tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069602011-12-14T21:34:00.046-05:00Commentary about the National Hockey League from the perspective of an Ottawa Senators fanBlackRedGoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590265881146006304noreply@blogger.comBlogger1251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306960.post-1170280745687297482007-01-31T16:54:00.000-05:002007-01-31T17:01:15.883-05:00

I think I might start posting again even though I doubt anyone's even looking at this blog anymore.And to make this posting not completely useless, I'll actually say something.All pro sports mascots should be destroyed. And last night's game between the Ottawa Senators and the Washington Capitals just proved my point even more. The game last night was 'Support the Troops' with plenty of

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The broadcast of this weekend's NHL Entry Draft just got a little more exciting with TSN's announcement that Brian Burke will be part of TSN's broadcast crew. This is exciting for two reasons. It gives us the perspective of a very recent NHL GM on prospects he's been scouting this past season. As well, it also reunites Burke with his former head coach in Hartford, Pierre McGuire. From

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I can't seem to cheer for either team in the finals of the Cup this year. I could cheer for Tampa Bay because a victory by them might encourage other teams to copy their "safe is death" style of play. But I can't because the fans at the former Ice Palace have a greater percentage of jackasses then any other visiting rink I've been to. As well, has a team ever won a Stanley Cup wearing a

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Just a quirky little fact. Ottawa Senators 2003 first round draft choice Patrick Eaves will be kind of following in his father's footsteps if he eventually plays for the Senators. His father, Mike Eaves, once played for the Junior A Nepean Raiders, which now play in the amalgamated city of Ottawa, before he played in the NCAA.

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While Senator fans for the most part don't want Patrick Lalime back next season, there are some defenders of him that point to his playoff stats - 1.76 GAA and a .926 save percentage. But here some stats that might be a little more relevant. 0-3 with a 3.90 GAA and a .862 save percentage. Those are Lalime's stats in Game 7's.

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I've been pretty lazy blogging here lately. Posting weekly, if that, is a far cry from what I did while the Senators were still playing. I'm going to try to do more. Especially since the NHL Entry Draft, one of my favourite times of the year, is rapidly approaching. But once the draft and the intial rush of free agent signings on July 1 are over, I don't know how much I'll be posting until

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On the edition of the Sports Reporters that aired on TSN today, Mitch Albom complained about the state of the NHL. His main complaint? That the NHL has allowed the teams with stars to be elimated from the playoffs! He was whining about the Detroits and Colorados being eliminated. Too bad he's never heard of guys like Martin St Louis or Jarome Iginla. They've only won two of the last three

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Watching Don Cherry after last night's Flyer win over Toronto made me wonder why Toronto and Philadelphia are considered gritty, playoff teams but the Ottawa Senators aren't? Cherry went off on how Jeremy Roenick and Keith Primeau are warriors. I don't remember him saying anything like that about any of the Senators. He also praised the Leafs for their giving it their all in their series

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The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch in his latest article demonstates, once again, why he is the laughingstock of the hockey media. His article grades the Ottawa Senators on their seasons individually. When doing this there are two ways to do so. You either grade on their performance or you grade on how they lived up to expectations. I have no idea which Garrioch decided to use. Care to guess

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With Patrick Lalime's meltdown in game 7 of the playoffs, there are tons of concern about the Senators' goaltending for next season. There are essentially five paths the Sens management can take. 1) Stay the course. Keep the goaltending as is since any goalie will be a risk and Patrick Lalime has alternated each bad year with a good one. This approach doesn't cost the Sens any assets.

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There is great public outcry in Ottawa for the Sens to make significant changes after a heartbreaking game 7 defeat at the hands of the hated Toronto Maple Leafs. A lot of people seem to think that change for change sake is an effective method to achieve a goal of winning the Stanley Cup. I don't see that as a wise method to bringing the Stanley Cup to Ottawa. You can't build a guaranteed

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Eugene Melnyk read the Ottawa Senators the riot act after they lost game 7 to the Toronto Maple Leafs according to TSN's Bob McKenzie. This just seems like an incredibly stupid thing to do and I hope once Melnyk cooled down after the loss the first thing he did was personally apologize to each and every player. How does the team benefit from having him yell at them? His tantrum won't

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The funniest show on television, Arrested Development, is in danger of not being renewed for next season. I wholeheartedly recommend the show and urge everyone to watch it. Check out the website where you can get recaps of the previous episodes and watch the season finale this Sunday on Fox.

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Glad to hear that Bill McCreary isn't going to be refereeing tonight's game. My fear was a close game decided by a McCreary (non-)call late in the game costing the Sens the game. And apparently, Mats Sundin won't be playing. Or it could just be a ploy and Sundin will make an amazing recovery this afternoon. If he doesn't play and Toronto loses, who thinks the Toronto media will question if

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Just listening to Jim Rome and he's speculating that David Frost, Mike Danton's agent and alleged attempted murder victim, is a child molester. He's basing his thoughts on how Frost has been kicked out of multiple leagues and has had controversial relationships with his clients. I wonder if Rome would be speculating about something like this if it weren't for Graham James.

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The Sens finally scored on Ed Belfour after two consecutive shutouts. But the Sens didn't really seem to be any better then they have been the previous three nights. They just had puck luck on their side. The Leafs look like a team that is just praying they can capitalize on their opportunities while hoping Belfour can bail them out in their own end. But that's not to say they should be

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I didn't watch much of the Montreal-Boston game tonight but it seemed like whenever I turned it over to that matchup there was another Hab faking on the ice. I saw Richard Zednik take a little whack in the back from a Bruins' defenceman (Boynton maybe?) and drop to the ice like he had been crippled. Later Andrei Markov tried to get in Joe Thornton's face after Thornton ran over Jose

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I finally saw Mike Ribeiro's little act from Sunday night and it was even worse then what I was expecting. I don't think I've ever seen an NHL player act more like a little girl on the ice then he did. If he had suffered an injury like Malarchuk, Berard or McCleary I'd excuse it. But for an alleged pinched nerve? Yeah right! If you aren't man enough to deal with your "pain" like a man, then

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Ed Belfour pretty much singlehandedly beat the Ottawa Senators last night. Andrew at Ottawa Senators Fanblog has a good recap of the game. The Leaf fans were in the hundreds, as opposed to the thousands, at the Corel Centre last night and that might have prevented a lot of the garbage that typically happens at the Corel Centre when Toronto is in town. However, there are still plenty (though

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The Leafs beat the Sens 2-0 tonight to even their series at one game a piece. Aside from a dominating opening ten minutes to the game by the Leafs, the Sens deserved better. They just were unable to capitalize on their chances and had no puck luck. Radek Bonk missed two chances while standing on the open side of the net because the puck bounced over his stick. The Leafs were able to

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When you've been a team of thugs for years, is it any surprise that your fans want to get in on the action?

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It's Good Friday and all is good in Ottawa. Much loathed sports radio embarrassment The Dandyman has been taken off the air (hopefully permanently) because of his comments about Tie Domi. And based on the good karma resulting from his indefinite suspension, the Sens went into Toronto and beat the Leafs. It is really unfortunate that many Maple Leaf fans aren't knowledgeable enough to

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That's what Leaf fans in Ottawa are doing according to former Sens owner, Bruce Firestone - defecating in their own nest. The entire article is here. But here are some good quotes from the article: What prompts someone to cheer against their home team? Well, here is my list of why I think they do it: 1. The Stockholm Syndrome 2. The Inferiority Complex 3. Feelings of Inadequacy 4

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Tie Domi is threatening to sue an Ottawa radio "personality" over comments about Domi committing spousal abuse. As an Ottawa resident this could be one of those battles where it is a win-win situation. The personality in question is known locally as the Dandyman and there isn't a more worseless piece of crap living in Ottawa. For him to accuse someone of wifebeating isn't surprising given

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Patrick Lalime has had a subpar season this year. He's also headed into the playoffs as the Sens' starting goalie if he's healthy. Lots of Sens fans are questioning whether he can do the job. I'd like to point out some stats. A GAA of 2.47 and a save percentage of .903. You might think those are Lalime's stats from this season but they are actually his stats from two years ago which are

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Here are my predictions for the first round. Just like anyone else's predictions, they're a crapshoot. Tampa Bay - New York Islanders: Tampa Bay in 5 Boston - Montreal Boston in 5 (6 if Thornton doesn't play) Philly - New Jersey Philly in 7 Toronto - Ottawa I refuse to make predictions for any series with Ottawa. If I pick Ottawa, I'm biased and if i pick their opponent I'm hoping for a

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Watched the Sens squeek by the Florida Panthers on Wednesday in suburban Sunrise Florida. The game wasn't as exciting as the game two nights earlier against Tampa Bay but it was still exciting. It looked like Ottawa was going to have their way with Florida early on but Florida took advantage of their opportunities and looked like they might actually upset Ottawa but the Sens pulled it out at the

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Due to several requests and discovering how simple it is, I have enabled my site feed for this blog. I think. This post is a test to see if it is working. Anyways, if it is working my site feed is here. If not, I'll probably delete this post and try again.

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Over the past two postseasons, the Sens have a record of 18-12. When Bill McCreary is an official, the Sens record is 5-7. When McCreary is not a referee for the game, the Sens record is 13-5. McCreary has also refereed the Sens final game of the year two years in a row.

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Bill McCreary did a brutal job officiating tonight's Ottawa-Toronto game. Some of the cases in point include: Antoine Vermette being taken down when alone with the puck breaking into the Leafs zone. No call. Minutes later, Gary Roberts goes down when he runs over Martin Prusek. Two minute penalty to Daniel Alfredsson. Petr Bondra collides with Mikael Renberg while looking in the opposite

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I was at the Ottawa-Tampa game on Monday night. One of the best regular season games I've seen. A great example of two skilled young teams exciting the fans. I heard plenty of other Sens fans feeling the same about the game. It could have been a prototype of the kind of game the NHL should be presenting (minus the consistantly inconsistant officiating). I happened to miss the Mike Fisher

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I'm going on a roadie next week and since I'm typically lazy at posting on the weekend, I probably won't be posting again until next Thursday. I'll be heading off to see the Sens play a couple of games in the Sunshine state. If anyone has any recommendations on places to eat in downtown Tampa or the Miami area, I'd love to hear them. Hopefully when I get back I'll comment on how the Office

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The usually very knowledgeable Hockey Rodent misses the mark rather badly in a recent rant when discussing Alexander Ovechkin's bargaining power: Consider the Van Ryn Rule. If the initial offer to Ovechkin isn't to his satisfaction, he can hold out for a year and become an unrestricted free agent. This is so off the mark that I'm surprised that it came from the Hockey Rodent and not Bruce

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The Sens have been lousy lately. They've had two decent efforts in their last seven games. And unlike their struggles earlier in the season, they can't blame poor goaltending for their problems. Since they traded for Petr Bondra, they've won 7 games and lost 9. Granted, they've have a brutal March schedule but that doesn't explain their horrible effort against a tired Carolina team on

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Watching the Senators-Avalanche game last night I couldn't help but notice the play of Marian Hossa. While Hossa is one of the best offensive players in the game, he doesn't get as much credit for his defensive game as he deserves. Last night he was matched up against the league's second leading scorer, Joe Sakic, all night and Hossa had possibly the best defensive game I've ever seen him play.

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Howard Bloom is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to sports media. For those who don't know Howard, he's an Ottawa resident who has been on the fringes of the sports media for years. He used to go on Ottawa sports radio with the moniker of "the Sports Doctor" as a "sports business expert". He parlayed this into a website at http://www.sportsbusinessnews.com that I wouldn't advise anyone

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Ottawa city council has passed a resolution banning Leaf jerseys at the Corel Centre. While the resolution has no power and is only a joke that requests offenders make a donation to charity, there are countless Leaf fans that will get confused by the whole thing and think that Leaf jerseys are being banned outright like outside food or drinks. Personally, I think anything that might keep Leaf

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NHL officiating is frequently a joke. The only thing that tends to be consistant about it is its inconsistancy. Case in point, the winning goal the Canadiens "scored" against Ottawa on Feb. 24 which shouldn't have counted. It was almost identical to the goal that the Senators had waived off against the Canucks tonight. The main difference was that Mike Fisher was directed into the Canuck

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Don Cherry, for some strange reason, fancies himself a role model for hockey playing kids (although he denied it when he was pimping bland beer from the chief rival of HNIC's main sponsor). Once again tonight he was addressing them and telling them to never cheapshot someone but to go at them face to face. While it might seem responsible at first, it is horrible advice. How many kids are

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Well, it has come out that Karel Rachunek was unhappy in Ottawa and asked for a trade. If that's the case, I'm glad that John Muckler shipped Rachunek (and fellow unhappy camper Shane Hnidy) out of town. If he values his own needs over the chance to win the Cup, then to hell with him. I still think that Muckler could have gotten more for him. He's young and being in a more positive

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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin today urged hockey to `clean up your act'. Pretty hypocritical for someone who is the leader of a party that has numerous scandals in the public spotlight right now including the Adscam scandal that has cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Martin should shut the hell up and be thankful that someone has driven his sorry party out of the

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Ottawa has traded Karel Rachunek and prospect Alexandre Giroux to the Rangers for Greg De Vries. John Muckler overpaid to get De Vries. Giroux isn't a big loss considering he hasn't even received a callup to the big club yet. But Rachunek is a big loss considering his age, skills and salary. Rachunek has been a convenient whipping boy for Senator fans but he's a strong, skilled, righthanded

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The worst part of Todd Bertuzzi's actions last night, aside from Steve Moore's health, was that it was absolutely pointless. What purpose does a star player injuring a fringe NHLer with a complete cheap shot serve? Does it prevent rivals from targeting Naslund with cheap shots? No. In fact they're more likely to do so now since they now that they might be able to get Bertuzzi to do

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A lot of people were saying that Havlat should have dropped the gloves or participated in one of the brawls during last Friday's game against the Flyers. They said it would have cooled off the tensions between the two teams. In hindsight, looking at the actions in last night's Vancouver-Colorado game would prove those people wrong. Steve Moore dropped the gloves but he was still targetted by

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John Muckler has steadfastly maintained that Patrick Lalime is the Senators #1 goalie and will be their goalie going into the playoffs (although Muckler might have softened his stance during the past day). It really does appear that Lalime, who has played well for the Sens in the past but has struggled considerably this year, will continue to be a Senator following the trade deadline. However,

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Tomorrow is the NHL trade deadline and, in Canada, the sports networks will be battling for viewers. While The Score will also be covering the trade deadline, the real battle is between Rogers Sportsnet and TSN. For me, the decision is easy. I'll be tuned to TSN for the most part. It's a simple decision for me since I'll take Bob McKenzie, Dave Hodge and Pierre McGuire over Sportsnet's trio

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"I think it is a good thing for the game" - Rob Ray, commenting on tonight's record breaking, brawl filled game between Ottawa and Philadelphia. While some, including the Flyers, might want to blame the events of tonight's game on the actions of Martin Havlat during their previous match, they'd be wrong. Donald Brashear was the cause of tonight's fightfest. Just ask him. He'll tell you he

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With the Gonchar, Leetch, Nedved, Kovalev, and Nylander trades that have taken place in the past few days, I'm getting a little upset at a lot of NHL GM's. They're ruining trade deadline day for me. I want to have trades coming across the wire fast and furious with lots of big names being involved while TSN and Sportnet battle it out to report the deals first. But how good will the trade

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Yesterday a plane flew over the Queensway, Ottawa's busiest highway, carrying a banner that read: "Go Leafs Go - Chez 106.1". Chez 106.1 is an oldies rock station that has been in Ottawa for decades. However, they didn't hire the plane. Rather The Fox 101.5, an oldies rock station based in Massena, NY but recently began broadcasting in the Ottawa area, hired the plane to capitalize on the

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With the Canucks squaring off against the Avalanche in Denver tonight in their first matchup since Steve Moore's questionable hit against Markus Naslund, I suspect that everyone with the NHL Centre Ice package will be flipping over to watch at least part of the game. I know I will be. Is there anything better during the regular season then a matchup between two rivals with revenge on their mind

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I've expanded the menu on the right hand side to include team discussion boards. All the boards listed I've spent time on and I've posted on most of them. While I might not agree with the majority of posters on some of these boards, I believe they are all well run. Unfortunately, I have yet to find an Ottawa Senators board that I could endorse (the board at Fanhome is as good as it gets for

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The NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, who wear the nicest sweater in the NHL, were outdrawn on Sunday by the AHL's Chicago Wolves at a margin of 12,938 to 12,177. Could there be any other explanation for this other then Bill Wirtz is killing the NHL in Chicago? If the NHL wanted to increase revenues, they should boot Wirtz from the league's ownership ranks. Chicago should be a premiere NHL market,

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In today's chat for ESPN.com, Bill Clement made the following comment: San Jose, CA: What is your opinion of a salary cap in the NHL? Bill Clement: I think it needs to happen to create stability in the sport. Otherwise, the owners will continue to eat their young. It can't be a hard cap. It has to be something tied to revenue, and I think that truly is fair for both sides. Naturally the

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The fine folks at Vancouver Canucks Open Ed have pointed out the work of the Gematriculator in determining evil in websites or passages. According to it, I'm only 29% evil. I would think that living in the same city as all those Liberal MPs would make me a hell of a lot more evil. Anyways, the site must be pretty accurate because it recorded a 99% evil rating for the Toronto Maple Leafs

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Ottawa lost to Montreal tonight 4-2 with Montreal native Stephane Auger assigned to the visitor end of the ice. Montreal took the lead with 40 seconds left in the game when Steve Begin redirected a shot from the point while he was standing in the crease and in contact with Patrick Lalime. To make matters worse, there was another Hab in the crease when the goal was scored as well. The goal

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A must read article at Ordinary Least Square for those interested in the upcoming CBA battle. It is lengthy and claims to be only the first of three parts but it is worth reading. Click here for Part 1 of In the Black, In the Red, In the Pink

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The hockey media has started taking notice of Zdeno Chara as a potential Norris candidate. And for good reason too. After a shaky start to the season, Chara has made some of the brightest NHL stars like Joe Thornton, Ilya Kovalchuk and Jarome Iginla invisible when they match up against him. When Chara has been on the ice against these players, they've been lucky to get a shot on net. He's

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Normally sensible Globe and Mail columnist Eric Duhatschek gets caught up in overhyping Maple Leaf players in his Saturday column. From the column, which is speculating on Toronto acquiring Sergei Gonchar: Few teams could match the Leafs' top four of Gonchar and Klee, Bryan McCabe and Tomas Kaberle and then it wouldn't much matter who played as their No. 5 and 6 defencemen, because the first

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Much has been made in Ottawa about Patrick Lalime's struggles this season. Fans question if he is the weak link that could cost the Sens the Stanley Cup this year. Backup Martin Prusek has outplayed Lalime so far this year but he's unproven in the NHL postseason. With Olaf Kolzig's recent play, he's probably the only available goalie that could upgrade the Sens in net. The pros with getting

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Petr Bondra was the face of the Washington Capitals for well over a decade. There was tons of emotional responses from Capital fans after he was traded to Ottawa. But in moving to Ottawa, he appeared to get noticed more in day then all the years in Washington according to stories in the Ottawa media including this article in Slam Sports: Bondra was amazed at how many people wished him luck

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The Sens have acquired Peter Bondra from Washington for prospect Brooks Laich and a second round pick in 2005. While I like Laich and think he's got a good future ahead of him in the NHL, if he's what it takes to improve the Sens chances at winning the Cup this year then so be it. The Sens are stacked with young forwards: Hossa, Havlat, Spezza, Fisher, Schaefer, Vermette, Langfeld, Neil, etc

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Senators defenceman Karel Rachunek has been scratched from the lineup for the past two Senators games. Considering he's one of the Sens' top four defenceman, it's surprising. For the first scratch the Ottawa media speculated that it was the result of indifferent play and that Jacques Martin was looking to motivate him like a healthy scratch did earlier this year. But for two straight games

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In today's Ottawa Citizen, Senators owners Eugene Melnyk is quoted as saying he wants to be more hands on with the club. That's one of the worst things that can happen to a sports franchise. There isn't an owner in the NHL, with the possible exception of Gretzky, that knows more about managing an NHL roster then the current GMs in the league. All that will happen if the owner started

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The best comment I've heard in the media about the upcoming CBA battle was on the Ottawa Senators Pregame radio show last night. To paraphrase, "The owners want a system that is idiotproof. Instead of doing that, why don't they just fire the idiots?" Indeed. And it would give the fans what they want - uninterrupted NHL hockey.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs, especially Tie Domi, were very critical of Daniel Alfredsson's broken stick throwing gesture during Ottawa's 7-1 victory over Toronto on Jan 8. They felt Alfredsson was showing up their team. But during last night's 4-1 victory over Columbus, from Slam Sports: Tie Domi delivered an autographed stick to the Columbus Blue Jackets bench last night, but don't expect Jody

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Arthur Levitt released the details of his report, commissioned on behalf of the NHL, on the NHL's finances today. To no big surprise, they seemed closely in line with what the NHL has been claiming. I really wish there were more details released from the report. Two teams had profits over $10M US last year. One was surely the Maple Leafs, who was the other team? Could it be the Canucks?

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The 2005 NHL Entry Draft, with uberphenom Sidney Crosby expected to go first overall, has been awarded to Ottawa. The question then is, will it happen? At first blush it would appear that it should be business as usual because it doesn't involve NHL players. However, when you think about it a little you wonder what would happen. The problem with not having a CBA is that the draft is a

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The Senators have gone through GM's in recent years like other teams go through head coaches. Randy Sexton, Pierre Gauthier, Rick Dudley, Marshall Johnston, John Muckler have all been the GM during the past ten years. I don't think it is a stretch to think that the Sens could have another GM in the not too distant future. John Muckler turns 70 this year. When Muckler was interviewed by Sens

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By now every hockey fan worth their salt has heard about the changes to the NHL rulebook for the next season, whenever it may be. The only rule change that I hate is the proposed 3 point for a win system that is being trialed in the AHL next year. I'm glad it will only be in the AHL and I hope it doesn't go any further then that. As for the other changes, the one that has caused the most

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The Hockey Rodent is amazed how the Toronto Maple Leafs have a tendency to be "lucky". He thought they were especially "lucky" last night against Tampa Bay. All this "luck" makes me wonder how many officials are "lucky" enough to make the NHL from Southern Ontario.

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The best idea yet I've heard to fix the way the NHL standing appear is from PecaFan on HFBoards. His idea is: ... change the current OTL column. Instead of using it to track ot losses, we should use it for OT wins. At the end of regulation time, record a Tie for each team. Every time, regardless of what is about to happen in overtime. If nobody wins, you do nothing, since you've already handed

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The Flyers have reacquired goalie Sean Burke from Phoenix along with winger Branko Radivojevic and prospect Ben Eager for Mike Comrie. Burke's really revived his career in the desert after going in a tailspin that began when he left Hartford and included a short stop in Philly. As for who wins the trade, the old axiom is that whoever gets the best player wins the trade. While Comrie is

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Don Cherry has been in the news a lot lately for his comments about different groups of people. Unfortunately, he never seems to come under the same scrutiny when he's the most dangerous. And Cherry is dangerous because of his platform and his popularity. It is almost routine for him to make up lies about people in order to justify his opinions or gind his axe. For example, Cherry would tell

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The CBA appeared to be the main focus of CBC's coverage of the NHL All-Star Game this weekend. The main event of that focus was Ron MacLean's interview with Gary Bettman. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments of Tom Benjamin from Canucks Corner about the interview. Listening to Gary Bettman disagree with an Economics professor about the relationship between ticket prices and the CBA leads

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Don Cherry is finally being disciplined by the CBC for his comments about, well they it is about Europeans and French Canadians but let's be honest, it is about his remarks regarding Quebecers. Although Cherry had made controversial comments about Quebecers in the past, his comments never generalized about them as a group. Cherry doesn't seem to realize that Quebec holds more then its fair

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After several years of the NHL having more good goalies then starting jobs, it appears that the goalie glut is gone. It seems like the game is in a period where all the best goalies, with the exception of Brodeur, is either too old, too young or has major question marks. Are Hasek, Belfour, Kolzig, Burke, Joseph, etc nearing the end? Will Luongo, Theodore, and Turco step up as the next wave of

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I don't really care for the All Star games. Probably care about this one even less since Hossa and Redden couldn't make the game. That being said, I HATE the Eastern Conference sweaters. I don't mind nostalgia. But there's a reason teams don't wear cream coloured sweaters anymore - they are UGLY! That being said, at least they don't have two teams in dark sweaters this year. That's a step

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Penguins can survive a work stoppage. The interesting part though it the assertion that: The Penguins project a loss of $5 million this season after breaking even over Mario Lemieux's first four years as owner. The Penguins have had a really bad team in the oldest arena in the league and they haven't lost money until this year? That sounds

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Ben from Occasionally Wright commented about how Prusek might be benefiting from weaker competition to boost his numbers. I decided to figure out the stats of each goalie's competition. I used basic point totals for each team although it doesn't reflect games played nor point differentials that could be caused by playing Ottawa with different goalies. I could have done a point per game pace

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Owen Nolan on last night's game: Boo hoo, so what. I don't care. We were tired, too, and we found a way to battle back and win the game. I'm sure they have their excuses ready to go. I wonder why Nolan didn't drop the gloves last night when he was challenged? Did he have his excuses ready to go?

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The biggest story in Ottawa right now is Patrick Lalime. There are tons of people calling for his head. Meanwhile, Jacques is showing his loyalty to his number one goalie. I'm not going to say what I would do because I know less about goaltending then Martin, Muckler, etc. All I'm going to do is post the numbers for Lalime and Prusek and you can draw your own conclusions.

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The Leafs battled back from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Sens 5-4 in overtime last night. But if you had told me that the Sens would get a point from a game in which: they were missing Marian Hossa, Wade Redden, Zdeno Chara, Mike Fisher, Jason Spezza, Antoine Vermette, Vaclav Varada, Anton Volchenkov have Karel Rachunek and Chris Neil leave the game halfway through at least half the team was so

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In a bizarre moment Pat Quinn called Zdeno Chara, "Man Mountain Dean". For those of us born in the past 50 years the reference makes little sense. Anyways, I've found a picture of Man Mountain Dean. If you were to take away the beard, add a suit and make the hair grey, I think you'd find a pretty strong resemblance to certain Toronto head coach. More of a resemblance then to a 6'9" Slovakian

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A lawyer is trying to bring the NHL to Hamilton. The Toronto lawyer is trying to purchase an existing team and move it to the Copps Coliseum. This has less chance of happening then an NHL team to Winnipeg. Copps Coliseum is a huge white elephant that isn't NHL viable. In one report I saw, it has 12 suites. That is far too low for an NHL building. And from what I can gather, it can't

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A post on HFBoards gives yet another reason why Pat Quinn shouldn't be named head coach of Canada's World Cup team. To summarize, Quinn is the only non-player ever expelled from the NHL for dishonourable conduct. Albeit by another crook in John Ziegler. Quinn accepted a position, and money, with the Canucks while still head coach of the Kings. He also hid his contract with Kings for a

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Brooks Laich is going to make his NHL debut for the Ottawa Senators against the defending Stanley Cup Champion New Jersey Devils. This is the fifth player from the Sens 2001 draft that will play in the NHL, four of whom made their debut in a Senators sweater. That's just a remarkable accomplishment for a team to have five players they've drafted to make it to the NHL less then three years

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The Dallas Stars have a photo gallery with lots of nice action shots from their games. However, for the recent Stars-Senators game they have a shot with the caption, " Wonder how tall Zdeno Chara is? Look at him next to 6-4 Jason Arnott". Unfortunately, Stars fans will have to continue to wonder because the shot is of Karel Rachunek, not Chara. You can easily tell because Chara doesn't wear

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Since Pat Quinn has once again brought up the Alfredsson hit on Tucker during the playoff two seasons ago I thought I'd post a pretty accurate and articulate account of the hit from someone who is neither a Sens or Leafs fan. Here it is, taken from Teal Sunglasses.

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Talk is beginning to heat up that Pat Quinn is a front runner to coach Canada's team for the upcoming World Cup tournament. While Quinn has been successful coaching, is he the right man for the job. Even one of his biggest admirers, Tom Benjamin at Canucks Corner, is critical of Quinn's penchant for dishonesty and misdirection. Whenever someone is chosen for a position like head coach of a

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Tie Domi, one of the biggest cheapshot artists skating on NHL ice, was up to his usual tricks again. With less then a minute left in tonight's game, Domi decided to attack Shaun Van Allen for no apparent reason. Nevermind that Van Allen is wearing a full visor because of a facial injury. Nevermind that if he wanted a fight Chris Neil was on the ice at the time. I wonder if the next time

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For tonight's Ottawa-Toronto matchup, CBC decided to switch up the usual team of Bob (Cole) & (Harry) Neale. The new crew consisted of Chris Cuthbert on play by play, Neale on colour (of blue) commentary and Glen Healy on the newly created position of ignorant Leaf homer. After listening to the game tonight, even Sens fans are longing for the days of Bob and Neale alone. Neale and Healy were

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Tyler Wright is claiming that Jordin Tootoo bit him during last night's Nashville-Columbus game. Tootoo is claiming he doesn't know if he did or he didn't but that Wright had his hand in Tootoo's face. Hey Tyler! If you don't want your hand getting bitten then keep it on your stick! There's no way that anyone, even those from way up north, are going to be able to get their teeth into your

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Ottawa lost out to Vancouver to host the 2006 World Junior Championships. According to tsn.ca, Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson, chairman Allan Matthews, and Canadian Hockey League commissioner David Branch are the voting members on the selection committee. I wonder if it is a coincidence that two of the three voting members are from British Columbia? Or that Bob Nicholson is a former

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While being interviewed by Dave Hodge on TSN, Gary Bettman said that a new CBA structure was needed to fix all the league's problems which "are obvious to everyone" claiming that 76% of the league's gross revenues go to the players. He claimed that the biggest problem right now in discussions is that the PA doesn't want to discuss how much of a share the players should get. I don't doubt that

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The dumbest rule in hockey, and one that should be changed ASAP, in my opinion is the rule that nullifies a powerplay if the attacking team scores during a delayed penalty. Why should a team lose their powerplay just because they were able to score while having the same number of players on the ice as their opponent? If a team can take advantage of being able to pull their goalie, they

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the Phoenix Coyotes. In my books anyways. I love the simplicity of the design and the logo. I love the distinctive colour. I wouldn't be upset if they lost the shoulder patch with the Arizona flag but otherwise I think it's great. Brick red and white as a team's colours. Modern yet basic. Someone could point that out to the Atlanta Thrashers with their blueberry yogurt third jersey that

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I've noticed a strange occurance this year at the Corel Centre this year. I've seen people wearing Toronto Maple Leaf gear to games at the Corel Centre on Saturday nights when Ottawa's opposition isn't Toronto. Last Saturday the Sens were blowing out the Rangers at the Corel Centre while the Leafs were in Montreal facing their historic rivals in a meaningful matchup. So why were there two

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Ted Leonsis appears to be passionate about his Washington Capitals. Unfortunately, he took things a little far recently by getting into an altercation with a fan. Leonsis has been taking a lot of heat from Capital fans because of the team's performance. But that doesn't excuse getting into physical confrontations with fans. Leonsis seems to be involved in all the trade discussions that the

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In the upcoming CBA negotiations the league wants "cost certainty" which appears to mean a salary cap, while the players are opposed to this concept. As a fan I'm also opposed to a hard cap for all teams because it will mean forced mediocrity. A team gets too many good players and they can't afford to keep them all under the cap. But the league wants to find a way to stop a team from spending

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