Islanders visit Senators [game thread]
by Dominik on Oct 8, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
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PrintNew York Islanders at Ottawa Senators, Oct 8, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
I've been under the weather all week, but I hope to be up to watch this one live and toss quips around with anyone who's around in the game thread. If, however, my hot toddy leaves me comatose beyond the opening faceoff, they're good people over at Silver Seven Sens. (Standard guest etiquette applies.)
Oh yeah: I failed to mentioned earlier that this is Ottawa's home opener, so I imagine the start will be delayed by your usual pomp and ceremony. No truth to the rumo(u)r they're retiring Dan(n)y Heatley's number though.
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Love Biron's mask
Billy Smith tribute, no?
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…and not a bad first impression from Schremp so far. Noticeable, created a couple of shots there.
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1-0 Sens
Well, that sucks.
Great pokecheck from Biron on the Spezza breakaway. Fast forward a few minutes, and a Sens shot goes off the mesh above the glass, guys slow down (play to the whistle!!) and the Senators get a goal.
Tough turnaround from the pressure they were applying in the first seven minutes or so.
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How the guys look so far?
I haven’t gotten to see my adopted Eastern Conference team play yet this season.
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Hey, Slam
Heehee, work in progress. The line of Moulson-Tavares-Okposo looks sweet.
Tonight, they put on good pressure for the first seven minutes, then got a bit of a hard-luck goal, and now the game has leveled off quite a bit. Balance shifted to Ottawa.
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Awesome.
I actually have an online feed of this game and the Avs game apparently doesn’t exist on the internet, so I’ll be watching this for a while.
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Time Warner Cable
Is anyone watching this on ch. 198 on Time Warner in NYC? The the quality is atrocious.
Not that again
Lot of complaints about MSG+2 quality last year.
I’ve got a Center Ice feed that is nothing to write home about — but it’s the Senators Sportsnet broadcast.
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It's worse
So much worse than last year…almost un-watchable.
That sucs. Do you have sound?
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er, I bet it “sucks” too.
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That's the one I'm watching.
It’s pretty “meh”, at best.
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I wait in joyful hope for the day all hockey is in HD.
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Tru dat.
No point in having this sexy monitor if I can’t even enjoy the prettiest picture quality. Of course, I could always just buy a TV and be patient…
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Andy Sutton
made a pretty nice defensive play to stop that Senators rush. I know it’s about 2 minutes late, but I had to look up who it was. Roster inexperience ftl.
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Heh heh. “The tall guy who doesn’t hit much” always works.
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Brett Clark?
Just kidding.
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Every team must have one, don’t they?
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Online Radio Feed
I have problems connecting with WFAN, but this is the Sens feed and its working well.
And Tavares's first meeting with Volchenkov
Volchenkov won.
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Gotta keep that head up.
He just about got swallowed whole.
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Little talking to from Gordon on the bench.
“When you go down the off-side and pull up like that? Yeah, in this league you’re going to get lined up.”
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Erik Karlsson
Interview dynamo. That was fun to listen to, especially the extended “uuuhhhhhhhs”.
Biron looking pretty solid, no?
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He’s got to learn to breathe through his eyelids and “take it one game at a time.”
I like Biron so far, for sure. No worries. Nice feeling, that.
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What's the plan
with the three-headed monster you guys have in net?
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Pretty much act like DiPietro doesn’t exist until he does.
If he comes back healthy at any point this year, Biron is the trade candidate. Also depends on how the Finn Mikko Koskinen plays in Brdigeport.
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Very nice.
Koskinen is already in Bridgeport, eh? Doesn’t it create another logjam of Goalies down there for them, as well? Crazy about your goalies, eh? =p
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Try going a season with the Duo of Joey MacDonald and Yann Danis, and never again will you complain about a team having too many goalies as compared to too few.
Try signing Martin Gerber. That’s worse than both too many and too few tenders.
by Dany Hea-Traitor on Oct 8, 2009 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Dany Hea-Traitor
Nice handle. Did you see the THN cover story? Apparently he is just misunderstood. :)
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Did got through last year
with Peter Budaj and Andrew Raycroft, so it’s not like I was swimming in amazing goalie play. Especially from Raycroft.
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Yeah, the Raycroft experience was hard to watch, even from this angle.
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It was odd to me
that Vancouver signed him to be Luongo’s backup. I mean, are they looking to give games away…?
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I follow the Canucks, supposedly he’s their emergency backup and they have a youngster whose on their AHL team that is the real backup.
Cory Schneider
Kid is the real deal, imo. I have no idea what they’re going to do with two very talented goalies like that. I just don’t see what the Canucks accomplished by bringing in a guy who just wasn’t any good last year. You know you’re getting barely mediocre with him, so what’s the point? Maybe I’m just missing something.
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They know that as long as Luongo is healthy their backup isn’t going to get much time. So they are giving Schneider another year or so in the AHL, letting Raycroft be the backup for 10-15 games and if Luongo goes down again for an extended period they’ll call up Schneider. No reason to have Schneider sitting all season behind Luongo when he can get playing time.
THAT I understand
Giving Schneider plenty of ice time down in the AHL, but Andrew Raycroft? That’s the part that confuses me. The Andrew Raycroft part =p
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Oh. Okay.
I hope he gets lit up, then. <3
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I wondered if they were just looking for someone who would just be content to have an NHL job, with no reason to expect more.
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No penalties in the 1st
That’s a rarity. No Schremp Hockey yet.
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Martinek
used his body pretty well to shield the forechecker from the puck and start the play up the other way. Nice D.
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Martinek has the goods. They’re just fragile.
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Nice burst of action there.
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Alright, nice pressure
First powerplay. And Phillips off for it, too. Excellent.
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Not bad. Not great, not bad. Sens did a good job keeping Tavares’s shots from getting through. Isles did a good job getting the puck back whenever they lost it.
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Gervais
made a pretty nice play along the blueline to keep the play going at the end of the PP. Bummer it didn’t pay off in the end.
Yes, I like watching defensemen.
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Ha, so I see.
When he was getting to that puck, I was just praying his partner was on the ice. Turned out Streit had never left.
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Dude!
Hunter just spun a D-man around (Karlsson?) with a move. Never thought I’d see that at regular speed.
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Was that immediately followed
by him passing it to the Atlantic Ocean? If so, I know what you’re talking about.
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Haha, yes, that’s the one. Unchartered waters there. His game is around the net and slot.
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Sutton
just got away with being a little too cute behind the net there. That was close to being an ugly turnover.
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Not good. He doesn’t have a cute enough game to get away with cuteness.
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Ugh, Biron. 2-0 Sens
Banked in by Carkner from a bad angle off of Biron’s blade.
Biron feel shame.
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Blame me.
I lost my feed just before he scored. They scored right before I turned the game on and right after my feed went out. =(
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You better stay logged on then!
By the way, how you feelin’ about the Avs’ start? Thrilled? Sort of sorry two of this season’s wins are already done?
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I'm here I'm here I'm here.
I’m excited just because the team played hard in two games, which I believe matched last season’s total. The hardest part of last year wasn’t the losing, but the feeling that 1/3 of the team just didn’t care. I’m fine with the Avs being mediocre or worse as long as they play hard. Also, this season is already a success because I made it to my first Avs home game in over ten years (I finally moved back to CO) and it was the epic Joe Sakic Night. Everything from here on out is just gravy.
Also, Duchene is awesome. Thanks for not taking him <3
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I made it to my first Avs home game in over ten years (I finally moved back to CO) and it was the epic Joe Sakic Night.
Awesome.
Kind of glad Duchene made the team already. I’m not so hot at tracking how guys are doing in juniors.
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Hell
we might have one of our second rounders make the team this year, too. That would be super duper fun.
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ROBBED!
Oh, man. Isles PP, Tavares was just robbed (I think he mishit it slightly) at the doorstep by LeClaire.
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That was the most excited the Sens announcers have gotten all night. They also think Carkner can get a Gordie Howe hat trick.
He and Jackman and Comeau were jawing in the 1st, so that may be in the cards.
Btw, if you only have audio, he didn’t get full wood on it, but LeClaire still had to get over there. Great play by Streit at the blueline, over to Okposo, over to Tavares.
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O-----KPOOOOOO---SOOOO!
Nice. Very nice. Just insane move turning Volchenkov inside out and upside town. That one’s hittin’ the highlight reels.
2-1 Sens.
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See?
My feed came back on about 2 minutes before that happened.
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Are you available on retainer? We may need to arrange something.
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End of 2nd: 2-1
Wow. Nice pressure at the end by Park-Bergenheim-Schremp, and Gervais-Streit. Very very nearly tied it up.
Time for a 3rd-period comeback.
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Heh. Yes, once.
Then Okposo > Volchenkov. Squared.
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Pffff,
When you come back to Earth, some of us will still be here. Make sure you drop in and say hi.
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Boston Pizza - No thanks.
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Too many interesting games tonight
Sens studio panel laughing at Emery getting lit up by the Pens.
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One of ’em was Guerin on a breakaway — using the same shootout look-fake/non-move that rarely worked in the Isles shootouts. Must be something about real-time that makes it more effective. Or Emery.
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Rangers up 2-1 on Capitals
I find this reality unacceptable.
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He is pretty bad.
I watched highlights of him getting rocked the other day against the Caps. Three of those goals looked pretty horrific.
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He gave up a behind-the-net shot tonight similar to Biron’s, too.
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Just saw the replay of Biron's a few minutes ago.
That was pretty bad.
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I loved Emery fighting Biron. That was fantastic
by Dany Hea-Traitor on Oct 8, 2009 8:51 PM EDT reply actions
Goalie fights rarely disappoint, but that one was quite a show.
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Was very entertaining
the fallout from it was awesome, too. Didn’t some random Sabre come by and fight Emery, as well?
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Peters, was it? Or was he not around yet. Somehow that’s who I see in my bullet-riddled memory.
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Don't remember it that well
but that it was “Goalie fights goalie, forward grabs goalie for another fight.”
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Yes it was Peters. Mike Comrie almost had Emery’s back, as much as a dwarf can I suppose
by Dany Hea-Traitor on Oct 8, 2009 8:55 PM EDT reply actions
Comrie had a handful of fights as an Islander. Every once in a while it was like, “Oh, there IS a pulse there!”
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Campoli and Sim after the whistle
Last year’s “bad apples” duel.
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A-NOTHER Isles PP
They’re going to even this up a bit eventually. Fourth Islanders powerplay. Third a few minutes ago was just so-so.
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I’m worried we’re nearing the final 10 minutes and the Sens haven’t had a PP yet.
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And there that goes.
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I’d say I jinxed it, but it was so predictable it didn’t need a jinx.
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Mouson! 2-2
Now that was a better powerplay. Probing, probing, shifting, finally the big unit does it. Weight takes it from the point down the boards, feeds Moulson in the goalmouth from behind the net.
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Kovalev could maybe use a helmet strap.
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I must give myself credit
I focused on Moulson almost from the first when they drafted him. He’s a keeper.
That was one stylish Sens fan.
A bright future, he has.
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Need some secondary/5-on-5 scoring here
Preferably from the Isles.
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Trent Hunter
looks like he got away with one…
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Wow
Biron’s given up some big rebounds. It looks like the puck is made of rubber or something.
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Vulcanized, almost ;)
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You mean to tell me
Pucks come from Star Trek?
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Uh-oh
Neil with a high forearm-to-face hit on Bailey, Schremp gets a penalty for elbowing Ruutu.
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There was just no need for that.
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BIRON
Oh my god that was monster.
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BIRON!
Huge save. Sweet feed cross the way from Spezza to Kovalev.
Actually, Kovalev put it across the body into his glove. It might’ve even gone wide. But it was cool.
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Feeling Good
Last game we came out and took a 3-1 lead, we couldn’t hold it, but 1 point is better then none.
This game we were down 2-0 and came back. I think last season we rarely came back from being down 2 at any point in the game.
Absolutely. (Assuming we hang on.) Different look now. Having real goalies helps.
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I can't even describe what's going on
This is back-and-forth craziness. Must. Catch. Breath.
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So
This Chris Neil fella has been an animal tonight.
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He has. It’s odd to see him play effectively without doing something stupid. If only he could hit with his shoulder.
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OT
Fuuuun. I like OT games.
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Bring on the firewagon hockey.
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meh
It really needs to be fixed. Either just have the OT Period, or just have the shootout. This both system is a mess.
Agreed.
I also hate the loser point. I think it should just be OT and go home. I do really enjoy the 4 on 4, though.
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The loser point is the worst
If they want OT and shootout, they should go to a 3-point system. Make every game worth the same. Make a regulation win 3 pts.
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I like that idea.
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OT beckons
Gordon called a timeout with half a minute (or less?) left, before a defensive zone faceoff. Make sure the young troops know what to do.
Not a bad show so far. Two points on the season, time for a bonus round.
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Aww weak.
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Bah, Fisher
That sucked. 3-2 OT win for Ottawa.
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Yeah, that was fun. Good signs. Good times. Baby steps.
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Wow. There’s a little room for improvement there.
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Was fun, guys.
I’ll try to drop in some more this season. For now, off to watch my own team for a bit.
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Always good to “see” you, Slam. Good luck with those Avs.
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One disheartening note...
apart from two losses. Computing in my head, the GF and GA averages are about identical to last year’s totals:
2.5 GF, 3.5 GA.
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