Player Discussion Forward Chemistry - Past & Present/Future

[StoicSensFan]

I saw an old highlight of Turris and MacArthur on reddit today, and it gave me the idea for this thread.

Which two forwards do you remember having the most exciting chemistry for the Sens, and what forwards do you think will have chemistry for us going forward?

Past:
MacArthur - Turris
Spezza - Hemsky
Yashin - Hossa

Present/Future:
Chucky - Norris
Batherson - Jimmy
Pinto - Paul
Formenton - Greig

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[Sweatred]

Pinto and Formenton are a thing

 

[Matsens15]

Spezza-Heatley

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

I love the makeup of: Formenton-Pinto-Brown. Man that line is going to be a pain in 2 years as our 3rd line. I feel Sokolov and Greig will be able to play with anyone. I can see Sokolov and Stutzle being lethal. This isnt considering Beniers/Guenther/whoever we could draft.

Greig-Stutzle-Batherson
Tkachuk-Norris-Sokolov

Greig-Stutzle-Sokolov
Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson

 

[Sun God Nika]

Spezza-Heatley

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[Masked]

I saw an old highlight of Turris and MacArthur on reddit today, and it gave me the idea for this thread.

Which two forwards do you remember having the most exciting chemistry for the Sens, and what forwards do you think will have chemistry for us going forward?

Past:
MacArthur - Turris
Spezza - Hemsky
Yashin - Hossa

What? Spezza and Hemsky was a very short term thing. I could think of a half dozen players Spezza had chemistry with before I'd get to Hemsky. I can never remember Yashin playing with Hossa. Hossa was almost always with Bonk during Yashin's time in Ottawa. Yashin mostly played with Alfredsson, Dackell and MacEachern during those years.

 

[NyQuil]

Antoine Vermette and Chris Kelly had a bit of chemistry.

 

[dumbdick]

Alfie and <insert any other player here>

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Alfie and <insert any other player here>

Likewise Stone.

 

[dumbdick]

Likewise Stone.

Agreed. With karl and stone gone, i think alfie's reputation as the GSOAT is cemented for a bit longer. But Stone might have given him a run for it.

 

[jbeck5]

Wait...yashin-hossa?? That wasn't a thing. Hossa was glued to bonks wing.

 

[bicboi64]

Stone made everyone seem better.

Spezza with Heatley and Michalek
Turris MacArthur was fun.

One duo that i'm shocked never worked was Spezza and Ryan. I legit expected Ryan to break 40goals with Spezza since he's a better offensive talent then Getzlaf was.

 

[dumbdick]

Foligno and Ryan Shannon

 

[StoicSensFan]

Wait...yashin-hossa?? That wasn't a thing. Hossa was glued to bonks wing.

Definitely messed up that one, maybe I'm thinking of Hossa and Bonk

 

[Sensinitis]

Spezza-Heatley

Spezza-Alfie

Spezza-Karlsson

Methot-Karlsson

Alfie-anyone

Stone-anyone

Phillips-Volchenkov

 

[Clayonator]

Schubert and McGrattan.

 

[NyQuil]

Schubert and the crossbar.

 

[2CHAINZ]

G S N

 

[StoicSensFan]

G S N

 

[Sensinitis]

McAmmond and Saprykin

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

How does one mention Spezza-Hemsky and not Spezza-Heatley?

 

[Boud]

Before Methot - Karlsson there was Kuba - Karlsson

 

[Matsens15]

Condra- missing empty net

 

[cudi]

Peter Schaefer and the boards in the offensive zone

 

[jbeck5]

Is it me or our old teams under Jacques had way more chemistry...almost to a fault.

He'd get the perfect combos going and keep them together year after year and it kept working.

That being said, when it got tough and things weren't working, he wouldn't change them.

But when it came to chemistry, you knew exactly who played with who. I can look at a 2003 lineup and tell you the exact lines 18 years later because they never changed.

Any line I think of from this year was only together for a handful of games.

It's still comes to mind because lines never changed.

Varada-bonk-hossa
Smolinski-white-alfredsson
Schaefer-fisher-havlat
Blah blah Neil.

Game in and game out.

The last decade with our carousel of coaches seem to put the lines in a blender every week never letting chemistry build throughout the season or seasons.