'll have to take a pile back in unwanted salary. Might be able to trade him for Heatley.

LeKing wrote:He would hustle harder if he didn't need to play 30 mins a night because our other 5 defensemen can't create Dung offensively 5 on 5.
Which comes back to my initial point, needs a mobile top 4 defenseman who can handle the puck.

Yep. A righty too please. Wideman maybe, the kid has registered 7 points in 9 games so far I think, might be worth a shot. Him or Ceci.

Ev wrote:Toronto's players skate like the wind? Who besides Kessel and Raymond?

Like the wind was not the word I wanted to use but more like good skaters. JVR, Kadri, Bozak are good skaters.

I doubt there's a trade coming anytime soon. We need to get our Dung together and play as a team - particularly the D. We're a good team (not great) and we need to start playing like it. More mobility on the backend can come from Ceci or Wideman IMO, no need to panic after 10 games.

As I've said, I firmly believe our season starts on Friday. The assessment period begins there for the team and management and coaching staff. If I'm wrong, then there's a trade coming, but I think that's the period we're looking at.

SpezDispenser wrote:
As I've said, I firmly believe our season starts on Friday.

It was a tough opening stretch, but we did let a couple games get away from us. That said, you know T-Bay and Toronto will come back to the pack a bit, so we're still right in the thick of it after having survived a nightmare opening month. Toronto's schedule toughens up considerably starting in December. Assuming we can get our game on track, we should be fine.

Just. Win.

tim1_2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:
As I've said, I firmly believe our season starts on Friday.

It was a tough opening stretch, but we did let a couple games get away from us.  That said, you know T-Bay and Toronto will come back to the pack a bit, so we're still right in the thick of it after having survived a nightmare opening month.  Toronto's schedule toughens up considerably starting in December.  Assuming we can get our game on track, we should be fine.  

Still think there is some serious jam missing up front but that's just me. Ev talked about Ott but another guy who would actually look pretty good in Ottawa would be the other Kassian... this is about the time in a power forwards career that they start to figure it out, well within the next couple years. You look at Downie as a nice example, Bertuzzi back in the day, Neely, etc, etc. Around 23, 24 things click and if they Canucks get impatient at that point if he isn't putting up 25 goals a year that's when a team like the Sens should go after him but it won't be this year.

I think the Sens struggle until someone up front starts scoring some ugly goals from in close. Only really dirty goal I can think of this year was Neil's against the Oilers, everything else seems to be shots from the top of the circle when they have time and space and everyone knows those are not the goals that win games going deep into the season and especially not in the playoffs. Again, need some jam up front if they want to find some consistency.

The nice thing about getting Zack Kassian would be we could send Matt Kassian back the other way, force Zack to take the same #, and save The Euge some $$$ on jerseys!

tim1_2 wrote:The nice thing about getting Zack Kassian would be we could send Matt Kassian back the other way, force Zack to take the same #, and save The Euge some $$$ on jerseys!

Sounds like a plan.

tim1_2 wrote:I actually think Condra's been pretty normal lately, complete with total inability to generate anything resembling offense.

I suggest new lines:

Conacher-Spezza-ZBad
Greening-Turris-Ryan
MacArthur-Grant-Condra
Michalek-Smith-Neil

This crazy whackjob wasn't actually far off.

tim1_2 wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:I actually think Condra's been pretty normal lately, complete with total inability to generate anything resembling offense.

I suggest new lines:

Conacher-Spezza-ZBad
Greening-Turris-Ryan
MacArthur-Grant-Condra
Michalek-Smith-Neil

This crazy whackjob wasn't actually far off.

Is no one going to pump my tires for almost calling the total lineup shuffle? C'mon! I thought it was cool to bring up when you made at least partially correct predictions!!!!!!!

Yah, it is... but that one isn't totally shuffled. You have Spezza on the 1st line, not the 3rd. Smith on the 4th line, Grant on the 3rd. Only center you got right was Turris and even then that's probably the 1st line. Basically, all of your centers are wrong lol.

Why is Spezza's new line called the 3rd line?

Because he has Neil and Conacher there. Sure as hell isn't line #1 lol

So your issue is with the way I ordered my lines, and your assumption that you know which line is considered #1?

I have a feeling P-Mac pretty much intends to roll the new lines and spread out the 5-on-5 ice time.

tim1_2 wrote:So your issue is with the way I ordered my lines, and your assumption that you know which line is considered #1?  

I have a feeling P-Mac pretty much intends to roll the new lines and spread out the 5-on-5 ice time.

Agreed. But while what you say is true I would say that any line that has the Spezzer playing on it is #1. No ifs ands or buts.