Pre-Game Talk: Sabres @ Senators thurs night

[solidprospect]

Change things up.

Sabres currently 6th in the eastern conference, middle of the pack power play and penalty kill.

We play the Sabres in back to back games, next game on Saturday 2pm in Buffalo.

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[Back in Black]

Can't believe the Sabres are ahead of us in the standings...

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

Can't believe the Sabres are ahead of us in the standings...

Really? They added Dahlin, Sabotka, Thompson, Berglund, Skinner, Sheary, Mittlestadt and Hutton in the offseason. We lost Hoffman and Karlsson and added almost no one. Tkachuk, Tierney, Demelo, Carey and that's it.

It seemed pretty obvious they were going to be a much improved club imo.

 

[Boud]

Can't believe the Sabres are ahead of us in the standings...

I'm not surprised to be honest I thought they would be doing better than they are.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Can't believe the Sabres are ahead of us in the standings...

Something would be very wrong if they weren't.

Games against Buffalo are usually good ones so this could be good.

 

[Answer]

Sabres should tank this year and get Hughes

Imagine for next 5-10 years, we'd be a dumping yard for Dahlin/Hughes/Eichel -- Mathews/Tavares/Marner -- Pastranak/Marchand LOL

 

[Deku]

We always lost to Buffalo when they sucked. They are now competent, at least compared to us, so I expect to lose this one.

 

[NyQuil]

Can't believe the Sabres are ahead of us in the standings...

They're a better team.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Can't believe the Sabres are ahead of us in the standings...

They've been rebuilding a lot longer and have benefited with some pretty high picks.

 

[Alex1234]

Must win cuz
Back up at 2 pm saturday
And Tampa sunday are realisticaly 2 more losses

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Must win cuz
Back up at 2 pm saturday
And Tampa sunday are realisticaly 2 more losses

 

[Tuna99]

Wheels have come off the Ottawa Senators, what a difference a week makes.

This is when things start to get really ugly for the franchise. The Pre-season was ugly, but now we are entering ‘let me know when the season is over territory’

It sucks being a Sens fan. It’s like the Iraqi commander who held a press conference saying there are no American tanks in Baghdad when there were American tanks right behind him. This team has such huge problems, I can’t even watch right now.

I have to skip this November-February part of the season, just get me to the deadline so I know what’s going on with Duchene, Stone,
Dzingel, Ceci.

I don’t even care about the on ice product, I just want to see the trade returns

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Forgot the McKenna Bobblehead night in March after 39 straight wins

 

[Sensung]

The Sens are currently 30th in CF%.
29th in FF%
10th in PDO
4th in shooting %.

This is a terrible hockey team that has ridden an unsustainable shooting % to a record that is not indicative of their play.

 

[Tuna99]

The Sens are currently 30th in CF%.
29th in FF%
10th in PDO
4th in shooting %.

This is a terrible hockey team that has ridden an unsustainable shooting % to a record that is not indicative of their play.

Watch us get a shutout tonight just to confuse everyone

 

[Sensung]

Watch us get a shutout tonight just to confuse everyone

Hockey is a funny game so that could certainly happen, but the underlying numbers show this team is just awful.

The early season lucky start was a mirage, but that didn't stop the apologists from acting like it was meaningful.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

excited to see what mccormcik can bring.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

The Sens are currently 30th in CF%.
29th in FF%
10th in PDO
4th in shooting %.

This is a terrible hockey team that has ridden an unsustainable shooting % to a record that is not indicative of their play.

You just gotta know dorion was getting giddy at 4-2-1.. was plotting a "Dahlen for Burrows" type deal.

 

[Sens in Process]

Watch us get a shutout tonight just to confuse everyone

You got to stop Pominville. He has 9 points in his last 5 games.

Buffalo's offence is looking pretty thin. They don't generate much offense from their blue line and Eichel and Skinner are the heavy offensive lifters up front.

Let's back on track.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

 

[Burrowsaurus]

had to get burgdoerfer up.. they just had to

 

[Burrowsaurus]

You got to stop Pominville. He has 9 points in his last 5 games.

Buffalo's offence is looking pretty thin. They don't generate much offense from their blue line and Eichel and Skinner are the heavy offensive lifters up front.

Let's back on track.

nhl is an odd place

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

had to get burgdoerfer up.. they just had to

So we have Demelo, Ceci, Wideman, Jaros and Bergman all RDs... Go 11 -7 , play Chabot and Lajoie every second shift and rotate the right D's lol.
Wolanin should have got another look even if he struggled a little last game.

Rodewald vs Paul .. 1 up 1 down.. does Paul get to play this time?

 

[Sens in Process]

So we have Demelo, Ceci, Wideman, Jaros and Bergman all RDs... Go 11 -7 , play Chabot and Lajoie every second shift and rotate the right D's lol.
Wolanin should have got another look even if he struggled a little last game.

Rodewald vs Paul .. 1 up 1 down.. does Paul get to play this time?

Put Paul in and slot him as the third line center and move White back with Duchene.

Dzingel/Duchene/White
Formenton/Tierney/Stone
Bodekar/Paul/Ryan

 

[Mark Effin Stone]

step 2: try to enjoy the hockey game