-- Edited by tjlincoln on Tuesday 30th of September 2014 10:37:26 PM

Gee, that seems like a lineup I should rush home from work for.... :|

Kardinal

I like the way u are thinking about getting Carolina's first round pick--but I'd bet a billion of EddieBelfour's dollars that no way Carolina would trade this years No. 1 pick with McDavid and others waiting there for them to pick since they are going to suck. But they will still win the seasons series vs. Ottawa.

Great point about GMBM will NOW sign Methot since he's hurt

5 players not at the 'big team' practice:  9MM, Condra, JGP, Methot, Gryba

Depending on how serious their injuries are, it will be interesting to see who is kept from going to France for Bingo's pre-season games there. 

The talk is that Methot has either a hip injury or it's a reoccurrance of his back problems from last year.   Oh boy, a star and fan favorite / whipping boy with a back problem.   That doesn't sound familiar at all.  

 

(sarcasm)

The team should sign him right away, long term, for $5M+.

(/sarcasm)

The 3rd line of last year is a great 4th line. I'm done with Greening and the big money is coming up...honestly he would be a buy out option on any other team.

Can't have too many young guys, but we need some and need to give up some quantity for quality.

Smith, Neil, Greening, and Condra--just what do they contribute to winning hockey games at this point in any of their careers?

Neil was a great soldier at one time, all I ever see from Smith is that dumbfounded look on his face as he's on the ice as the other team scores again.  Greening is big and fit yet he's invisible most of the time on the ice.  Condra misses about 1 or 2 sure fire goal scoring opportunities every week.   My point is why not bring in Stone, Puempel, Lazar, Hoffman, Prince, Pageau and even Dzingel to see if they can play better than those 4 guys.  They keep saying on the podcasts who are they going to let go or whatever to make room for the young prospects well there are 4 in my opinion.  I'm often wrong on these things since I didn't grow up watching and playing hockey but someone tell me what any of those 4 did to actually win games last season.  I know they play shutdown roles and PK and fight but do they win games.  Why can't the new guys that Melnyk is so high on do those same things better and cheaper?

The Senators have reduced their training camp roster by three:

 

Ben Harpur: returning to the Guelph Storm of the OHL

Nicholas Paul: returning to the North Bay Battalion of the OHL

Matt Murphy: returning to the Halifax Mooseheads of the QMJHL

 

(my internal autocorrect changed the Battalion to the Centennials -- I must be channeling my inner Chris Neil)

It's medicals and testing day -- who's going to be the name that 'leaks' out as not being in shape/overweight/not ready to play?   Who's going to be a "beast"?

Kardinal wrote:

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The new TV deal money is good, but that has nothing to do with business support of season ticket sales.   If businesses in a city can't use the tickets as incentives / thankyous to their customers, there isn't much incentive to have them other than a perk for employees, and that makes selling them much, much harder.

 

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 That is true, but it's hardly like the government is the only business in the city.  Maybe they need to be paying attention to how all of the other small-market Canadian teams are managing to sell theirs, instead of just blaming it being a 'government city' for the problem.