AD Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Would he rather have lost in Ottawa?yes, that's exactly what he meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Awww, we coulda had some brown acid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 So, it would have been more fun to get destroyed by the Ducks and lose the Stanley Cup on home ice in front of all your fans? That just seems weird, IMHO. I guess it would sting a little less with one more Cup Final gate receipt to deposit in the bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 I thought the sarcasm would bleed through without changing the font colour. But it appears not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Wasn't sure. I just found that quote to be very odd. Thought that maybe I was missing something there and wasn't used to you being very sarcastic about the Sens organization. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted April 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 D Wade Redden was asked about the long odds the Senators face in trying to upset the Penguins. "People win the 6/49 every day," he said ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 D Wade Redden was asked about the long odds the Senators face in trying to upset the Penguins. "People win the 6/49 every day' date='" he said ...[/quote']Well, twice a week max. But, yeah. Go Wade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 In the Globe & Mail today (i guess Spezza doesn't like the bad media the team is getting ... kinda like Maurice?):http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080408.MACGREGOR08/TPStory/National/columnistsSenators latch on to role of underdogROY MacGREGOR rmacgregor@globeandmail.comApril 8, 2008OTTAWA -- What if Yogi Berra had played the Canadian game instead of the American pastime?"Hockey," he might have said, "is 90-per-cent physical - the other is half mental."Or something like that.Consider, if you will, the head games going on in Ottawa yesterday at the Ottawa Senators' practice, as the team that fluked its way into the NHL postseason on another team's demise began pumping itself up for the playoffs.The Senators, Stanley Cup finalists only 10 months ago, now speak of themselves as underdogs as they prepare for tomorrow's opening match against the Penguins in Pittsburgh.Last April, again in the first round, it was exactly the opposite - the frisky young Penguins the underdogs as they went up against these same Senators, only then considered the best team in the National Hockey League.Sit, now, and watch a brief montage of the year that followed: Senators squashed in the Stanley Cup final by the Anaheim Ducks; No. 1 goaltender Ray Emery to No. 2 and, if general manager/coach Bryan Murray could only figure out how to do it, banished far beyond No. 3; new players who added less than was taken away; the fastest start in NHL history to within a single (Carolina Hurricanes) victory this past weekend of the greatest regular-season collapse in NHL history ...Add in jumpy goaltending by Martin Gerber, No. 1 goaltender by default, shallow defence, a missing forward line and injuries to heart-and-soul captain Daniel Alfredsson, among others, and you have ...... an underdog so yippy that even the local paper says it has "a better chance of winning the 6/49 lottery" than beating Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, former Senator Marian Hossa and once-again-promising young goaltender Marc-André Fleury.To stir such a pot, you need a big stick, so let us begin with coach Murray sitting at the dais yesterday afternoon, eyes clear as angel wings as he accuses the Penguins of "tanking" their final game of the season in order to get the soft and sore Senators in the opening series."I know what was going on," he said, innocent eyes widening to invite all gathered to nod knowingly."They wanted to play Ottawa. That was obvious from when they dropped the puck."In this particular grassy-knoll scenario, the Penguins deliberately gave the Great Crosby the day off on Sunday as they went up against the hated cross-state rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. It was the return match in what, days before, had been a brutal and bloody battle that many took to be a prelude of the playoff matchup to come.The Senators are aware that, from time to time, such things do take place in a game that likes to pretend it is beyond such devious manipulation.At the end of Ottawa's first year back in the league, 1992-93, the Senators' organization pleaded with Boston officials to bring the best squad possible to Ottawa for the final game of the season. Meaningless to Boston, but not at all to Ottawa, who wanted to lose in order to claim Alexandre Daigle in the draft.It worked, though Daigle didn't exactly work out.Murray, a former teacher with a knack for inspiration, managed in only a few words to set tacks along the length of the Ottawa bench. If they can't get up for a team that has such obvious contempt for them, Murray's thinking must have gone, then they won't get up for anything.That the Penguins themselves will be up is beyond debate. Last year they were a very young and inexperienced team that lucked its way into the playoffs. They fell in five games to the then mighty Senators and it was deemed a success in light of the playoff experience gained by the youngsters.Now they are less young, less inexperienced. More significantly, Malkin, who looked lost a year ago in the playoffs, has emerged as one of the NHL's most lethal forces, coming second in the scoring race to the Washington Capitals' Alexander Ovechkin.Malkin's emergence could also have a profound effect on Crosby, who is not only coming off a long injury but coming off the first experience in his life of not being considered the entire team. So proud and competitive is Crosby that he will be out to show more than the Senators that he is the top gun in Pittsburgh.In the Ottawa dressing room after practice, the usual clichés flew and some were even caught and written down.Defenceman Chris Phillips, who has a spring tradition of picking up his own game for the playoffs, probably put it best when he said the key thing will be to "not beat ourselves." The Senators, in recent months, have undeniably been their own worst enemy."We're getting a bad rep here," Jason Spezza added, "and everybody is ousting us in the first round and not giving us much of a chance."But we feel differently about our team. We feel we've got the manpower in here. If teams want to play us, we'll see what happens, I guess."We shall see for sure.As Yogi also once said, "You can observe a lot by watching." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 well, spezza is absolutely right. nobody is picking the sens to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 and they really shouldn't be. Why would people pick them to win?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 [color:purple]Oh, only if Pittsburgh didn't "tank" their last game by not dressing Crosby (against their hated rivals and dirty bastard Flyers) then everyone would be picking the Sens in the first round ... right Murray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 [color:purple]Oh, only if Pittsburgh didn't "tank" their last game by not dressing Crosby (against their hated rivals and dirty bastard Flyers) then everyone would be picking the Sens in the first round ... right Murray?Blah, blah, blah... back to the Leafs thread trolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rubberdinghy Posted April 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 I'm still picking them.Wagers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Here's an interesting article about why Fleury is going to blank the Sens I can't believe Fleury and the Penguins couldn't figure this out on their own. I could have told him that before the gold medal game in the World Junior championship game of 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 You should be dinghy you are a fan. I am just saying do you really expect them to be the favorites when they are in 7th and they have been one of the worst teams since january? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 no, jakis. nobody expects them to be the favourites; they are unanimously the underdogs in this series. i'm still picking them to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 and they really shouldn't be. Why would people pick them to win??Because we have this guy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 You should be dinghy you are a fan. I am just saying do you really expect them to be the favorites when they are in 7th and they have been one of the worst teams since january?Favourites? No. A chance? Of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 and leafs have this guy.. hahaha. oh ya they didn't make the playoffs for 3 straight years..damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 leafs thread please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 yer on dinghy!! same as last year? I'll have to look up the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted April 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 sure!I think we ended up even in the end...I can't remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSloth Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 For a team that's been accused of holding their sticks a little too tight when it comes to the playoffs maybe being heavily crapped on and counted out isn't the worst thing - then again Alfie and Fisher being out probably is.(I almost bet against them last night but came to my senses - or lost my senses, not sure which)Fucking Go Sens Go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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