Senators get back to .500 with 4-3 win over Panthers

jokes!

But the rest of the team made up for it!

the hockey has been entertaining as hell to watch. Heart-Attack Kids could well become an appropriate nick-name.

One good game doesn’t mean Da Costa has solved all his problems, just like it doesn’t mean Filatov will score a hat trick every game.

Condra was with Konopka and Winchester. That line didn’t do too much though, as Darren noted.

As much as the odds improve when drafting higher, BM has drafted Karlsson (13th or 15th) & traded for Runblad (drafted @ 16th overall) for the Sens, & he drafted Corey Perry years ago with a high 20th overall pick. This year snagged Zibanejad, Noesen & Puempel with later picks in the first round- though we have yet to know how that turns out, they’re looking pretty good so far. I trust the scouting staff to come out with a good 1st round pick regardless of where it is. That being said, the biggest thing that is great to see is the effort & never say die attitude of this team. Sure it has its problems, but the fans just want to see effort. Its only 10 games in, there is plenty of time for this team to struggle yet, and they probably will. But if the team competes for a playoff spot, and then fails to make it, it will be a great learning experience for a very young team. It doesn’t matter where they finish, this year is all about development.

The environment for the current young players. If they are losing all the time, will they develop as well as if they put together a few good wins and we pick 10th?

Sure Yakupov could be very useful down the road, but what about the confidence of Rundblad, Cowen, Da Costa?

Having said that, they could still finish dead last, still very early in the season. Only 4 points ahead of 15th. But, I think this team is too talented to be 30th. An injury to Spezza, Karlsson or Anderson could change that though.

All of our best players are playing great, with the exception of Anderson.

Columbus is getting that guy. It is going to be too hard to suck as more than Columbus will this year.

Bryan Murray should have re-hired one of the shitty coaches from the past so that this team could lose more games. And he should tell his players that they need to start playing poorly.

What exactly do you expect him to do?

Even if they were losing, they were still mesmerizing to watch.

I was like, “WHY ARE YOU CHEERING DOUCHBAG?!”

Someone needs to put a flying waffle into that picture…. or a double down.

We had a man advantage because the goalie was pulled, not because Florida was short a skater.

He didn’t really stand out for me last season, but now he’s looking like a long-term piece of the puzzle here. At least I hope so.

Ha! I remember that guy from the off-season.

I didn’t see it last year but now I get it.

Kesler?

Greening does what Alfy used to do… defensive strength with some offence, and every once in a while he creams someone.

Hopefully Z’jad will come back from Sweden a great defensive player who can score big time as well and hits people hard while he is at it… Can you tell I love Power Forwards???

FURBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

It’s all about being given the opportunity. The Sens wanted to see what ZBad could do and give him every opportunity to succeed, as you know the team wanted him to stay in North America this year. To give him that opportunity it unfortunately meant DaCosta had to play on the 4th line. Now with that out of the way we can hopefully see him shine and earn that 2nd line spot.

Rec’d

Welcome to the site. Stick around, you’ll fit right in.

While I very much feel the same way as you do with regards to the team’s fortunes, I do understand the other side too. You’ll notice that the teams who have had success the last few years, namely Pittsburgh, Washington and Chicago are teams that scraped rock bottom, then got premium talent through the draft from those rough years and rose to the top of the league.

As much as I love seeing the team be competitive and win, there’s another side of me that understands that those premium players are really what makes a Stanley Cup contender in the current climate of the NHL. While there isn’t one surefire way to build a winner, there does seem to be some similarities between how some of the more successful clubs and how they got there.

I will note though, Ottawa does have a few premium picks already. I’m not sure if Zbad will prove to be a top pick or a reach, as he did seemingly come out of nowhere. Then we have Cowen, who was supposed to be a top 5 pick before he hurt his knee. So he could prove to be a premium piece still. I doubt either is going to be Crosby or Chara, but they could have a high ceiling.

I am going to make a rather nerdy point here: IF the Senators are not going to make the playoffs this year(which I still think they won’t) THEN I would like to see them finish as many of their games as possible in regulation time.

This is a season where I think it will do the team no good to pile up a bunch of overtime losses and shootout losses. Those “empty points” do nothing for the team’s morale whatsoever(IMHO) while floating them up the conference standings from say 14th to 10th (which gets them a worse draft pick, but not a playoff berth).

To paraphrase the wise Yoda: “Win or lose, there is no tie.”

Good message, but a paragraph break or two would be appreciated next time. I don’t mean that in a mean way that is just one huge block of text.

Although I do think that the “fail for Nail” talk on here is mostly tongue in cheek.

I just really hope that Montreal doesn’t draft him :)

You are doing it on purpose now! :P

Well, you can be facetious, just make it more obvious next time!

We called them the Heart Attack Kids here, and the media is calling them the Cardiac Kids! Same as how we named him Paulrus, and they copied that too!!