2014 Ottawa Senators Off Season Talk

LeKing wrote:WHere's Peter Mueller these days? That's the perfect player for Ottawa.

Michallica wrote:A glimpse of spezza's last moments at his last home game.....?



lol some fans are hilarious.  'we love you jason!' 'sign my sweater andy!'

NEELY wrote:

Hoags wrote:

NEELY wrote:And they are probably letting Spezza, Michalek, and Hemsky go along with at least another 2 mil on the back end.  Would you not call that a very similar situation?

It is all the same.  Money out, money in, total $ spent on salary not much different from previous year.

Hopefully the team will be better.

Well that's exactly my point right now.  I don't agree with a lot of what Melnyk says but in terms of spending right now he's right, throwing money out the window for guys who are just available and don't really have a fit in Ottawa is stupid.  They will be spending money on a UFA and they probably have a target (I know one is Stastny) and if the deal they make for Spezza involves wingers and D then they have money to use to get the center they need.

Wouldn't it be something if the Sens could walk away with a guy like Boedker, Samulsson, and a 1st?  Something along those lines?  Trade for Stewart.  Go out sign Stastny.  Salary would end up being around 56-57 mil, right where the Sens and Melnyk wanted to be.  Team is also way better than it was in game 82 as well.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Ev wrote:Spezza bounced back as the year went on, and if he's given the chance to next year, and he stays healthy, he will bounce back to being one of the top 10 - 15 players in the league. If the Sens want to compete he's going to be a very important part of that, if the Sens don't want to compete they'll move him and we're in for a few rough years.

  

We should get a nice close-up view since he's probably headed to The Big Smoke.

LeKing wrote:I don't care if we replace the Spezza line with kids from Bingo who will come in, follow the system and give 100% every night.
When I watch Stamkos, Krejci, Kopitar, Getzlaf, Couture etc all back check like crazy it just makes me sick to have talented lazy players on this team.

sandysensfan wrote:

NEELY wrote:

Hoags wrote:

NEELY wrote:And they are probably letting Spezza, Michalek, and Hemsky go along with at least another 2 mil on the back end.  Would you not call that a very similar situation?

It is all the same.  Money out, money in, total $ spent on salary not much different from previous year.

Hopefully the team will be better.

Well that's exactly my point right now.  I don't agree with a lot of what Melnyk says but in terms of spending right now he's right, throwing money out the window for guys who are just available and don't really have a fit in Ottawa is stupid.  They will be spending money on a UFA and they probably have a target (I know one is Stastny) and if the deal they make for Spezza involves wingers and D then they have money to use to get the center they need.

Wouldn't it be something if the Sens could walk away with a guy like Boedker, Samulsson, and a 1st?  Something along those lines?  Trade for Stewart.  Go out sign Stastny.  Salary would end up being around 56-57 mil, right where the Sens and Melnyk wanted to be.  Team is also way better than it was in game 82 as well.

IF he would have spent on Alfie last season.. still traded for Ryan and signed McArthur... that would have been two very good top lines for the entire season at about 5.5-6M more in salary... Which would have been offset by playoff revenue.    

Alfie-Spezza-Michalek
Ryan-Turris-McArthur

So you think those top 6 could have helped the Sens to 3 more wins... They missed the playoffs by 5 bloody points after a terrible season..  I get the defense was bad... but that top 6 would have offset that bad defense with more goals..

I would most likely be going to playoff games...   Now I'm just watching it on TV.

NEELY wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if some team out of no where makes an offer for Spezza too, like Columbus or Washington.

TheAvatar wrote:

NEELY wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if some team out of no where makes an offer for Spezza too, like Columbus or Washington.

A duo of Spezza and Ovie would be very potent. You pair them with a defense-minded forward and it could be very interesting.

SpezDispenser wrote:If Brad Richards gets bought out, that would be an interesting idea for 2C.  He's won it all obviously and looks good right now.

wprager wrote:Why would Richards get bought out?  He's had a rebound season -- much better under Vigneault -- and already has a goal and two helpers in the playoffs.  

sandysensfan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:If Brad Richards gets bought out, that would be an interesting idea for 2C.  He's won it all obviously and looks good right now.

My guess is he would never sign with a Canadian team.  How many elite NHL Cdn born players sign to play in Canada?