Why Senators fans should support Project Mayhem
by DarrenM on Oct 6, 2011 10:02 AM EDT
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Yesterday, we predicted which Senator(s) would be at the 2012 NHL All-Star Game. I now wish I could go back in time, because if Twitter is any indication, there's going to be a lot of familiar faces at that game.
Not current Ottawa Senators, mind you, but previous ones. You see, our friend Chemmy at Pension Plan Puppets hatched a scheme with a reader to vote former Senators to the All-Star Game. They figure nothing would irritate fans in the nation's capital like seeing Dany Heatley, Martin Havlat, Marian Hossa, Zdeno Chara, Ray Emery, and Chris Campoli at Ottawa's All-Star Game. This idea, nicknamed Project Mayhem, spread like wildfire over Twitter and various blogs, and now it's all but certain that come voting time, we'll see these names at the top of the voting.
Glancing at Twitter, it appears that there are a few Senators fans who are irked at the idea, but for the most part, Senators fans recognize and appreciate the humour involved in it. However, I'm inclined to do more than just laugh at it -- I think Senators fans should fully support the movement. In fact, why not expand it? What about Sami Salo? Antoine Vermette? Mike Comrie? Wait, he might actually be a Senator again by the time the All-Star Game rolls around.
This is the Ottawa Senators' 20th anniversary season (as the team won't let us forget), and these players are a part of the modern Senators' heritage. Some of that history is a bit ugly, but it's still a part of Senators history.
Furthermore, how many times have you seen comments on this blog or various message boards wondering what the Senators would be like if they hadn't traded Zdeno Chara, or Marian Hossa, or Marty Havlat? Here's a chance to see some of our favourite players from the past decade, perhaps playing on the same team for the first time in years, and we'd be able to cheer them on. You're lying to yourself if you wouldn't want to see Chara team up with Erik Karlsson on the blueline during a powerplay, or Hossa feed Daniel Alfredsson for a one-timer. It would be a pretty fitting part of the 20th anniversary celebration, wouldn't it?
Yes, I do realize that Sens fans would have to see Heatley in the All-Star Game, but that doesn't really deter me. He's been named to the All-Star game four times (including recently in 2009) and there was a chance he'd get in regardless of this movement. Also, there's always the chance he could get picked last in the All-Star draft... unless Phil Kessel has a return to form, of course.
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I love most of these guys
As I have ranted many times, Martin Havlat is a big reason I am a Senators fan. I also really Marian Hossa and Zdeno Chara.
I guess Heatley is the exception, but it would be funny to see a guy get booed at the all-star game (though…I guess they might boo Alfie too if he makes it).
Still, at least they care enough about us to mock us, it’s an improvement on ignoring. ;)
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I really don’t get their notion that we hate these players.
Space for rent.
by awr.campbell on Oct 6, 2011 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions
I really liked Havlat. The dude was FAST.
And Chara? Man. The image of him standing over Lecavalier, daring Vinny to try to hit him again is one of my favourite Senators memories.
by The Tif on Oct 6, 2011 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
No Heatley
I think the best thing to do would be to continue Project Mayhem but leave Heatley out. It would be hillarious if all these former sens were coming back but Heatley the only prominant player left at the alter.
by lachysim on Oct 6, 2011 10:15 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
i don’t get it – who wouldn’t love to see a bunch of ex-senators there? i’d be a lot more pissed off if they voted mike komisarek in.
Don’t give them any ideas.
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by Peter Raaymakers on Oct 6, 2011 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions
It could up his trade value, I guess.
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by Peter Raaymakers on Oct 6, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
If Komisarek is the best Leaf that they can send...
isn’t that a statement in itself?
Still got to vote Alfie in though
Even if he has 7 points in 35 games.
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With the exception of Heatley, I'm all for it
But let’s face it – as long as he doesn’t crash and burn, Heatley would probably make it to the All-Star game anyways.
People need to get over Heatley
The best thing we could do with Dany Heatley is to completely ignore him. How poorly does it look on us that we still care. He’s gone. Life’s too short. Move on!
Common sense is the most evenly distributed quality in all the world.
Everyone thinks they have enough.
I disagree
Every team needs a few good villains, and Heatley specifically is the only Sens “villain” actually still in the NHL.
I still hate Yashin more, though.
Agreed, Yashin remains my public enemy number one
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Heatley
Even if he gets voted onto the team he might decide to skip the game so that he doesn’t have to show his face in Ottawa.
Plus, with the way he sucked last season, he is obviously doing his best to help Sens fans get over him.
He will have a better season
New team. Has to show off for a bit.
False
He does not have a Spezza of a Thornton to feed him. Also my true dream for this season regardless of any other result is that michalek scores more than Heatley….I believe this season it may be possible…
I give him 3 months.
I’m pretty sure he’s determined to prove people wrong so he’ll do fairly well for the first little bit, but eventually that’ll be over. Besides, he’ll never prove us wrong, just look at his playoff numbers!
by Pmoron on Oct 6, 2011 12:54 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I give him 3 months.
I’m pretty sure he’s determined to prove people wrong so he’ll do fairly well for the first little bit, but eventually that’ll be over. Besides, he’ll never prove us wrong, just look at his playoff numbers!
by Pmoron on Oct 6, 2011 12:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
He doesn't need that when he decides he has something to prove
Of course, it usually isn’t long before he decides he’s proven it, and goes back to his old slacker ways.
by B_T on Oct 6, 2011 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
He has Koivu
He is pretty good too. I think Heatley will have a good year, 70-80 points.
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Don't underestimate that Minnesota line
It will actually be pretty good.
Setoguchi – M. Koivu – Heatley… Not Marleau – Thornton – Heately by any means, but he can actually be the top dog on that line & that team. I wouldn’t be suprised if he gets back to 85 – 90 points with 40 – 45 goals.
Common sense is the most evenly distributed quality in all the world.
Everyone thinks they have enough.
Mikko Koivu is pretty awesome
I hardly ever get to see him because Minnesota is in the West, and gets even less coverage than most other Western teams, but when I see him I’m usually very impressed.
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by Peter Raaymakers on Oct 6, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
I think its a great idea
+ people could pull out their old Havlat, Hossa & Chara jersey’s.
While we’re at it, lets start a write-in campaign for Boschman!
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DEAN McAMMOND!
I don’t care if he’s retired.
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by Peter Raaymakers on Oct 6, 2011 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
I was irked by it until I read this article
You make a lot of sense, Darren. And it’s not like Sens fans will have an opportunity to vote in ex-Leafs players anytime soon.
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"We don’t want every former Senator in the ASG, just the most hated former Senators. Focus your attack people."
So……. Heatley.
Cause really, there aren’t that many hated former Sens. Basically Heatley and Yashin, with maybe a case to be made for short-term hate of Kovalev or Ruutu, and Heatley is the only one still in the NHL.
Maybe they’ll move on to the former Sens that Sens fans don’t really care about? But then, that would just make the game more dull for all fans, without the poke in the eye to Ottawa fans.
If Heatley's there...
…it just gives the town another chance to boo him. Even he doesn’t bother me that much in this case.
Ruutu?
I don’t think he was hated at all. Heatley and Yashin both screwed over the fanbase. Ruutu was a pretty good guy for the team IMO.
I loved Ruutu
He didn’t get along with Clouston, but from the look of things he was far from the only one who didn’t.
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by Peter Raaymakers on Oct 6, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Based on his attitude on the way out
I figured he might be eligible for some short-lived hate.
by B_T on Oct 6, 2011 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions
I support this! Why the hell not!
Ex-Senators taking the ice? That would be amazing!!
Although I’d want Fisher centering Hossa and Havlat myself … but there’s no way he’d get in unless Nashville/country music fans really pushed for him.
These leafs fans need girlfriends....big time.
Only a bunch of pimpled up, life-on-the-internet, nerdy ass bitches would come up with an idea like this. “Let’s meet up over twitter and vote a certain way and call it ‘Project Mayhem’!”
Lamest shit I’ve ever heard. Like, between this and them rigging the goal-scoring song, I just can’t believe anyone in Toronto is getting laid.
by oldmonk on Oct 6, 2011 10:58 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Further proof that the entire Toronto fan base may be brain dead
www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzQQshtYAXp4&h=IAQBAKuPWAQDivbTXesdBAWWJkr5AeLpIBAx_ID6KhEX_jg
I love how the woman knows he’s a Leafs fan.
Yashin
These Project Mayhem guys should start a write-in campaign and try to get Alexei Yashin into the All-Star Game. Now that would be a real accomplishment on their part.
by DW19 on Oct 6, 2011 11:05 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Kessell
The ultimate irony would be if these guys spent their votes on ex-Senators and blocked Kessell from making the All-Star team.
by DW19 on Oct 6, 2011 11:12 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Other than Heatley, I bear no ill will to any of them.
Most, if not all, of the others would get huge ovations. Toronto fans are pretty dumb. Them voting Chara into the All-Star Game would be the equivalent of us thinking it would be hilariously deviant to vote in Doug Gilmour in 1999.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHbj53fZx2Y
Haha yeah, no objections to anyone but Heatley really.
Chara, Emery, Hossa, Havlat? No ill will towards any of these guys at all. It’d be a reunion game of sorts. Heatley will just get boo’ed again so why not. And yeah, Minnesota wouldn’t be sending anyone else to this game….
Absolutely.
Chara and Hossa now have cup rings. Last year we would have been happy to have Razor back between the pipes. Havlat was the only Senator who looked like a pirate, and after he left, Fisher was the only one who could grow a decent beard.
Now? We have no beard-capable Senators. We really need Shea Weber up in here.
Plus
watching Heatley weasel his way out of the game (by saying he needs minor cosmetic surgery to fix his weird-ass eyes, for example), would be a huge victory for Sens fans.
Bring it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHbj53fZx2Y
Project Laymhem
First, the irony is that the Leafs don’t even have any ex-Leafs out there to retaliate with, unless you let Tyler Seguin count. It used to be the case that ex-Leafs thived thoughout the league, but Boy Ferguson so gutted their team that thee’s simply no one left.
I would absolutely love to have Havlat, Hossa, Volchenkov, etc.. out there and even Heatley – we could give him a jersey with a target on the back…. #0. What a testament to the number of good players we have had the pleasure of cheering and who have played for our team over the last several years. The Leafs could only call up a team of retired players, and even then scrape the bottow of the barrel to round it out with Tucker and Domi.
We could vote in Tyler Sequin, Dougie Hamilton & Jared Knight
That would make me laugh!
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by havey03 on Oct 6, 2011 11:33 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I ... like this idea. Man, Leaf fans really have nothing better to do.
And I say that as someone who has hobbies that make ordinary people stare in disbelief.
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Suck it, Toronto
I just don't have the fire in my belly to actively hate Heatley anymore
If it wasn’t for his trade demand, and the awful (no offense, 9mm) that we got for him, we would still be getting older and deluding ourselves that we could compete with the current big boys in the league. So hats off to Heatley for being a scum sucking little goal leach, without you, there might not be a rebuild!
(I guess I do have a leeetle hate left in there)
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Frickin' brilliant
Darren, this is sheer poetry
I normally totally ignore the Allstar Game
Your plan is brilliant. The drama of watching the team come together would be awesome
SSS made my day
by Tom Camps on Oct 6, 2011 12:33 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
This would be LEGEN...wait for it...
DARY.
I can see a few late nights of voting when it opens. Plus the reference to one of my favorite movies Fight Club makes it even better. If you are a true blodded Sens fans I can’t see any reason for you to NOT support this idea.
What really baffles me is that the idea came from a Leaves fan. I guess there not all idiots down there.
Considering the intent was to annoy Sens fans
I disagree with the conclusion in your last sentence.
by B_T on Oct 6, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough.
I knew we were all prepared to vote Alfie onto the island but I was surprised that one of our own didn’t come up with this idea.
I think it missed it mark and will embraced by most Sens fans. It doesn’t annoy me except the fact we didn’t think of it first.
But a good idea is a good idea.
I will still vote for Alfie
Voting for these players could trump him.
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by Adnan on Oct 6, 2011 1:33 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Interesting thought.
What if we(the greatest fans in the world of the greatest team in the world) were to actually pull this off. What would be the repercussions?
Would the NHL stop letting teams fan bases from “stuffing” the ballot box?
Would the suits come up with another totally lame selection process and make the ASG even more irrelevant?
Are we going to ruin it for future generations?
I say all hands on deck and lets make it happen, but an interesting thought none the less.
yep - this HAS to be done
and i would take no greater satisfaction than watching the Leafs blogosphere find out we’re running with their idea and then try and stop the bus.
Their fans can’t even make truculence work!
So, how do we get this done? Where do we vote?
I think you over estimate the power a few Twitter geeks have to rock the vote. I know the Leafs have a big following, but I also know pretty much everyone else who isn’t a Leaf fan pretty much despises them. There are tonnes of Leafs fans, but that doesn’t mean they’re all dialed into the same methodology when it comes to voting.
Twitter geeks
And Pucky Daddy. And the Score’s hockey blog. And not sure who else.
by B_T on Oct 6, 2011 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed
No way this is actually going to happen. Remember: Even “vote for Rory” failed a few years back despite how much publicity there was.
Let’s try getting some CURRENT SENS in there as well though!
A little sad
This whole project made me realize how many great players this team has actually lost. Except Heatly, can’t wait for the opener, he’s gonna wish he never asked for a trade
by Misellati on Oct 6, 2011 9:35 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
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