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With Norris gone for what seems like another long term shoulder injury, trading tarasenko may not be the best idea anymore. Even if Norris is ready to go next season, I don't think its wise to ever count on him lasting a full season again, and you'll likely be looking for a scoring winger. Which is, afterall, kinda what Tarasenko is. 

Just spitballin' here. 

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 You did it again.

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Russell wrote:

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There’s a documentary on amazon about Alex daigle. 

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 Pronger #2 Kariya #4 Niedermeyer #5 woulda been just a bit better choices 

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"Nobody remembers who was in a documentary."

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I watched it this evening. At 15 after scoring 50 goals in a season, he was "OK, now what?" and basically floundered internally, while putting on a front trying to be what he was expected to be. 

If sports phycologists were a thing back then, things might have gone differently. 

He wasn't ready to be an NHL player, no one took him under their wing to teach him. That huge contract was an added burden on expectations. 

From @DownGoesBrown

20 years ago this week, the Senators and Flyers played a legendary game that set the NHL's all-time record for penalty minutes.

Today, I've got all 419 PIM from that infamous game, ranked from least to most ridiculous.

All 419 PIM from the 2004 Flyers-Senators brawl, ranked from least to most ridiculous

Chrychrun and his Dad are blocking Sens fans on social media platforms, he doesn’t block anyone from getting to the net yet he’s concerning himself with idiots on social media platforms. He’s finished in Ottawa if he and his family are this far in the woods.

Pierre Dorian traded multiple 1st round picks for this guy and DeBrincat and couldn’t have been more wrong unless he went out and bought multiple goalies to long term contracts to a team that hasn’t been close to a playoff spot in 8 years now

From Ian Mendes on Twitter and Jacques Martin speaking below:


“I was honest, I was kind of emotional about it.
Because I really liked our guys, I think they're great kids. But they weren't progressing like they should.
I was blunt with them. I said, 'I'm an old man. Been in this league for 35 years. I'll tell you right now, if you don't make a commitment to playing without the puck, you're never going to win. You've got great skills, great talent. So it's up to you. At some point here, you've got to learn lessons from game to game.
And I give them the credit. I think they've grown. And it's congratulations to them to making that commitment and playing within the structure.

Jason Spezza's brother Matthew died of an accidental overdose over the weekend. He was only 37.

 

Russell wrote:

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There’s a documentary on amazon about Alex daigle. 

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 Pronger #2 Kariya #4 Niedermeyer #5 woulda been just a bit better choices 

Russell wrote:

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After last nights debacle, I think its time for a serious move by Jacques to get these guys pissed off and band together, kind of like the bag skate in miracle on ice. its time he started benching guys for periods at a time and, hear me out, maybe timmy should sit for a game. Not necessarily because of performance but to reset his brain. He's spinning in circles out there. I'd say the same thing about Chuckie but I don't think you can do that to the captain. If you want to get their attn, that would do it. 

now, cap space could make a move like this tough, but that's not my problem. 

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 These are all good points and it shows you still care unlike most of the fans and players at this point. This is a total crap 💩 show and Dorian infected this team for too damn long in my opinion. Trading 1st round picks when you aren’t close to the playoffs is the stupidest damn thing you do in professional sports. 

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The sens top 6, over the last 5 games:

 

 

Norris 0G 0A

Batherson 1G 1A

Tkachuk 0G 3A

Stutzle 0G 1A

Tarasenko 2G 0A

Giroux 1G 2A

 

 

4 goals. 5 games. 6 players.

 

Zack MacEwan has more goals than Norris, Stutzle and Tkachuk combined.

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 The new owners were not prepared for the level of suckage they bought into and their myopic stance of staying the course. They had zero plans if and when the team went bad.