Maybe all it was...was the goalie!

- Chris Phillips thinks so!

- Our squad looks pretty light (and cheap) right now but that's OK it will make room for some guys out of camp...training camp next fall has got to be "performance based" no matter who the guy is or how much he makes!

- When your goalie is as good as Anderson he can yell at his defencemen and they better listen or else...excellent for the new kids!

- Potulny may just be a late bloomer and he will be competing for a spot with all our picks and American Leaguers...it's all about who has NHL hands (like Butler)...

- "Rocco" likes being truly the man and will do a good job leading these young pros...

- Still like Alfie as the Playing Coach...come on lets have some fun, ya coach the defence and let the forwards run...

- All in all, one has to let "Bryan" have a shot at completing the job!

Maybe all it was...was the goalie!

It's fun to watch again.

- Not just cause we won but it was interesting when Philly was all over us early on.

- "Rocco" has hit his stride...I still don't like him out there on the PK but he's getting marginally better at it!

- Our new man in the mask (Colorado) is the "real McCoy!"

- Tranna doubles 'em in PPs (8-4) again last night...if Sid had been playing he would have simply explained to the Refs that "Tranna has a really dirty team, guys like Phaneuf, Armstrong, Rosehill and Bozak are the worst slashing, cross checkers in the league!" and..."and they don't deserve to have a 100% advantage over everyone else in the league because you are trying to get 'em in the playoffs!"

- Boys, we gotta keep Phillips, he and Rocco are now the face of this team...make Alfie the coach, with the sex laws in Sweden (Wikileaks) all the big robust Swedes will want to come to Ottawa.

- I still think Kuba goes to Europe, a "command performance", and we pay the difference...for "EriK's sake" we have to move on...maybe a switch with Gothenburg!

William "Billy" McCreary!!!

This old kitchen cabinet maker can call 'em for Tranna with the best of 'em!

Game in game out, this 55 year old retiree has been the Head Office choice for as many Leaf games as they can fix for him to work.

They tried to retire him as he has not done a big game since 06 because he has an uncanny ability to get in the way of the players during good scoring cycles.

A six (6) to two/three minor penalty advantage is the "Norm" in these games. Notice I called a 6 to 2 advantage with 52 shots.

Note: A non-playoff team should not be 4th in total power plays in a 30 team league, it just does not compute! Notice again, all the jiggling, balancing at the end of the game cannot hide that stat...

Note 2: "Billy" got 'em a point!

Note 3: Mr. Anderson, a fifty shot road shutout win, just "Perfect!"

Let's watch the dirtiest team in the league beat Tranna!

According to a general consensus of the current NHL ZEBRA, Ottawa Senators are the dirtiest team in the league when they play Tranna and otherwise also...

Anderson will block 52 shots, kill 5, maybe 6 penalties and beat the Leafs, Burkie and his Zebra 4 to 1 right in Tranna...

There might be an obvious off side or two thrown into the bargain!

Love the way the/our unbiased announcers, night after night, have to remind us it all evens out over 82 games, if Milan says it one more time I am going to kick him in the shins...hard...

Bring on Bob Cole, he will think and we shall agree, that he's been asked to do a St. John's Junior game because he will know absolutely no one!

Kovalev will score again tonight and just keep right on going to New York for the playoffs!

Bryan will have Kuba all set to move on and old #17 will injure himself again for the 50th time in his career.

Holy Cow!

I liked the cut of this guy when he played for Florida against us, but this ain't the Chicago Black Hawks he's playin' behind or that good Florida (Jacques Martin) defence for that matter.

We may even see him tonight.

Bryan is keeping it interesting for the Ottawa faithful. I'll have to go back to watching on the Telly.

Craig Anderson, good name for a goalie, he's got good speed and decent size. We may have to pay him a little money if they want him to stay!

Good bye to Brian Elliott, go out west and stone 'em kid!

"Don't be evil!"

Don't be evil...keep Chris Phillips!

Now let's get "Corporate"...throw every other DEFENCEMAN that we have "over the side" (and I mean cheap) and see if anyone will throw them a life preserver...

Ya wanna be "Corporate" stop playing Kovalev right now while everyone can see how hot he is...he and his agent will immediately start calling in favours and he will be gone in no time!

Eugene, ya wanna be "evil"...give Bryan two more years!!

"Run to failure...moment!"

This could be the SEN's, our, Bryan's run to failure moment...trading Vermette and now Kelly were/are not great hockey moves, but eventually you have to move some guys out of the middle of your line up to make room for some fresh blood. The one thing it does present to you is the chance to pick up/up-grade the offence but if you think about it both of these guys had the skill and potential to score big time and didn't!

I like it, it's like going "all in"...now ya gotta draw the cards! And don't kid yourself there is a lot of know-how, luck and skill involved here.

We strongly recommend drafting all skilled forwards, big skilled forwards and more thick skilled forwards...ya can always convert 'em to defencive specialists after if you have to...

Now we (Eugene) gotta give Bryan another contract!

Good for Fish...

- Good for Fish...good for Nashville...good for Ottawa...

- First round picks and only first round picks run deep into the Stanley Cup Playoffs year in and year out...and stop with Detroit already, that was a super fluke!

- You boys wanted a re-build, here come the two year, three year, four year estimates...

- I shall buy an "expensive" season ticket to go watch our kids...

- "Rocco" should go all around this off season playing summer hockey with everyone then come back and tell Bryan, who he likes, who will come here and for how much...

- Don't spend any money on a goalie yet it's too soon, "Legs" will have to shoulder the load...

- Alexander Semin would be a nice start!

- I'd make Alfie the (playing) Head Coach right now...just for the record, he has a problem with P. "F." M.

- Let's see what Kuba could make in Europe and pay the difference...

- Looks like we need about 3 or 4 top six forwards...but we got the cash...

Note: this was a big move today in the right direction!!!

Hopeless...let's fall to last overall!

- Listening to the "Voice", in "the theatre of the mind" beats having to watch...

- Gord, there is only one "Ten Bell" save per game...haven't heard that term since the Sixties...

- "Rocco" should not get Alfie's PK minutes...ya don't waste what little offencive energy you have on defence (the PK)...if ya want give him 20 minutes run him through two lines every second cycle!

- "Legs" is trying, he held 'em in there for two periods. I'd continue to let him play...losing is good for the "Soul"...

- Greg...try and even out a 55 penalty (the Calgary/Ottawa differential) plurality over the last 27 games...I don't even want to know what Tranna's is!

- This is so bad...now we cannot take the chance of letting "Bryan" retire!!

What do we need?

- Next year, we need a goalie with some luck! And we all know you have to be good to be lucky!

- We need another defenceman, who can skate like "EriK"...(our other Swedish D-man)

- We need JC to replace Phillips and I mean to play better than him.

- We need a sniper for Rocco, Foligno could/can cary the second line...

- We need Fisher to retire to Nashville...

- We need 9MM to put exactly 10% more curve in his blade...it will be at least 10 more goals...

- We need the two new Alternates to be Campoli and Rocco...

- We need Gonchar to start to work on his speed again, he usta be one of the fastest D-men in the League...

- We need to move Kuba out of the room...How???

- We need Alfie to play with his 5 wood only, all next summer 'till he gets his feel and accuracy back...that's at least 4 games where he has the tier or winner on his stick late and can't cash in!

- We need to spend our money judiciously, it's easy to throw big money at players who are not worth it!

- Next year, we need to bring the best team out of training camp, I mean the best goalie, the best 6 defencemen and the best 12 forwards...the merit principle!

- We need to let Rocco choose the next head coach!

- We need "NOT" Pierre "F" McGuire! I'd keep the Murray family.

Man, that's poor hockey!

- That looked like a "house-league" game between the two worst teams...

- Greg don't give us that, it all evens out over 82 games "Bullsh*t", you were an outsider your whole career...

- Elliott is as brittle as hard plastic, it's all pressure...

- Alfie's timing is shot...over tired...

- Kovalev is skating like he's looking for a job...

- "Rocco" is still fun to watch...

- Kuba is a lost cause...

- Lehner looked pretty good...next time drop the guy...

- Coach, if you only have 15 shots but you are seeing some chemistry, ya don't break 'em all up...and what's with benching your "All Star", park your ego, till you are back in Junior!

Good game to watch!

- Our Coach is too inexperienced...

- Our Coach has no status with the Refs...

Note: The guys in the war room in Tranna just laugh when they know Pollock has blown another call...especially against Ottawa!

- Our Coach has no luck...

- Our coach should "not" have pulled "Legs"...

- Our Coach should have got us another TMMOTI Penalty again tonight...

- Our Coach has stopped coaching...

- Our Coach has run out of IDEAS...

- Our Coach looks terrible...Eugene let him go (I'd make Kuba a coach just to get him off the ice) and keep playing the kids they are fun to watch...

We are sick of Coach Clouston!

- I'm sick of Clouston!

- We love "Legs" Lehner.

- I want "Rocco" to start playing again so I have something to watch!

- We want Alfie to just "relax" and let his two young (?) line mates do all the grunt work!

- Play Phillips 30 minutes a game!

- If Detroit gets up two zip and starts to skate us into the ice with their version of the trap someone should skate over and conk Babcock on the head!

Note: Slow but sure the Trade Deadline approaches!!!!