Pre-Game Talk: Senators @ Blue Jackets - Tuesday 28th 7:00

[starling]

Just another obligatory must win game.
Stone still injured, not at practice.

Sylvain St-Laurent ‏@Syl_St_Laurent 1m
Les trios: Greening-Spezza-Condra, MacArthur-Turris-Ryan, Conacher-Zibanejad-Michalek, Smith-DaCosta-Neil. Kassian extra. #Sens

Sylvain St-Laurent ‏@Syl_St_Laurent 6m
Les duos: Cowen-Karlsson, Méthot-Gryba, Phillips-Ceci, Wiercioch-Corvo. #Sens

Click to read more...

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Every game is a must-win game now.

 

[Lenny the Lynx]

Calling a cody bass hat trick

 

[YNWA14]

I think Ottawa rebounds big tonight and Andy puts up a good performance.

 

[WhiteLight*]

Wiercioch scratched, Phillips 20 min. Why the **** not

Ove rand over and over and over and over. I can't take it anymore

 

[masterandy18]

Running into a hot team. Should be a great game!

Go Sens Go!! Let's win so some of these threads can go away

 

[KwanTuM]

Calling a cody bass hat trick

Whoa. Is he still playing? I thought he was just injured all the time. Talk about a blast from the past.

EDIT: blast is a bit of an overstatement

 

[83DIZ65]

Sens are gonna be in tuff....still do not understand why dacosta is up.....Id dress Kaptain Kassian over him at the moment..... Andy will need to be better. Look out for Nathan Horton hes making some noise.......

 

[starling]

What's the point of playing Da Costa with Neil and Smith? Literally makes zero since. Try him with Spezza or send him down already.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Da Costa looked pretty decent in the last game or two. He really has great puck sense. Either that, or he has some sort of super magnets on the blade of his stick and the puck. It's really something to see how often he just manages to be around the puck and get it up the ice. Too bad the kid has zero strength to fight through NHL checks. He could've been a really interesting prospect with more muscle.

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

What's the point of playing Da Costa with Neil and Smith? Literally makes zero since. Try him with Spezza or send him down already.

What's your alternative to a fourth line center? He's getting plenty of PP time so I don't know what the issue is. He's been pretty effective in his limited time.

 

[Baby Ryan]

Hey guys, I only watched the first period of the last game, had to go to physio after that.
I looked on my phone and saw Phillips with 10 mins of TOI in the third. Am I dreaming?


Either way, the Sens need to play with the mentality that every game, from the start to end is a must win game.
That's how elite teams are elite, they treat every game like a must win game and play desperate hockey all the time.

These guys are so young, they haven't grasped that yet.

 

[derriko]

Hmm...wife's gonna be at school but I may just drive to this one by myself. Saw the last game in Columbus and we destroyed them 4-1.

Got tickets about 10 rows behind the bench at $38 a pop.

 

[pt_mck]

Switch daCosta and Condra

 

[WhiteLight*]

Hmm...wife's gonna be at school but I may just drive to this one by myself. Saw the last game in Columbus and we destroyed them 4-1.

Got tickets about 10 rows behind the bench at $38 a pop.

38 bucks?
How in the hell is Melnyk in the pooper?

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

38 bucks?
How in the hell is Melnyk in the pooper?

Creative book keeping.

 

[83DIZ65]

38 bucks?
How in the hell is Melnyk in the pooper?

he isn't the sens make money they make alot of money infact theyre making more money this year then they did last year.... but melnyks other bussiness ventures have been less lucrative.

 

[WhiteLight*]

Melnyk is destroying this team

 

[Benjamin]

Poor Ceci.

 

[HavlatMach9]

Poor Ceci.

think of it has weight training,

speaking of Ceci, he really flies at times

 

[Whippet]

Hey guys, I only watched the first period of the last game, had to go to physio after that.
I looked on my phone and saw Phillips with 10 mins of TOI in the third. Am I dreaming?


Either way, the Sens need to play with the mentality that every game, from the start to end is a must win game.
That's how elite teams are elite, they treat every game like a must win game and play desperate hockey all the time.

These guys are so young, they haven't grasped that yet.

I missed the game. But according to these stats Phillips only had 04:43 ice time in the third and played a total of 13:41 mins.

Obviously 13.41 mins is way too much than he's supposed to play. Im hate seeing Wiercioch scratched because of Phillips. Such a waste of talent.

http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20132014/TV020770.HTM

Edit: Forgot to link the stats

 

[Lehner]

Well at least stupid put Zibby is back at Center, scratch #4 and maybe will have a chance.

Could of replaced Greening with Smith too, but forward lines are closer.

 

[Deku]

I wish we called up Hoffman, Petersson, or Puempel instead of SDC.

 

[God Says No]

I wish we called up Hoffman, Petersson, or Puempel instead of SDC.

They still might. But only after this road trip.

 

[StefanW]

I think we'll bounce back. We've been terrible in afternoon games, but we seem to be pretty good at bouncing back in the next evening game.