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MarkStone wrote:Hey it's Ev. My account is corrupt or something. this is my new account

You're already better than Ev.  Welcome!

Welcome, Mark Stone.  I see you live in Hintonburg.  We used to have a really annoying guy around hear named Ev that also lived in Hintonburg.  Hopefully you never run into him.  If you do, never trust any of his predictions.

Hey tim. Is Clarke MacArthur's career done? Doesn't look like it.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Just embedded a youtube stream onto the main page of the forum.  Fingers crossed it works because I'll do this anytime there's a stream via youtube

What a man!!!

MarkStone wrote:also analyzing preseason games against weak lineups is pointless. Puempel scored, all that matters.

Yeah, as much as you want to draw conclusions out of what Varone did, we were facing not even half of a Dung to begin with leafs team.
Not gonna draw too much out of it.
Like you said, puempel scored. It's noticeable, we'll see what else happens.

Remember not that long ago when Puempel was playing in the NHL and playing very, very well? What the heck happened after his ankle sprain? He's not a lost cause yet, he needs direction from Boucher etc.

PTFlea wrote:Remember not that long ago when Puempel was playing in the NHL and playing very, very well?  What the heck happened after his ankle sprain?  He's not a lost cause yet, he needs direction from Boucher etc.

I still think he could be a player. Might have been asked to play in too many different ways and he's having a hard time adjusting his game. It's a different game playing on the top 2 lines and the fourth line. He may no be suited to fourth line style or at least he may not be the type of player who can generate his own offense. Personally I'd like to see what he can do on the wing of pageau.

If puempel gets waived/traded....suddenly that 2011 draft ain't looking so good!

So Karls is captain and Neil is full time assistant. Turris will be the at home assistant and phaneuf the on the road other assistant. I like this. Good call.
Next year when Neil likely retires we'll have someone else take up a position unless they just leave Kyle and Dion as full time. But I like having more assistants. It gives the impression of importance and responsibility.

Yeah, no problem with that set up

The 'A' stands for Alternate Captain, not Assistant.

Varone may have played against s crap team/goalie, but he played the best against them, among a lineup full of players intending to make a case for being in the lineup. He hustled all night long. They put him out to kill a penalty, he does all the work on Puempel's shortie. Given our forward situation (Mac, Lazar, Stone) I'd say he's earned a few games.

On the other hand Paul was picked as their best player in the rookie tournament and was the hardest worker at the DC. That earned him an extended look, most likely.

Read something about Mac but it was a French headline and I didn't click to read the full article but it appears it's not as bad as before. Still think he should hang them up.

Last point -- that hit may not have been all that bad, hard or nasty, but this is an intrasquad game and don't forget that Sieloff was playing D -- that's a long, long way to go to make a hit. You don't make those kinds of hits on team mates; they are not necessary. Plus he's a big guy and he got Mac shoulder to the head and then drove him into the boards. They simply need to get rid of hits like that (up high, against the boards). If the player is too tall to deliver a shoulder hit without head-hunting then he should use his hip. A small player is not allowed to hit below the knees (clipping) regardless of how short he is.

Boo-boo posted the roster. The list of scratches is obviously long (something like 53 in camp) but what I noticed right away was a bunch of Russians: Gimayev, Bashkirov, Megalinski, Lyamin, Mirnov and another name I can't make out. There weren't any Russians in the list of camp invitees and most of those names are really old (like 2003 draft year or earlier). WTH?

They must have reused a roster from an old document and forgot to remove old names.

anyone have a youtube stream? the embeded isn't working for me.

Dzingel playing right side with turris and Hoff. Guess that's an indication he's trying out for the 3rd line RW?

God damnit. The stream I was watching just went down as overtime got underway! Fack!!!!

Two pre-season games and two miss-calls on goals scored both going against the Sens. Ryan's shot was in, there's no doubt about it, except there was no review of the play. And last night a puck bounced off the cross-bar and they counted that as a goal against O'Connor. That tripping call with a minute to go in the third was weak. Meanwhile Phaneuf gets cross-checked in the crease hard enough to fall over his goaltender and no call?

P.S. You can see that I'm in mid-season form

Oh, apparently Canada is still playing, too.

wprager wrote:Two pre-season games and two miss-calls on goals scored both going against the Sens.  Ryan's shot was in, there's no doubt about it, except there was no review of the play.  And last night a puck bounced off the cross-bar and they counted that as a goal against O'Connor.  That tripping call with a minute to go in the third was weak.  Meanwhile Phaneuf gets cross-checked in the crease hard enough to fall over his goaltender and no call?

P.S. You can see that I'm in mid-season form

So are the Sens hating refs.

Flo The Action wrote:Dzingel playing right side with turris and Hoff. Guess that's an indication he's trying out for the 3rd line RW?

He was good too imo