Playoffs are money!

Colin Greening is getting a little extra for his playoff performance...it's the Old School way...great signing good price. Post season guys are gold.

Give Jared Cowen $6 Mill for two years and he will be the same as Marc, who will have his big payday later. If we win big our budget will not allow us to keep all the high priced help anyway.

Pageau played Zib to the wing and CC to the press box.

Pre camp opening day projection...

#6, #19, #9

#16, #7, #93

#14, #44, #22

#28, #15, #25

#3, #65

#2, #46

#4, #62

#41, #40

Forget the 15 minuters, give 'em two days off.

Put #9; #7; #11 on one line & put 'em @the end of the bench.

Put Zack back with #14 & Neil and start 'em.

Put Jimmy between Condra & the Dawg.

Put DaCosta with #93 & #33 Bingo's first line play 'em vs everyone.

#3 & #65

#46 & #61

#55 & #4

Put "Andy" back between the pipes.

"Never explain!" Sun Tzu

Not ready for Prime Time.

The Bingo boys, #33; #93 not ready for Prime Time yet.

Petr has two good shifts comes off to sit the bench and grab his shoulder?

If you have four good scoring chances and ya hit him in the neck, twice in the face & once in the shoulder...you are shooting too high.

"Our Red Ferrari" was more like a Volvo wagon tonight, OK but...

Andy is gettin' cute, give 'em the high glove and then take it away.

This is killin' Alfie...

Kyle Turris, shake up the lines and play him away from the other guys big center.

If you play the "Dawg" back to back he will produce.

The Bingo Wave!

- time for Paul to do some coaching...sit our two 90%ers...#73 & #13

- ya bring up DaCosta

- Silfverberg; DaCosta; Zib

- "Dawg"; Jimmy; Condra

- #14; #15; #25

-#9; #7; #11

And keep skatin'...

What if?

What if Ben Bishop gets his start and wets the bed...his value halved.

What if Robin without #46 & # 61 in Bingo gets "politicked"...

What if Andy realizes that there is nothing behind him, feels the pressure and takes the gas?

Big League hockey is a chess game with real "Warriors" everything does not go perfect all the time, as in the best laid plans of mice and men.

You can only send your Stanley Cup goalie to the minors with an extra twenty in his jeans so many times...

PS: Look @ Vancouver!

Andy!

- Always thought Andy was good but the closer ya get to him the better he looks...

- When #65; #19; #11 just play ordinary and ya win four zip...alright!

- Wiercioch and Benoit are not you usual 5-6 pair from the "A", can you say ready...

- Guy and Kyle look pretty co-ordinated, Alfie is just lookin' to fit in but it's there in Spades.

- Prediction the last ten minutes of the third is ours every game I don't know what Paul has done but we're faster and in better shape than everybody.

Tell Glen Healy to come to practice!

- Healy should come to practice to really appreciate "EriK" I don't think "Jolly Glen" has ever seen a defenceman who can skate like that. Wake Up and watch the game Healy.

- Word for the day is "Situated", don't think I've ever seen an Ottawa Team with four centers who are so well equipped...so well suited to cary out their assignments. "Paul" just keep roolin' 'em out there. They eventually find their mis-match...

- Kyle will talk to Guy but it will be another tough night for #73 as the pressure will be intense...

- Alfie will score for his home town crowd tonight.

- Andy should go again, believe it or not, he needs the reps.

- Ottawa wins 5 - 2.

Methot is better than EriK...NO

- Andy, ho-hum, just another road victory.

- Marc Methot, #3, nice game.

- EriK  is cool.

- GL when it's that far off, that rusty, it's like a golf swing...game 3 or game 4...CLICK!

- We got 4, count 'em 4 really well situated center ice men...

- Alfie is still the best puck checker in the league...because he does not waste any energy he just gets the puck.

- Third pair nice game they didn't look out of place at all.

- Penalty count 7 -3, I guess we better get used to it. (Tranna 6-6) Tranna 9-4 (5-2)=27-15

Game one!

Coach Paul makes minor "Faux pas" not starting the "Dawg" as hockey etiquette says is you are good enuf to make the big team again ya should get the start because you were the guys who took the Ranger to 7 games not #13.

C'mon Petr "Balls to the wall" man, give 'er...

Like that 2nd line...if they could only stop giggling...Latendresse is impressive...

Hope #46 is as good as advertised, Wiercioch looks confident...

Benoit will play better than expected because he is very gifted smart player.

EriK will be on his horse for most of the game which is fine as long as some cowboy doesn't try to take one for the team.

Andy wins but it's 6 - 5 Ottawa in a sloppy mistake filled match.

Goalies

When you are called to the big team after the lockout and your American League plus/minus is +10 (Patrick #46) or +12 (Mark #74) ya can thank both your goalies, big time.

Imagine being a young defenceman having a +15 standing 6'3"/215lbs and being left behind...Eric is in his last year of his contract...

Robin may go back down but he may not re up with us next year? A dangerous game we are playing here with our Stanley Cup goalie. It will start with a Contract dispute!

After half a season in the "A" if you are over 2 goals a game you stay and if you are under 2 you go up.

Goin' West...

33; 19; 9

73; 7; 11

14; 15; 22

23; 42; 25          ((13))

3; 65

46; 55

4; 74/39  ((Benoit))

41

((40)) 30

Thought for the day!

The reason and I have thought about this allot, the reason Toronto has such a poor hockey team year after year is that their writers, broadcasters and prognosticators are the worst in the league. The only good readable writer they had got fired.

"State of the Squad Address!"

- Need Brian Murray's State of the Sens address to get me started.

- Need to see the coach on his skates @ camp, when you get to our age ya don't skate during strikes.

- Goalies...goalies...everywhere.

- We need one National League Defenceman to make a run.

- C'mon Ref drop the puck...already...

Return!

If we were in Europe, Jason, we would quietly leave our team and RETURN for training camp on the 12th.