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Sens Talk / Re: Sens Re-Sign Volchenkov
« on: April 09, 2007, 04:55:59 PM »
Averages out to a 2.5M cap hit.
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Sens Talk / Re: 2 Players you would like to see at the Deadline
« on: February 22, 2007, 04:42:28 PM »
Guerin
Klee
Klee
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Sens Talk / Re: Paging Dany Heatley
« on: February 08, 2007, 03:45:26 PM »
Kelly doesn't have a point in 8 games, he had to get the hell off the top line. Maybe Spezza shouldn't have been put on the top line again, but Murray doesn't seem to want to put Comrie with scoring wingers (for some very strange reason) so that's the only option he sees.
The problem is that no one else on this team can finish Spezza's chances. Fisher and Schaefer want to play the cycle game (and quite frankly, both have been awful this year) and Spezza has never really had chemistry with Vermette. Eaves is stuck on the 4th line so he's not an option. Heatley and Alfredsson are the only people that know where Spezza can get it to them.
I just don't understand why Heatley has to all of the sudden stop playing his complete game once he's on a line with Spezza. Spezza may like to have the puck, but it doesn't mean Heatley has to turn back into a floater.
The problem is that no one else on this team can finish Spezza's chances. Fisher and Schaefer want to play the cycle game (and quite frankly, both have been awful this year) and Spezza has never really had chemistry with Vermette. Eaves is stuck on the 4th line so he's not an option. Heatley and Alfredsson are the only people that know where Spezza can get it to them.
I just don't understand why Heatley has to all of the sudden stop playing his complete game once he's on a line with Spezza. Spezza may like to have the puck, but it doesn't mean Heatley has to turn back into a floater.
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Sens Talk / Re: Lines with Fisher back
« on: January 30, 2007, 01:57:50 PM »
Can't be long before Kelly is dropped down. No points in 5 games.
I guess Fisher is with Spezza and Vermette tonight.
I guess Fisher is with Spezza and Vermette tonight.
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Sens Talk / Re: THE OFFICIAL: Jason Spezza Thread (Too Many 2 Mention Merged]
« on: January 23, 2007, 09:58:09 PM »
I'm stunned.
Do some people have no memory beyond the last 15 games or so? Do people not remember who our leading goal scorer was? Who our leading point scorer was? And now some think he should sit in the press box? These are some of the strangest things I've ever heard.
After putting up only 2 points in his first 5 games, Spezza had 42 points in just 31 games. You aren't going to find very many people who are going to score at a higher rate than Spezza, but apparently some people will never be satisfied. He's got his flaws, obviously, but if you don't accept him for what he is, a creative player, than obviously you will never be satisfied. He's 23 freaking years old.
He was the teams offensive MVP up until he got injured. He was becoming just as deadly a sniper as he was a playmaker. And yet, people continue to complain about every little part of his game. He's slowly made strides with his defensive game and in the faceoff circle to go along with his scary offensive game. The turnovers have gone down since the start of the season, but they are always going to be there and you just have to accept that. Jaromir Jagr leads the league in giveaways...does that make him any less of a player? Creative players are going to try and create. It doesn't always work, but you'll get more good than bad.
If some of you guys would really like to see him gone, I'm sure there would be 29 other teams that would kill to get a hold of him.
Do some people have no memory beyond the last 15 games or so? Do people not remember who our leading goal scorer was? Who our leading point scorer was? And now some think he should sit in the press box? These are some of the strangest things I've ever heard.
Third, the now infamous 'post booed' game was an example of just how good spezza can be. He simplified his game and played in both zones - for one game!One game? Are you serious?
After putting up only 2 points in his first 5 games, Spezza had 42 points in just 31 games. You aren't going to find very many people who are going to score at a higher rate than Spezza, but apparently some people will never be satisfied. He's got his flaws, obviously, but if you don't accept him for what he is, a creative player, than obviously you will never be satisfied. He's 23 freaking years old.
He was the teams offensive MVP up until he got injured. He was becoming just as deadly a sniper as he was a playmaker. And yet, people continue to complain about every little part of his game. He's slowly made strides with his defensive game and in the faceoff circle to go along with his scary offensive game. The turnovers have gone down since the start of the season, but they are always going to be there and you just have to accept that. Jaromir Jagr leads the league in giveaways...does that make him any less of a player? Creative players are going to try and create. It doesn't always work, but you'll get more good than bad.
If some of you guys would really like to see him gone, I'm sure there would be 29 other teams that would kill to get a hold of him.
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Sens Talk / Re: THE OFFICIAL: Jason Spezza Thread (Too Many 2 Mention Merged]
« on: January 23, 2007, 06:15:14 PM »Spezza is a +3 right now. With a guy that is touted as such a great offensive player and for all the points he is on the ice for, he is on the ice for a lot of goals against as well. That makes him pretty much a wash doesn't it? The guy can be the flashiest player in the world, but if you are almost as responsible for as many goals in your own net as you are for goals in the other team's ... something needs to change.Are we watching the same player here? Spezza, after getting boo'd at the start of the season, pretty much stopped with the turnovers and took the offense on his back and carried them. This is the same guy that was our best player in the playoffs last year. When are people going to get off his back?
Murray has commented in the media, and Martin's views on the subject were even more apparent. And I just don't see that Spezza is working on his game at all. He is a great skilled player - that is not in doubt. Spezza's problem lies between his ears. He seemingly ignores his coaches' plees to simplify his game and play a more team oriented game.
There are times to play a high risk creative game, and there are times you shouldn't. Spezza doesn't seem to have the ability to distinguish between when he should and when he souldn't. He just seems like the cocky kid, who in his mind is thinking, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, coach must be speaking to the guys who aren't as gifted as me," as Murray and the coaching staff speaks to him. Hell, that probably has been true most of his life, but he's in the NHL now.
Coddling the kid is not going to make him improve, gotta put the screws to him and hold him accountable. That is the only way people improve. I don't see that he is mature enough to hold himself accountable. There is always an excuse. Always a way he can brush it off.
And your +/- accusation is rediculous. Are you saying Spezza is responsible for every goal against that he's out there for? It doesn't add up at all.
Why can't people just understand you can't bottle up someone's creativity? That's what Spezza's game is. He may turn the puck over a little bit (not NEARLY as much as people say he does), but his creativity leads to much more chances for the Sens than against.
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Sens Talk / Re: When we get healthy do we move a forward to add another defenceman?
« on: January 18, 2007, 01:58:42 PM »
Can we just trade Corvo for a real defenseman?
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Sens Talk / Re: Spezza faces up to no-win situation
« on: January 16, 2007, 07:28:45 PM »
Yes, it certainly will suck to get back the guy who carried our offense for 2 months.
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Sens Talk / Re: How do you break up this first line?
« on: January 14, 2007, 02:11:49 AM »I mean right now holy crap look at our top 6 forwards: Alfie, Spezz, Heater, Fish, Comrie, Neil... thats a nice problem to have and I mean theres still Vermette, Shaef and Kelly......Neil?? No way is he better than Fisher, Vermette, or even Kelly.
He's doing exactly what he did last year. Fast start, then falls back down to Earth.
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Sens Talk / Re: Vermette back tomorrow?
« on: January 11, 2007, 03:33:11 PM »
Yay, spread the lines out again so they can fail in the playoffs once again. It hasn't worked in the past and it won't work again.
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Sens Talk / Re: Vermette back tomorrow?
« on: January 10, 2007, 09:20:46 PM »
For the love of all that is holy, put him on Comrie's line and take Neil off it.
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Sens Talk / Re: Sens looking a little less imported
« on: January 10, 2007, 02:31:55 PM »
Our Euro guys aren't soft either. Volchenkov is the toughest SOB in the NHL as far as I'm concerned, Mez isn't soft by any means, Schubert is massive, and Alfie isn't afraid of contact.
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Sens Talk / Re: Petr Nedved soon to be a Sen ?
« on: December 31, 2006, 02:46:02 PM »
He's only going to cost $589,000. Not bad for a temporary guy.
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Sens Talk / Re: Spezza left on crutches...
« on: December 21, 2006, 11:11:11 PM »He is a guy that will not play injured either.Please. He played through that back injury all playoffs.
And do you seriously expect him to play through this injury? His knee buckled pretty bad.
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Sens Underground Announcements / Re: Corvo is horrible
« on: December 18, 2006, 04:36:38 PM »
Volchenkov is indeed up for a new contract after this season.
And yes, Corvo sucks. I tried telling that to people this summer but everyone wanted to see how he played. The man has no idea how to play defense. They should move him to forward and try him on Spezza's wing.
And yes, Corvo sucks. I tried telling that to people this summer but everyone wanted to see how he played. The man has no idea how to play defense. They should move him to forward and try him on Spezza's wing.
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Sens Talk / Re: OFFICIAL NEGATIVTY THREAD vol.2 [merged]
« on: December 16, 2006, 05:36:31 PM »
Joe Corvo is the biggest waste of $2.6M ever. Being able to play defense should be a prerequisite to being a defenseman.
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General Hockey Discussions / Re: Who is your favourite hockey player, and why?
« on: December 05, 2006, 11:00:55 PM »
Current: Anton Volchenkov because he will do anything for his team.
Past: Valeri Kamensky because he was just really fun to watch and a great player. One of the best skaters I've ever seen.
Past: Valeri Kamensky because he was just really fun to watch and a great player. One of the best skaters I've ever seen.
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Sens Talk / Re: Not One Penalty Last Night
« on: November 24, 2006, 01:06:37 AM »
Hatcher actually played pretty well last night.
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Sens Talk / Re: Sick and tired of Volchenkov and Vermette rumours...
« on: November 21, 2006, 07:03:26 PM »You have to admit, though, his turnaround - metamorphosis, really - began right around the same time his name started to appear in speculation.His name has been in rumors for a while now so I don't think that's it.
I think it had to do with practice time. He missed most of preseason because he broke his finger, then had to come right out of the gate with 3 games in 4 nights (where he struggled badly). The Sens then got a week off and he got going and has been great since.
Patience is required with defensemen.
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Sens Talk / Re: Didn't participate in Today's practice...Emery, Alfie, Volchenkov
« on: November 21, 2006, 03:44:10 PM »
Volchenkov deserves a day off. His body could very well be one gigantic bruise right now.