Waived: Stephane Da Costa (update: he cleared waivers)

[sens83]

Why all of a sudden no love for Z.Smith?

 

[grilledcheese]

Da Costa --> O'Brien

Pageau --> Zibanejad

Kassian --> Grant

= win


MacArthur - Turris - Ryan
Greening - Spezza - Michalek
Smith - Zibanejad - Conacher
Condra - Grant - Neil
O'Brien


You could take it one step further Smith --> Petersson and that's potentially a huge win

MAK's world------------->Realistic

You make me laugh with all your comments MAK
Keep them comming

 

[WhiteLight*]

MAK's world------------->Realistic

You make me laugh with all your comments MAK

MAK's world --> team actually wins


The lineup is definitely better than what was iced during the road trip

 

[NyQuil]

Not sure why Conacher has been moved down.

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

Not sure why Conacher has been moved down.

He got benched in the playoffs.

 

[CanadianHockey]

Any reporter from B-Sens noticed (if they even have one at their practices?) anyone missing at their morning skate?

Bingo's twitter feed posted these morning skate lines about 3 hours ago:
Hoffman-Zibanejad-Petersson
Puempel-O'Brien-Kramer
Prince-Grant-Dizzy/Robinson
Cowick-Hamilton/Culek-Schneider

 

[WhiteLight*]

Not sure why Conacher has been moved down.

Same reason why Ryan got ''moved down''. Chemistry and balanced scoring lines.

 

[Super Cake]

So is anyone actually going to be called up?

 

[Niv]

Thank god.

 

[Shanny]

I think it's Hoffman coming up

 

[Indrew]

Same reason why Ryan got ''moved down''. Chemistry and balanced scoring lines.

Instead of 'what have you done for me lately', it's 'what have you done for me once upon a time'. I like it.

 

[NyQuil]

Chemistry and balanced scoring lines.

Adding Colin Greening to a uninspiring Michalek on Spezza's line isn't going to help IMO.

 

[Six Assets]

IMO he wasn't given much of a chance

 

[SenzZen]

Let it never be said that he didn't get a fair shot.

Edit: lol ^^^^

 

[Mercurial]

IMO he wasn't given much of a chance

Apart from that time he played with Ryan and Michalek. Short leash for these kinds of experiments. If there weren't high expectations for the team, and we could experiment a little more then I expect he would have gotten a longer look.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

Adding Colin Greening to a uninspiring Michalek on Spezza's line isn't going to help IMO.

Plus Conacher has looked pretty good on whatever line he's been on. Right now he's playing like the best top 6 options the Sens have after the obvious guys.

 

[NyQuil]

I remember when Zibanejad was brought up (the second time, not the initial 9 games), he was a sparkplug immediately with O'Brien and Condra on his line.

When you're put into these positions, you have to make some kind of immediate contribution.

It's not enough to "not play badly".

It may not be fair, but that's the way it goes.

The same thing happened with Filatov.

 

[bert]

Well, NO ONE can complain that he didn't get an opportunity to play in the bigs. The Stephane Da Costa experiment is over. Doubt we'll ever see him up in Ottawa again.

He got one game with offensive players.... I think they just don't want so many small guys up here. Especially after that road trip against such large physical teams. Realistically Conacher was the only little guy that didn't look out of place game in game out.

Plus Conacher has looked pretty good on whatever line he's been on. Right now he's playing like the best top 6 options the Sens have after the obvious guys.

I don't think Conacher is the guy that gets moved off that line... Michalek with Pageau makes a lot of sense to me.

Greening Spezza Conacher
MacArthur Turris Ryan
Michalek Pageau Condra
Smith/Zibanejad Neil

 

[H2O]

He got his chance, one that he earned from training camp. It's not surprising that he didn't do anything with it. Now let's bring back Zibanejad.

 

[ATdaisuki]

Da Costa --> O'Brien

Pageau --> Zibanejad

Kassian --> Grant

= win


MacArthur - Turris - Ryan
Greening - Spezza - Michalek
Smith - Zibanejad - Conacher
Condra - Grant - Neil
O'Brien


You could take it one step further Smith --> Petersson and that's potentially a huge win

the hoff.

greening - spezza - michalek
macarthur - turris - ryan
hoffman - zibby - conacher
condra - o'brien/smith/pageau - neil

if hoffman fails, then we go to petersson. then prince. i like me some speed, and all three of those players add speed to an already very speedy line. not to mentioned skilled.

i like the good, balanced attack on that roster.

 

[MainDotC]

Well, that experiment worked out well.



Ladies and gentlemen: your 2013/14 "Brandon Bochenski Award" Winner, Stephane Da Costa!

Look, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. He wanted playing time and he got it but did nothing with it. Best of luck to him.

 

[Here I Pageau Again]

Yup. I'm happy with this.

They gave the kid a shot, and while he has skill, he just can't produce at an NHL level. This is pretty much what I expected from him coming up. And I'm glad they are putting him on waivers. It would be best if he cleared waivers though, and could spend some time in Bingo.

 

[saskriders]

Bring up Zibby and JOB scratch smith for a game

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Just give him the old yeller treatment and have maclean take around back of CTC and shoot him.

 

[Lehner]

Why all of a sudden no love for Z.Smith?

he takes too many dumb penaltys, thats why i dont like him.