B-Sens lose MVP Mauldin to Bridgeport

he may have gotten mvp (awarded by the local newspaper and coaches) but i still thought he was extremely replaceable, missed his window to the nhl years ago i thought, never a top line player despite the numbers he put up. Murray i thought did an excellent job tweaking binghamton for next your. so mauldin’s move doesn’t really phase me. sure we’re losing a likable face here, but i’d rather see a long awaited playoff birth.

first i’d like to say, binghamton fans are very uneducated of the hockey world outside of our senators. over the seasons i hear alot of uncreative nicknames such as “drew do it all by yourself fata” and my favorite. Brian “buy a house here because you’ll never go to ottawa” lee. Their idiotic comments would go on forever. Despite that we have a long history of hockey here. We’re by far the smallest market in the ahl, with a stadium that seats 4,950 people. but we have in my opinion one of the strongest, most passionate fanbases in the ahl. Nothing is more important here in winter than hockey. Alot of people seem to dislike the ottawa organization though. Which is because people don’t understand the point of a farm team, saying that the entire organization is a trainwreak, i know i know. i just laugh. don’t blame them though, they may be a bit uneducated, but they love their team and hockey.

our offensive core was mostly first year ahlers some just coming over from europe, like peter regin who had a gwg in the nhl. to add on to the fact that our core is coming back more expirienced, we’re adding proven top scorers in multiple leagues such as st. pierre and keller to our depth. We have enough depth now i think to have 3 very dangerous lines. Goaltending is not and issue, i liked the way mitch o’keffe played when he was moved up from elmira, plus with the addition of leclaire, i don’t see broduer getting to much nhl time. All that worries me is defense. We have a decent core but since mattias karlsson went back to sweden, i’m afraid that we may lack pure talent on the blue line. That is, unless erik and Jared got more time in binghamton than i predict. lee i’m alomst sure will play less than 20 games down here. I’d be nice if we could sign one vetern ahler like fata to bring more confidence and expirience, on the blue line just to be safe.