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Flo The Action wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

Sitting Neil? Unlikely. Siting Pyatt? Unlikely. The only two guys I see sitting would be Varone or dzingel.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

Sitting Neil? Unlikely. Siting Pyatt? Unlikely. The only two guys I see sitting would be Varone or dzingel.

I'd go one step further and say Dzingel is the guy.

Hoffman-Turris-Stone,
Smith-Brassard-Ryan,
Varone-Pageau-Open
Pyatt-Kelly-Neil

spader wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

Sitting Neil? Unlikely. Siting Pyatt? Unlikely. The only two guys I see sitting would be Varone or dzingel.

I'd go one step further and say Dzingel is the guy.

Hoffman-Turris-Stone,
Smith-Brassard-Ryan,
Varone-Pageau-Open
Pyatt-Kelly-Neil

I'm betting it's Varone.

Flo The Action wrote:25th in tge power ranking. Carolina is ahead.... and so is toronto.
please.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

Flo The Action wrote:

PTFlea wrote:I'm almost ready to panic.  I want Perron already.  

I have to admit that I'm experiencing a bi-polar like pre-season expectations. From thinking we might contend for the top 3 in our division to wondering by how much we might miss the playoffs by.

Seems like most pundits have us missing the playoffs. Although I find their analysis never takes into consideration how badly hurt we were last season and what a difference Dion would have made had he been there all season I must admit that my rosy glasses are somewhat returning to their usual shades of grey.

I don't see us becoming anything near a contender with our current line-up. We need to make a trade for a impact left winger and need to bring in another bottom pairing d-man.
Long term I also think we'll have to adress our goaltending situation. We may be fine this year but will we going forward past that? The more I think about it the more I'm looking in the direction of Bishop. Yes, he guy we gave away. I'm not confident in what we have in the pipeline and Hammond IMO will never be more than a very good back-up at best.
It would likely demand some shifty work from Dorion but I could see a Anderson + a good pick(like our first in a Dung draft) for a resigned bishop before the trade deadline. It would aslo give them significant cap space and a very servicable back up or 1B option for the following year. It's a dream but it makes sense to me.

Ok back to reality.

PTFlea wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

True, boucher did mention that possibility.

PTFlea wrote:
I think they need to address goaltending soon too.

As for this year, I think we have an excellent team with very thin depth.  I hope dzingel grabs this opportunity and doesn't let go until mac comes back, but otherwise it's a pretty solidly built top 6 with a poor third line due to injuries and a Cussing stellar top 4 D imo.

PTFlea wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:25th in tge power ranking. Carolina is ahead.... and so is toronto.
please.

What power rankings are these lol?

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

True, boucher did mention that possibility.

He also said Chabot and Puempel are sitting.  He's not necessarily going to go with 8D every game.

By the way, last week I think it was Simmer who made an interesting point about Lazar and Bingo -- the B-Sens don't play a lot of game early on.  Just looked an their season opener is not till the 12th (Saturday), then they don't play again until the following Friday.  They play just 6 games in all of October.

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

True, boucher did mention that possibility.

He also said Chabot and Puempel are sitting.  He's not necessarily going to go with 8D every game.

By the way, last week I think it was Simmer who made an interesting point about Lazar and Bingo -- the B-Sens don't play a lot of game early on.  Just looked an their season opener is not till the 12th (Saturday), then they don't play again until the following Friday.  They play just 6 games in all of October.

Flo The Action wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:25th in tge power ranking. Carolina is ahead.... and so is toronto.
please.

What power rankings are these lol?

TSN's...
It's pretty sad. Especially when Montreal is ahead of Chicago.

PTFlea wrote:

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Bruce Garrioch ✔ @SunGarrioch
Hoffman-Turris-Stone, Smith-Brassard-Ryan, Varone-Pageau-Pyatt, Dzingel-Kelly-Neil #Sens

3rd and 4th lines are dangerously close to horrible.  

Are they even dressing all those guys? What happened to 11 forwards? It definitely looks like they loaded up the top 6 but one would hope a guy like Stone gets double shifted and joins the Pageau line.

True, boucher did mention that possibility.

He also said Chabot and Puempel are sitting.  He's not necessarily going to go with 8D every game.

By the way, last week I think it was Simmer who made an interesting point about Lazar and Bingo -- the B-Sens don't play a lot of game early on.  Just looked an their season opener is not till the 12th (Saturday), then they don't play again until the following Friday.  They play just 6 games in all of October.

Haha, that sucks for Lazar.   You'll only play 10 games down there, don't worry...