GDT: Sabres @ Sens - Friday, Mar 6th, 7:30pm, TSN5, RDS

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

Excellent idea!

Man...I have a mancrush on stone, Ryan and zbad right now. Stone is such a fantastic player.

There's not one guy in the forward ranks not playing their role.

Starting to dig Wiercioch now too.

Fun team to watch, I look forward to seeing the young players develop further.

Hams. Burgled.

Wiercioch with another fantastic game. It's amazing that the more players play, the more you learn about what their abilities are.

Wiercioch: The more he plays the more you see the development and confidence in his game improve. He is even taking care of his own end with a lot more assertiveness even if he isn't the most physical guy. Good stick as well and using position to win battles.

Cowen: The more he plays the more you see what he lacks. You see a guy who isn't comfortable, doesn't know what to do with the puck, and makes terrible reads or just ignores what's asked of him out there on occasion.

Wiercioch/Ceci look fantastic together but Wiercioch is actually holding up his end of the deal. That pairing won't change until they lose.

SpezDispensed wrote:Man...I have a mancrush on stone, Ryan and zbad right now.  Stone is such a fantastic player.  

There's not one guy in the forward ranks not playing their role.

Starting to dig Wiercioch now too.  

Fun team to watch, I look forward to seeing the young players develop further.

We have 6 players on pace to score 20+ goals this year, with MacArthur and Michalek likely to fall short in the 15~ goal range. Stone, Zibanejad, and Hoffman have all taken that next step. Gotta love that balance.

The only thing more impressive than the forwards right now is the group of 6 D in Ottawa right now. They are playing close to perfect hockey on all 3 pairs.

They were not good to start yesterday but it was fairly predictable. Even with a poor start you can dominate those no names. I wonder if Matt moulson will ask out one day

Ottawa carried the play most of the game without question. That was the perfect game to come back to and the Sens might actually get an opportunity to catch Calgary sleeping on Sunday night based on their play as of late and getting towards the end of a road trip.

Is this real life?

wprager wrote:That was UG-LY!  

I'll take a couple more like that.

Clearly that first game after a long roadie curse is alive and well.  If we were playing any other team it would have been a different story.  Thank goodness it was Buffalo.

Disagree with you on this one. We dominated them like there was no tomorrow.

They had moments in the game where they were in Buffalo's zone for 2, 3 mins. It was frustrating if nothing else at times.

We're going hard after loose pucks and this team literally hasn't done that in years.

NEELY wrote:They had moments in the game where they were in Buffalo's zone for 2, 3 mins.  It was frustrating if nothing else at times.

The puck was bouncing a lot. They were keeping possession but not without having to reach a lot for pucks a settling it down. They had the puck and fought it the same time which made it tough to have any finish. Same goes for. PP and 4 on 4.

Funny you say that, I asked my wife if there was a concert here the night before (she would know more than I would) because the puck wouldn't settle down and guys kept falling. The ice quality looked damn awful.

Aside from all that they did what they needed to do and now they are 3 points back with their playoffs hopes 100% in their own hands. That's a position 99.9% of Sens fans didn't believe was possible.

NEELY wrote:Funny you say that, I asked my wife if there was a concert here the night before (she would know more than I would) because the puck wouldn't settle down and guys kept falling.  The ice quality looked damn awful.

Aside from all that they did what they needed to do and now they are 3 points back with their playoffs hopes 100% in their own hands.  That's a position 99.9% of Sens fans didn't believe was possible.

We're the 99%! We're the 99%!!!

LeCaptain wrote:

wprager wrote:That was UG-LY!  

I'll take a couple more like that.

Clearly that first game after a long roadie curse is alive and well.  If we were playing any other team it would have been a different story.  Thank goodness it was Buffalo.

Disagree with you on this one. We dominated them like there was no tomorrow.

Dominated? Edmonton put up 46 shots on Crawford last night. The could be considered dominating. We spent 19 minutes in their end and got 12 shots first two periods. 36 shots on goal over three periods is nice but hardly "domination", especially when you consider that it's the worst team in the league. Plus we got zero shots on goal on two powerplays.

I don't know what game you were watching, but the Buffalo Sabres are horrible, laughable, almost, yet they had a 2-0 lead and almost 3-0 a couple times. We dominated the territorial play, for sure, but instead of being hard on the puck, shooting from everywhere, banging and crashing, they were playing a very cute game. Looked like a coach playing a game of keepaway against his peewee team at the end of practice.

I get it that they were back home after a long trip and this pretty much was to be expected. As I said, thank heavens the first game was against the Sabres. I fully believe they'll play better tomorrow (if they play like last night, bye-bye faint playoff hopes). I'll very happily take the two points but you won't convince me that that was a dominating performance.

rooneypoo wrote:

SpezDispensed wrote:Man...I have a mancrush on stone, Ryan and zbad right now.  Stone is such a fantastic player.  

There's not one guy in the forward ranks not playing their role.

Starting to dig Wiercioch now too.  

Fun team to watch, I look forward to seeing the young players develop further.

We have 6 players on pace to score 20+ goals this year, with MacArthur and Michalek likely to fall short in the 15~ goal range. Stone, Zibanejad, and Hoffman have all taken that next step. Gotta love that balance.

Yeah, for sure. It's a balance that was sorely lacking in the first 30 games or so with Zibanejad doing previous little, but everything's coming together at this point.

Now...we need some consistency throughout a full year. That's the next big step IMO. No one is expecting these guys to get points every game, but the massive, prolonged streaks that Michalek, Turris, zbad and Mac had will hopefully we aided next year by the newfound and developed.

Still have to continue banging the drum for Pageau, lazar and Condra. Playing fantastic hockey.

wprager wrote:

LeCaptain wrote:

wprager wrote:That was UG-LY!  

I'll take a couple more like that.

Clearly that first game after a long roadie curse is alive and well.  If we were playing any other team it would have been a different story.  Thank goodness it was Buffalo.

Disagree with you on this one. We dominated them like there was no tomorrow.

Dominated?  Edmonton put up 46 shots on Crawford last night.  The could be considered dominating.  We spent 19 minutes in their end and got 12 shots first two periods.  36 shots on goal over three periods is nice but hardly "domination", especially when you consider that it's the worst team in the league.  Plus we got zero shots on goal on two powerplays.

I don't know what game you were watching, but the Buffalo Sabres are horrible, laughable, almost, yet they had a 2-0 lead and almost 3-0 a couple times.  We dominated the territorial play, for sure, but instead of being hard on the puck, shooting from everywhere, banging and crashing, they were playing a very cute game.  Looked like a coach playing a game of keepaway against his peewee team at the end of practice.

I get it that they were back home after a long trip and this pretty much was to be expected.  As I said, thank heavens the first game was against the Sabres.  I fully believe they'll play better tomorrow (if they play like last night, bye-bye faint playoff hopes).  I'll very happily take the two points but you won't convince me that that was a dominating performance.

i dunno. I saw the Sens stay in buffalos zone for huge stretches of the play. I couldn't believe it was still 2-1 after 40.

And it felt like they took 100 shots and had 60 blocked or missed.

Buffalo was dominated for long, long stretches. Heck, there were 4 or 5 minute stretches were the only time I recall them touching he pick was to desperately clear their zone.

Could easily have been 10-2 IMO. They're a disgracefully bad team.