Well this season was a hell of a run and was a great time to be a Sens fan The team looks to be in a great spot moving forward with alot of young talentwho really stepped up this year, alot of those guys however are UFA/RFA....


Figured Id get this thread started since things are expected to slow down drastically in the coming months.


RFA
Zibanejad
Chiasson
Stone
Hoffman
Pageau


Thompson
Prince
Claesson
Culek
Kramer
Schneider


UFA
Condra
Hammond


Wideman (UFA IV)
Johnson Mills
Grant, A
Grant, D
Mullen
Camper




GO....................

1) Hemsky says he wants to keep his options open, when asked about contract status... edit- Also that he would like to be on a playoff team.....
2) Spezza rumors are running wild... More so than usual..
3) One of which says Send keep Paulrus or Spezz... Can't be both... Any truth to the rumor these guys don't see eye to eye?

I didnt know where to put this but here it is..

Pretty much what everyone expected.

for Silfverberg, Noesen and a 1st rounder...


Holy garbage


I guess theres your Alfie replacement BIlly...


Already a response from Ryan regarding the trade..

Bobby Ryan (@b_ryan9) - Ottawa.... Im coming in hot




Losing Silf and Noesen will hurt more if Bobby Ryan doesn't re-up. He's only under contract for 2 years.

Probably not topic worthy but since its the quite season here why not..
3 more years of the Paulrus...


http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=676519&print=true

Well, it's not for sure yet..
But me and my GF may be moving to Ottawa after all these years.
We frequently visit the city and there are a number of job opportunities there for her (Dental Hygienist) so we figured we may as well explore the possibility of moving over there.


We took the year to see if we could make things work in our home town but we don't have the connections to pull it off. We came close when a position opened up for her but the secretary had a brother with a new GF from out of town who got the job. This one ended up costing up $700 but thats a whole different story.


But, We've decided to not wait anymore.


She has applied to a few dental places in Kanata and Ottawa and hopefully within the coming months we will hear something good.


It's not the biggest news in the world and most of you may not care, but I just wanted to share it with someone. We are pretty excited and hopeful....


Keep your fingers crossed for us, the competition for Hygienists in Ontario is pretty fierce.

I know there is a 2012/2013 general but Ill start a new thread for the sake of it... It is a shortened season afterall and there was no play in 2012...


Watching a few of the games this past few days I can clearly see who the players who went overseas are. They, almost all, seem to be a step or two ahead of the non-playing guys..


Goaltending everywhere seems to be a little sketchy.


Watching the Pens games, both James Neal and Malkin are both pretty incredible players.
Malkin makes hockey look so easy.
Another notable for their team is Tyler Kennedy. Does that guy ever zip around the ice and make things happen (also a pending UFA).

Does anyone know when this is happening or if it already has ?
Ive been trying to get some pro-return Sens pants for a while now and have had no luck.
I can get ahold of almost ANY other team goalie pants, just not Ottawa.
Players pants arent a problem, but I dont need those.

Has anyone posted about this or do we steer clear of the political banter in order to keep the peace around here.


Link
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/29/federalbudget-flaherty-hilights.html


Great, no more penny, so everything gets rounded up....


Retirement age goes to 67 


Deregulating Environmental Assessments on Oil and Mining... TERRIBLE. I work in Nat.Res and the standards set in the EA's right now are already so minimal, and the mining companies dont even meet those standards.
But Harper wants the oil sector to grow 75% in the next year alone.... My God.


There is also a reported 400 Health Canada jobs being cut, and up to a 40% cut in funding to Scientific Technical jobs.




Im just curious what everyones take on this is.


I dont have enough info as to which types of jobs are being cut (clerks, secretaries, assistants, managers??) The deregulation of EA's is the burning point for me.....

as per TSN
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=375760
 
While technically not really that bad, still shows that some mismanagement has been going on here..
Always found it odd Texas had an NHL team.. I would expect these guys to go down before New Jersey.... Crazy how things work