200th Career Point For Fish! (Photo: Jana Chytilova/NHLI)

Late Late Late

Work has conspired to keep me from the blog the past few days. Hopefully my schedule will settle down soon. this post will be short.

Two More Wins = 12-1!

What can I say, I couldn’t see Saturday’s game but the scoresheet showed Ottawa being as dominant as they normally are.

Sunday’s game was enjoyed by my buddy and I down at Gracies.¹. It was nice to see a game again with a few pints. I’d like to get down on Tuesday to represent for the Leafs game, but my little girl is sick. She’s the priority.

Kobasew

Who the hell is this? He is a legitimate threat to us this season being the only Bruin to score on us this year.

Fisher

So is FIsh streaking or does anyone put between Alfie and Heater just look better automatically? What does that say about Speeza and his new contract?

Just saying is all…

Grace O’Malleys↩

I couldn’t resist…

Groin Troubles…

The first (of many) injury to a marquee player this season has landed on Jason Speeza’s back, or rather his groin.¹ He hurt it whilst practicing on Tuesday.

Officially this doesn’t really matter much as the statement above is a falsehood seeing as Kelly, FIsher and McAmmond were out already. (In fact they might be back tonight!) The real question is how does this affect our game.

Last year, when Spezza was out we turned it up a notch as Heatley took over. Speeza almost didn’t make it back in the lineup and trade rumors abounded.

This year, we’re on fire, and there is not much room for improvement (at least in the standings). I predict, that the long layoff between games, coupled with the rusty return of a few regulars who haven’t seen much (if any) action this season, aggravated by a missing groin will combine to produce our second loss this season.

Not the best way to start month # 2, especially after going 9-1. I’ll be happy to be proved wrong of course.

TSN : NHL - Canada’s Sports Leader↩

Welcome to the 07-08 Regular Season…

Notes:

• Ottawa starts Gerber¹. It seems that Ray needs a bit more time to recover…
• Wade Redden & Mike Fisher are back in the lineup tonight.
• Toronto has a goalie crisis (again)!
• As good as the attendance is for the Premier game in London, how much better would it have been if at least one of either the Leafs or Canadiens were playing?
• Anyone else find it odd that the season has started and many teams are still playing pre-season games?

Regardless of the limping towards the begining of the season, it will be a very interesting one…

TSN.ca↩

Are you kidding me?¹ The Sun says that Murray is working over Dany’s agent to the tune of 7.5 - 9 million a season. Should be a pretty easy sell dependant on the length of the contract.

I can’t believe that they are trying to get this done this early. I mean, I’m estatic for the deal, but wow! Who’d have thunk it?

So whither Jason Speeza? Will Jason be cut loose next year? I really hope not, as he is nice and young and hot right now. It would be a real shame to lose him. But who would go instead? Redden?

The future may be a core built around Speeza, Heatley, Kelly, Vermette, Volchenkov, Mezaros, Fisher, Emery and Eaves. That coupled with a bunch of the young-uns… Not bad at all…

Ottawa Sun↩

The injury bug has hit the Senators hard.

• Emery - Wrist
• Redden - Back
• Fisher - Groin

And we almost lost Spezza to a foot injury! What’s going on here? We need to have a healthy team to start the season to get under the skin of our evil enemies in the Northeast Division!

Only time will tell as to whether we’ll be able to weather the injuries this year. (Yeah, I’m an ass for saying it…)