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Re: [Hockey] 2011-2012 Ottawa Senators Season Thread

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Hee hee....his only real commentary on the Senators was "like the Leafs are doing", several times. Wow, that's some deep lateral thinking going on, right there, and given that he doesn't know that Lehner has already been told he'll be in Bingo this year to get a lot of playing time (as he wouldn't in Ottawa), I'll have to think that he doesn't do much research for his writing beyond seeing what comparisons he can make with the blue team.
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Cuts have started:

Sent back to junior:
Jordan Fransoo (Brandon - OHL), Jakub Culek (Rimouski - QMJHL), Stefan Noesen (Plymouth - OHL), Matt Puempel (Peterborough - OHL), Mark Stone (Brandon - WHL)

Fransoo and Stone will be playing for Cory Clouston this year.

Amateur tryout Matej Machovsky released.
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they kept Clouston (is he back in Binghamton)?

good to see he is still with the organization...i liked him.

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Clouston is now the head coach of the Brandon Wheat Kings in the WHL. Kurt Kleinendorst will be behind the bench in Binghamton for his 2nd season there.

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»www.sportsnet.ca/fantasy/hockey/···Rankings

Where Spezza ranks amongst forwards.

Think I'll pass on taking him, in my pools.
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Spezza will be a bit of a fantasy gamble this year, just because he won't have any proven scorers to feed the puck to. If one of the kids really steps up, I think Spezza will turn into a late round gem.

Sens vs Jets right now on CBC (Hockeyville Game from Conception Bay , NFLD)

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Carkner has knee surgery today and is out at least a month; I guess this means Rundblad will be sticking around for a while, but I doubt he'll be playing every game.

At practice today:

Forward lines: Michalek-Spezza-Filatov, Greening-Zibanejad-Alfredsson, Foligno-Smith-Neil, Condra-Konopka-Butler
* extra = Da Costa

Blue line: Phillips-Lee, Kuba-Karlsson & Cowen-Gonchar
* extra = Rundblad

Injured: Regin (shoulder), Carkner (knee), Winchester (shoulder)
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In other news:

Mark Stone, 6th round pick (178th overall) in 2010 draft, has 13 points in five games so far in the WHL.

Stefan Noesen, 21st overall in 2011, has 1G 5A in four games.

Matt Puempel, 24th overall in 2011, has 3G 3A in five games.
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Newest addition to the Calder Cup is now ready:

»www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2011/10/···y%20last

looks like it's Alfredsson's last year~
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He probably wont want to play for a piddly $1M next year, and if the team misses the playoffs this year.

Love those front loaded contracts.
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So a bunch of Leafs fans have come up with a plan to "mess with the Ottawa All-Star game voting" to get under the skin of Sens fans.

The plan? Get as many "hated" ex-Sens players as possible on to the roster.

The problem? That's pretty much limited to Heatley, who stands a good chance of making it anyways. Every other player they've listed is, at the most, a player Ottawa fans don't actually care about one way or another. Several are players that many Ottawa fans still actively like (Chara and Fisher for example).

And getting a few more ex-Sens onto the roster would play in nicely with the 20th anniversary year stuff that the team has going on.

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That's along the lines of some of the responses I've seen. "Sens fans can't retaliate anytime soon - there aren't any former Leafs good enough to make the All-Star game".

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Nice to get the win at the home opener last night.

Also nice to see Heatley floating along.... Though a bit surprising. I was expecting more early season heroics from him due to the "see? I'm awesome!" effort from being on a new team.

Wasn't nice to see Gonchar being booed for just about everything last night (including things like "touching the puck" and "being introduced in the opening ceremony"). He hasn't had a good season so far, but at least save the booing for when he does something wrong.

I watched the game last night, Sens had another good comeback in the 3rd period and this time succeeded, hehe...

However, this isn't the right formula, they can't be falling behind 2-0 every game.
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