GDT: #10 | FLYERS at Senators | Thu. Oct. 26, 7:30 pm ET | RDS2, TSN5, NBCSP

[boxcar65]

Yes is my all time favorite band. Received special passes to go to a soundcheck on their 35th Anniversary Tour in 2004. I play drums and keyboards, so Alan White(Yes drummer)asked if I wanted to "have a go" during the soundcheck for "I've Seen All Good People". Somehow I fumbled my way through it, but it was an experience I will never forget. The biggest joke was Rick Wakeman(keyboards)asking if I wanted to fill in for him for a song or two. Nope. Not happening. That would have been a major disaster.

 

[TheKingPin]

If this was logical they would call up Morin and put him in for manning easily. But it's not logical at all. How's Morin been with the phantoms?


Outside of that, we have a fast team we score goals and dominate. We lose two fast guys and they put in two slow guys and we look like last year.

Elliot should not have started and looks terrible. Didn't he get shelled against the ducks with Calgary? Why is he even playing that game? I bet he has a good record against Ottawa too. Hakstol is an absolute moron.

Hopefully Patrick is ok. He looked like shit, but a lot of times those players get over it quicker than the lighter looking ones. Hopefully he's not out too long. He really needs a healthy season to get his legs going. Next year we will need him.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Now THAT is an underrated album, at least today. Since I have already derailed this thread, I am going to tell a quick story and then stop. When I was a junior in high school, there was this senior who looked EXACTLY like Ric Ocasek. We threw together a band for the air jam contest we had - I was the drummer, air drumming, even though I had no idea what I was doing - we did "Just What You Needed" and we ended up winning the whole thing. I went to an all boys private Catholic high school and we had mixers every other month or so, where the girls from the all girls Catholic schools would come over. Our prize for winning the air jam contest was to "perform" at the dance, but beforehand I got too drunk and the other guys wouldn't let me go up, because they knew I would get expelled. That's my one and only rock and roll story - I was too drunk to go on stage and pretend to play drums.

Did you ever hear of the story of a fan who filled-in the night Keith Moon was too smashed to go on stage with the Who? You lost your chance. Never give up.

John Lennon literally pulled in a couple of the Beatles' fan girls that regularly hung out outside their studio off the street to record crappy backing vocals for the song "Across the Universe." The version with their warbling didn't make it on the studio album version but the version was still released elsewhere.

Point is, you never know when you're gonna get your shot, Captain!

 

[FLYguy3911]

Patrick is at practice today.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

John Lennon literally pulled in a couple of the Beatles' fan girls that regularly hung out outside their studio off the street to record crappy backing vocals for the song "Across the Universe." The version with their warbling didn't make it on the studio album version but the version was still released elsewhere.

Point is, you never know when you're gonna get your shot, Captain!

I think I accidentally buried the lede - I can't play the drums, at all

 

[Rebels57]

Thank f***ing god

 

[Strawberry Fields]

I think I accidentally buried the lede - I can't play the drums, at all

You never know unless you try!

Also, I love that this GDT for a game that's still a day away has already reached two pages thanks to completely OT discussion

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Thank ****ing god

I can't see that guy's face anymore without seeing Striiker's very accurate pinched anus filter applied to it.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Thank f***ing god that Patrick is okay. I know he was in the press box for the rest of the game so it was just precautionary. Thank f***ing god he's back.

 

[hatcher]

Hasn't done much but he'll get better in time. Morin would have f***ed that punk up if he was ghosts partner. Were so tame and flat win or lose. We need energy players not weise and Lethera that take the body not just skate around doing nothing.

 

[FLYguy3911]

D pairs change again.

 

[Curufinwe]

Simmonds is being evaluated for a LBI according to Boruk, and Issac says he blocked a shot off his ankle last night. Read practiced at 2 RW.

I haven't seen anything about Leier.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

D pairs change again.

This is Shayne's junior year, so I can see why he is being given more TOI and moving up lines.

 

[hatcher]

No Morin yet. Hexy is lame.

 

[ybnvs]

D pairs change again.

With those six playing that is how I would like to see the pairings.
Best players in top 4. Sanheim back on the left.
Bottom pair given the fewest minutes and hopefully deployed mostly against Ottawa's bottom lines.

 

[FLYguy3911]

With those six playing that is how I would like to see the pairings.
Best players in top 4. Sanheim back on the left.
Bottom pair given the fewest minutes and hopefully deployed mostly against Ottawa's bottom lines.

Well Gudas is certainly one of their 4 best Dmen, but Hagg and Manning probably wouldn't be good together and Manning-Sanheim never made much sense to begin with. I guess there is a common theme there, but I'd expect the top pair to play a lot and the other 2 pairs will split the rest.

 

[Stizzle]

This is a nice swap for Sanheim. He gets to play the left, and I liked his pairing with Hagg late last year in the AHL.

A possibly unpopular opinion here, but I actually think his pair with Hagg played better than the more publicised pairing with Morin last year.

Last season it was Sanheim on the right and Hagg on the left. Which I repeatedly said made no sense. Thankfully Ghost was vocal enough to propose he get to play the left side when paired with Hagg. Now, it looks like they've done the sensible thing and flipped the sides from last years Hagg-Sanheim pairing as well.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I can't wait for our defense to get annihilated again because Manning is still in and they refuse to bring up Morin.

 

[Magua]

Provorov-Ghost top pair.

Be still my heart.

 

[dats81]

I don't like that they are shuffling again. That's not how you infuse confidence into a young squad.
That and Ghost matching up against the top lines and getting tons of D zone starts with Provorov... maybe I'm just a fan, but it appears like a decision against common sense

 

[Striiker]

Provorov-Ghost top pair.

Be still my heart.

Don't get excited.

They'll be broken up as soon as they see their first shot attempt against.

 

[BernieParent]

I think I accidentally buried the lede - I can't play the drums, at all

It's just hitting things, anybody can do it. Which is what I constantly tell my drummer son. I can keep a beat but my brain will not activate my bass-pedal foot.

 

[Magua]

Don't get excited.

They'll be broken up as soon as they see their first shot attempt against.

 

[bb12]

Hak is so bad at leaving things alone. Players get hurt, it happens. He needs to just insert where is necessary. Not shuffle everything to accommodate. It just goes to show how bad the "extras" are.

 

[BernieParent]

As a general note, as well as specific line-up input for MSE, it appears that Turris won't be in the Senators line-up.

http://www.tsn.ca/ice-chips-sens-turris-out-vs-flyers-1.895406