I'm a bit worried about next summer.

UFAs are:

Schubert (hopefully gone before then or wont be resigned)
Donovan (will maybe be gone before or will most likely retire after contract)
Shannon (it all depends on the season he has and what his price range is and what we can afford)
Smith (hopefully gone before then or will retire after contract)
Volchenkov ( i have no idea what will happen)
Carkner (he probably will want to go to a team where he'll play in the nhl)
Auld (wont be back to make room for elliott or will be gone before)

Now this is where it gets scary.

RFAs are:

Foligno (depending on year, should get a hefty raise in the price range of 1.5-3 mil)
Winchester ( i dont know what the plans are for this guy)
Bass (depends if he makes our team this year)
Zubov (probably gone)
Regin (depends a lot on this year)
Lee (he'll want 1.5-2.5 if he has a good year)
Picard (he'll probably want a 1.5 mil if he has a decent healthy year)
Campoli (he'll probably be looking for something like lee if not more if he has a a good offensive year)
Hennessy (gone)

So we're left with 11 players signed (1 goalie, 2 defense, and 8 forwards) with a cap hit of just over 46 million.

So we would need to get a goalie, 4 d, and 4 forwards for under 5 million equalling $555,555.00 per player.

Scary isn't it? Heatley needs to get traded ASAP.

http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/hockeycapital/archive/2009/03/26/binghamton-senators-could-open-the-playoffs-in-ottawa.aspx


Due to arena's being booked, bingo might start the playoffs in ottawa. Sucks for bingo, but could get many people who live in ottawa on their bandwagon. It would be sweet if their playoffs games were televised too.

According to nhlnumber.com we will be 45.5 mil next year with these guys under contract

Forwards:

heatley
spezza
alfredsson
vermette
kelly
ruutu
foligno
donovan
winchester
bass
zubov
regin
smith

Defense:

phillips
smith
volchenkov
schubert
lee
picard
carkner

And Auld as the only goalie. We have neil,mccamond,gerber, and kuba as UFAs and Shannon,bell, and elliott as RFAs to resign.

Neil we can replace, but we NEED some toughness. Mccamond we let go. Gerber we let go. Kuba we let go if we have a young UFA or trade option. Shannon we let go. Bell we let go. Elliot we resign to 2 year 2 million.

Providing we only sign elliott, that makes roughly 46.5 cap space with 13 forwards,7 d, and 2 goalies.We already have a full line up and the ability to add a 2 mil d and a 3 mil Forward. Now, you really want to see how much room we have.

Say we trade these guys at the deadline for picks and or prospects we would clear kelly(2.1), schubert(.9),donovan(.6),smith(2.6).

We would have 40.3 mil in cap space with 11F,5D, 2G. We already don't need to get depth because we have both karlssons pushing to make the D, we have guys like obrien on forward. Provding the cap is near 55 mil, that would give us 15 million to spend on a forward ,and a d, or 2 forwards and 2 d.

Say we spend 3 mil on a f, 3 mil on another f, 4 mil on a d, 3 mil on another d, we would have 13F, 7D,2G with a couple million cap space and 2 First round picks, plus new prospects and picks from dropping off kelly,schubert,donovan,smith,kuba,neil, etc all at the deadline.

Depending on how succesfull we are getting rid of some guys in the next 6 months will determine how quickly we can turn the ship around.

today at 1pm. On the sens site it says rogers television, but it does not show up on the schedule on channel 22 for rogers.

Anyways, we can discuss it here.

My prediction...hardest shot will go to heatley,fastest skater will go to mcammond, accuracy will go to spezza. That is if they all participate in that.

I'm surprised...He said he would not play in bingo. I'm guessing the sens wouldn't do it unless it was a 2-way because in that case if they need the extra cap space in a dire situation, then we can do it.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=250949&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_nhl

-elliott
-zubov
-nikulin


These are the top prospects in our system(besides guys like obrien and karlsson etc).

If elliott can have a very solid season and be one of the top AHL goalies, all the better for us, and himself. He needs to have a season like the old pruseks and hurmes and emery's impressed with before they made the jump.

Zubov and nikulin can be explained as 1. They both now have a North american pro season under their belt. They both posted decent rookie numbers(nikulin who is 1 year older, posted the better numbers). Now if they can both have a breakout season and maybe make the jump from career european/ahler to perhaps dastyuk,/zetterberg/alfredsson type is up to them. I'm looking for them to be close to a point a game(70-80 points). If not, it is a dissapointment which means they cant adjust to be offensive players in the north american game.

If those three players can make really good strides, we should be in very good shape this year, and for the big sens in the years to come as well.

http://senators.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=369132

He seems to be developing really slowly but hopefully he can have a breakthrough year and dominate in bingo and maybe make the team next year?

Anyone else want to elaborate?

lol really random, but i was going to post this in the phillips thread. But since it got locked, i went to the second most pointless thread. I was playing nhl 08. I had a spare forward and a spare d(so 2 G,13 F,7D) and then i got 2 injuries. Simply replaced them with my healthy scratches. Then my injured players come back and im suddenly over the cap(which doesn't make sense because that group was under the cap 2 weeks ago). So the game made me put phillips on waivers(without me knowing) and i lost phillips to dallas and cant get him back now i feel like giving up on my dynasty and i was already half way through year 2.

Really random and wanted to put it in the phillips thread. I don't want to make a whole account on EA, and was just wondering if its happened to someone here?

All the unrestricted free agents,including robitaille, were taken off the roster on the sens site. I just checked and robitaille has been re-added. Hopefully murray isn't going to announce he resigned robitaille. It better be a mistake.

http://senators.nhl.com/team/app?service=page&page=TeamPlayers&type=roster

Also no mention of who the second "A" goes to between the likely heatley or fisher.

Well, its that time of the year again.

I figure we should have a thread for the next few days or week or so where we post all the rumours as there will be plenty coming from everywhere. This is like christmas for hockey.