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Flo The Action wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

wprager wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

wprager wrote:Who needs to go to games when all 82 are on TV?  Who needs to go to concerts when you have MP3s and streaming music services.  Live is over-rated.  And over-priced.

Unless it's Colin James.  Damn, I missed him back in April.

So I guess I won't be swing you to any show prags if I ever come play ottawa? 😉

I can understand if that's not your thing but I definitely need a responsive scene fir when I work on projects and to go out and enjoy touring bands
BTW prags, I'm no Colin James. ...

What do you play?

I'm. Guitarist and my current project fall into the powerpop category. Think if the ramones and the beach boys got mached together.

I only started enjoying power pop recently. Big Star are good but grossly over-rated, IMO. Smithereens really check both the power and pop boxes. I like Badfinger as well. And I admire Green Day's recent Beatles/power pop leanings too.

I really love big star but I think they had more an effect on alt rock scene than powerpop. Powerpop is such an all incompesating term to be honest that it can mean early cheap trick just like it can mean late 70's NYC punk. It's a hard genre to fit into a narrow niche. I usually like to reference the band The Records as the prototypical powerpop sound. you could easily hear them and the their style in one way or another in the sounds of most powerpop bands. https://youtu.be/BL7eAHCIiqY (If anyone is interested)

To me there's probably more edge in what I play as there are strong punk influences in the music but it's about the harmonies on top that make it veer away from traditional punk.


Ok.... Back to hockey!

Good call. I was going to mention Cheap Trick.

I've met Cheap Trick.

I was at the game vs Montreal on Saturday and left very unimpressed. I keep telling myself it's only exhibition.

Live at Budokan.  Wow, that brings back memories.  I was working at a summer camp in the Laurentians.  One of the guys on staff (whom I knew before camp) was a dead ringer for Rick Nielsen, especially when he wore a baseball hat.

tim1_2 wrote:I was at the game vs Montreal on Saturday and left very unimpressed.  I keep telling myself it's only exhibition.

I'm sorry for you since you paid $$ to see that (or did you luck into some freebies?) but that's the thing about pre-season. Vets and guys guaranteed a lineup spot don't really want to go all out (just ask MacArthur) and you often have the visiting team icing a barely NHL-calibre lineup. Because of the WCH the minimum NHL experience quotas were removed this year, which explains the Habs lineup on Saturday (and, don't forget, we sent a pretty inexperienced lineup to Montreal and beat them in OT).

It's only exhibition. We have not seen Mark Stone yet. We didn't give up 40 shots on goal; we didn't quite get to under 30 but at 32 shots without Methot/Phaneuf in the lineup I think that was an improvement. We went 1/3 on the PP and 3/4 on the PK. Boucher was able to introduce the team to his insistence on discipline by benching both a veteran (and highest paid player) and a young guy for a period -- great that it happened in pre-season. Discipline extends to a lot of different areas. Let's see how he handles undisciplined penalties. Maybe we finally have a coach who doesn't talk about accountability but just goes about and does it.

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:I was at the game vs Montreal on Saturday and left very unimpressed.  I keep telling myself it's only exhibition.

I'm sorry for you since you paid $$ to see that (or did you luck into some freebies?) but that's the thing about pre-season.  Vets and guys guaranteed a lineup spot don't really want to go all out (just ask MacArthur) and you often have the visiting team icing a barely NHL-calibre lineup.  Because of the WCH the minimum NHL experience quotas were removed this year, which explains the Habs lineup on Saturday (and, don't forget, we sent a pretty inexperienced lineup to Montreal and beat them in OT).  

It's only exhibition.  We have not seen Mark Stone yet.  We didn't give up 40 shots on goal; we didn't quite get to under 30 but at 32 shots without Methot/Phaneuf in the lineup I think that was an improvement.  We went 1/3 on the PP and 3/4 on the PK.  Boucher was able to introduce the team to his insistence on discipline by benching both a veteran (and highest paid player) and a young guy for a period -- great that it happened in pre-season.  Discipline extends to a lot of different areas.  Let's see how he handles undisciplined penalties.  Maybe we finally have a coach who doesn't talk about accountability but just goes about and does it.

Oh yes, I paid for it. I knew it was a recipe for disaster when I saw a lot of Sens regulars and an entirely AHL Montreal lineup. Chabot and Varone looked good, and the rest was forgettable.

Sens/Jets tonight at 8.

PTFlea wrote:I've met Cheap Trick.

nice! Rick Nielsen is one of my all time favorite guitarist.
was it when the stage fell on top of them at the outdoor game?

tim1_2 wrote:I was at the game vs Montreal on Saturday and left very unimpressed.  I keep telling myself it's only exhibition.

it would be easy to say that if the line-up we were facing wasn't atrociously worst than ours. guess we can notch it to kids being hungry.
i'm looking forward to a fuller line-up and ryan and brass gelling together (it's gotta happen).

wprager wrote:Live at Budokan.  Wow, that brings back memories.  I was working at a summer camp in the Laurentians.  One of the guys on staff (whom I knew before camp) was a dead ringer for Rick Nielsen, especially when he wore a baseball hat.

one of my favorite live album ever.

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:I was at the game vs Montreal on Saturday and left very unimpressed.  I keep telling myself it's only exhibition.

I'm sorry for you since you paid $$ to see that (or did you luck into some freebies?) but that's the thing about pre-season.  Vets and guys guaranteed a lineup spot don't really want to go all out (just ask MacArthur) and you often have the visiting team icing a barely NHL-calibre lineup.  Because of the WCH the minimum NHL experience quotas were removed this year, which explains the Habs lineup on Saturday (and, don't forget, we sent a pretty inexperienced lineup to Montreal and beat them in OT).  

It's only exhibition.  We have not seen Mark Stone yet.  We didn't give up 40 shots on goal; we didn't quite get to under 30 but at 32 shots without Methot/Phaneuf in the lineup I think that was an improvement.  We went 1/3 on the PP and 3/4 on the PK.  Boucher was able to introduce the team to his insistence on discipline by benching both a veteran (and highest paid player) and a young guy for a period -- great that it happened in pre-season.  Discipline extends to a lot of different areas.  Let's see how he handles undisciplined penalties.  Maybe we finally have a coach who doesn't talk about accountability but just goes about and does it.

yes those are definitely some positives to take back from the game. but lets face it, we're all expecting the sens to go on a 10 game winning streak right from the start. i mean, i am.

are there any pictures floating around of the sens dressing room this year? i've been hearing about the Speed banners being everywhere and i'd like to see it for myself. I think it's an interesting idea as it just ingrains the idea in the mind. at any rate Dzingel seems to have received the message.

I'd take Dzingel all day ahead of Puempel at this point. ALL. DAY.

Golden State Warriors lost to the Raptors in a pre-season game too...with Durant making his debut. Let's not get carried away when the sens lose to Dung teams. It'd be nice to win all the time, but I'd rather the weaknesses surface during training camp with more time for rectification.

tim1_2 wrote:I'd take Dzingel all day ahead of Puempel at this point.  ALL.  DAY.

No question.

Flo The Action wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:I was at the game vs Montreal on Saturday and left very unimpressed.  I keep telling myself it's only exhibition.

I'm sorry for you since you paid $$ to see that (or did you luck into some freebies?) but that's the thing about pre-season.  Vets and guys guaranteed a lineup spot don't really want to go all out (just ask MacArthur) and you often have the visiting team icing a barely NHL-calibre lineup.  Because of the WCH the minimum NHL experience quotas were removed this year, which explains the Habs lineup on Saturday (and, don't forget, we sent a pretty inexperienced lineup to Montreal and beat them in OT).  

It's only exhibition.  We have not seen Mark Stone yet.  We didn't give up 40 shots on goal; we didn't quite get to under 30 but at 32 shots without Methot/Phaneuf in the lineup I think that was an improvement.  We went 1/3 on the PP and 3/4 on the PK.  Boucher was able to introduce the team to his insistence on discipline by benching both a veteran (and highest paid player) and a young guy for a period -- great that it happened in pre-season.  Discipline extends to a lot of different areas.  Let's see how he handles undisciplined penalties.  Maybe we finally have a coach who doesn't talk about accountability but just goes about and does it.

yes those are definitely some positives to take back from the game. but lets face it, we're all expecting the sens to go on a 10 game winning streak right from the start. i mean, i am.

If they aren't 10-0 to start the season, burn it the Diddle down. 

Looking at the roster tonight it's really us at a disadvantage tonight. If we can sneak a win it really wont look good on the jets.

Flo The Action wrote:Looking at the roster tonight it's really us at a disadvantage tonight. If we can sneak a win it really wont look good on the jets.

Nah man means nothing for the jets if they lose. See my post a couple posts up.