GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Montreal Canadiens - 7:00pm Nov. 11th, 2008

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:McGuire... bah.

Seriously, have you ever heard this guy on the radio? He does a phone-in interview with Team1200 (listen online) every morning just after 8 (sometimes earlier, but they replay it) and it's a different guy. Calm, knowledgeable, witty. You'd almost think it's not the same person. My theory is that caffeine makes him behave a little like Hammy from Over the Hedge. He certainly looks and sounds like an over-excited squirrel on TSN; but when he's on the radio in the morning (perhaps before the first coffee of the day has kicked in) he is a different person.

wprager wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:Unacceptable by a vet D man like Phillips. I dont care if he isnt supposed to be on the PP at all. Phillips is having serious issue, like I have been saying.

What are you talking about? He moved in, Vermette was supposed to take his place. Instead he skated to center and left Higgins all alone.

shabbs wrote:
Yeah, he's the Hockey Insider on the Fan 590 here in Toronto on Thursdays I think. He's so much better on the radio, doens't get all crazy. I suspect he's only like that for games and when he's going over video highlights.

He should stick to radio.

He knows a lot and knows a crap load about every team's prospects and prospects over in Europe etc...

wprager wrote:Habs were on fire (but I thought they got away with a ton of stuff). Sens got caught back on their heels, but have slowly begun to turn it around. As one-sided as it seemed to be at first (9-2 in shots at one point?) they still had quite a few very, very good chances.

Spezza's playing a very strong game, but what's with the face offs all of a sudden?

Neely4Life wrote:

wprager wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:Unacceptable by a vet D man like Phillips. I dont care if he isnt supposed to be on the PP at all. Phillips is having serious issue, like I have been saying.

What are you talking about? He moved in, Vermette was supposed to take his place. Instead he skated to center and left Higgins all alone.

With 10 seconds on the PP he is pinching in and firing into traffic, thats a rookie mistake!!! Thats basic hockey.

wprager wrote:He must be raking it in. He's also on the Montreal sports station, daily as well -- is he on every day on The Fan? If yes, then that's three radio spots per day! And he's usually doing it from the airport waiting room or his hotel room. He's got a full job with TSN on top of that, and in January/Fabruary NBC kicks in.

shabbs wrote:

wprager wrote:Habs were on fire (but I thought they got away with a ton of stuff). Sens got caught back on their heels, but have slowly begun to turn it around. As one-sided as it seemed to be at first (9-2 in shots at one point?) they still had quite a few very, very good chances.

Spezza's playing a very strong game, but what's with the face offs all of a sudden?

Yeah, the face-off stats are not looking good. They got off to a rough start and the shorty was not helping, but they certainly looked better towards the end of that peiod than at the start.

wprager wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:

wprager wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:Unacceptable by a vet D man like Phillips. I dont care if he isnt supposed to be on the PP at all. Phillips is having serious issue, like I have been saying.

What are you talking about? He moved in, Vermette was supposed to take his place. Instead he skated to center and left Higgins all alone.

With 10 seconds on the PP he is pinching in and firing into traffic, thats a rookie mistake!!! Thats basic hockey.

But it doesn't excuse what Vermette did. If your D pinches then the winger has to cover the point, which Vermette did. But when the Sens lost the puck Vermette started skating to center ice, and Higgins barreled right through the spot wher Vermette was a couple of seconds earlier.

Philips was pinching because he thought he had a good chance. A mistake, true, but to call it a rookie mistake is a bit harsh.