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DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

Lagoon wrote:

PTFlea wrote:That's not the point at all.  There are likely to be spans where a team gets Covid or are forced to miss games because another team gets it, so the schedule condenses.

So, you laugh, but you don't grasp it.

Right, and Ottawa is the only team to have this genius foresight and go out searching and extra players that you thought was roster set weeks ago? You just have no ability to see flaws of a flawed management. You are a literal punching bag.

Of course they do, but they don't have cap space to weaponize.  We just acquired Stepan, Paquette and Coburn - three assets that can be flipped again - for moving down 10 spots give or take.  Not many teams can do that.

Think it through man.

Stutzle-Stepan-Dadonov
Tkachuk-Tierney-Batherson
Galchenyuk-White-C.Brown
Paul-Paquette-Watson

Chabot-Gudbranson
Coburn-Zaitsev
Reilly-Brown

This is where I have an issue. If this was Guy Boucher coaching, the lineup above would be his opening roster. Because this is Smith I don't know what it will look like. And I get the argument that COVID will require carrying extra players, but it doesn't mean more players play on a nightly basis, which means the prospects will practice but won't get all the games they probably need to develop. Balcers, Abramov, Norris, Chlapik, L. Brown, Wolanin, Brannstrom, Formenton, Zub, Lajoie are all on the outside looking in. And I get that there will be back-to-backs and COVID related roster movement, but the optics of what's happening in Ottawa are terrible. The team's marketing last year was 'the kids are alright' or whatever crap they were spewing and they end up burying the players we were all looking forward to most. We acquire Dadonov then Menlyk the most Melnyk of moves by brining in Stepan.

At the end of the day, we are going to be sellers at the trade deadline. Gudbranson (probably unless he meshes well with Chabot), Anisimov, Stepan, Coburn, Reilly, Galchenyuk, and maybe Tierney will be gone. But we will continue to stockpile draft picks which is not what this team needs. We need our young guys to play in the NHL and we need a superstar to compliment our core of Tkahcuk, Stutzle, Chabot, and Brannstrom.

So the moves make sense from a Melnyk perspective but don't provide me with any certainty that there is a 'plan' in place. It just continues to be cheap cap moves to acquire more draft picks to be used on questionable drafting.

Lagoon wrote:The Sens released the training camp roster today and you are only allowed 36 skaters. They listed 36 and forgot to name Stepan or Stutzle at first glance. Well done Sens. Go Sens.

DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Stepan isn't expect to come to Canada until mid to late Jan. Then he has to quarantine.

Ev wrote:

Lagoon wrote:The Sens released the training camp roster today and you are only allowed 36 skaters. They listed 36 and forgot to name Stepan or Stutzle at first glance. Well done Sens. Go Sens.

This isn’t true. All of Stepan, stutzle, paquette and coburn aren’t listed on the roster as they aren’t there yet. They will be cutting the roster next week and those players will join at different times.

Lagoon wrote:

Ev wrote:

Lagoon wrote:The Sens released the training camp roster today and you are only allowed 36 skaters. They listed 36 and forgot to name Stepan or Stutzle at first glance. Well done Sens. Go Sens.

This isn’t true. All of Stepan, stutzle, paquette and coburn aren’t listed on the roster as they aren’t there yet. They will be cutting the roster next week and those players will join at different times.

So what isn’t true about what I said?

Lagoon wrote:

Ev wrote:

Lagoon wrote:The Sens released the training camp roster today and you are only allowed 36 skaters. They listed 36 and forgot to name Stepan or Stutzle at first glance. Well done Sens. Go Sens.

This isn’t true. All of Stepan, stutzle, paquette and coburn aren’t listed on the roster as they aren’t there yet. They will be cutting the roster next week and those players will join at different times.

So what isn’t true about what I said?

Lagoon wrote:

Ev wrote:

Lagoon wrote:The Sens released the training camp roster today and you are only allowed 36 skaters. They listed 36 and forgot to name Stepan or Stutzle at first glance. Well done Sens. Go Sens.

This isn’t true. All of Stepan, stutzle, paquette and coburn aren’t listed on the roster as they aren’t there yet. They will be cutting the roster next week and those players will join at different times.

So what isn’t true about what I said?

PTFlea wrote:Anyone who knows anything about the game has predicted the Sens to be dead last.  You have 6 teams vying for 4 spots with the losers missing the playoffs?  Yeah, lol, the Sens will lose most nights.

News at 11

wprager wrote:I think the Habs will be pushing the Leafs for the lead. Oilers and Flames will be a lot worse than anyone expects. Sens will not finish last.

DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Lots of ifs on the team this year, but *if* White bounces back, if Batherson shows up, etc we won't finish dead last in the division.

Flo The Action wrote:the only team that could possibly finish past us in the division IMO is Winnipeg.

wprager wrote:With more of a playoff format (playing several games in a row against the same team) Ottawa's toughness will translate into some unexpected wind in the 3nd and 3rd games of the series.

One of the teams will inevitably underperform. Injuries will happen. Players will regress. Expect the unexpected.

I don't think the Sens will manage to get ahead of *three* teams, so playoffs would be a very tall order, but I think it's almost inevitable that they will finish ahead of at least one of them Canadian teams.