Sen Fans Forum 2013

[Guest Low Roller]

I may post stream of consciousness thoughts about hockey that people may not agree with, but you troll and pick arguments as your jolly. We each got our thing.

[ollie]

Being a Habs fan, if anything, makes you bilingual by necessity, and therefore much smarter.

You speak French?

[TheSloth]

I don’t think you know what stream of consciousness means because if you did then you'd understand that you just confirmed what I've been trying to point out to you.

Noun

1.A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow.

2.A literary style in which one's thoughts and feelings are depicted in a continuous and uninterrupted flow.

This is what you posted (and I'm not trolling you, I’m legitimately trying to get you to understand)

Spezza going under the knife... announcement at 11.

If that's your stream of consciousness then you’re happy another person is having serious back surgery, all in the name of a sport we watch for fun and that's classless. You never want to see someone seriously hurt. Knocked out of the game after a big hit, yeah, great hit, but never season ending serious surgery. You think anyone would be happy if Markov got hurt? Christ, I'd love to see that guy play a full season.

Fans chanting and taunting a losing team isn’t classless, it's fandom at its best. Philly fans cheering when Micheal Irvin broke his back was classless.

It's bizarre can't you differentiate all of this.

Anyway, Im not saying Im bailing so you won't respond, I was just letting you know I don't have time to try and be funny and burn your ass.

[Guest Low Roller]

Being a Habs fan' date=' if anything, makes you bilingual by necessity, and therefore much smarter.[/quote']

You speak French?

I sure do. I did Grade 1-10 at a private French school in Montreal.

[Guest Low Roller]

I wasn't happy that Spezza was injured. That wasn't my intention. The only time I am happy that a player is injured is when it is Crosby.

[c-towns]

I would chuckle if markov got hurt again.

[Guest Low Roller]

As a Habs fan, all we can do is laugh at historical steady stream of injuries to our players, especially Markov.

[Booche]

KOIVU HAD CANCER YOU INSENSITIVE BASTARD!

[TheSloth]

When that was going down I was totally hoping he'd die.

Also Ollie, you're awesome.

[Booche]

A polish dude who speaks french is like an Irishman who drinks wine.

[Guest Low Roller]

A man named Bouchard who speaks no French is like an Irishman who does not drink or fight.

[ollie]

10 games left in the Finnish regular season. #Sens Karlsson still has a 11 point lead in defenseman scoring. Has 30GP, others in Top 5 43-46

Edited February 2, 2013 by Guest

[rubberdinghy]

So...that was interesting eh...

[Guest Low Roller]

That disallowed goal probably should have counted.

[Freak By Night]

Anyone wanna join me for the game this Saturday against the Jets? 2pm start, cheap seats.

[rubberdinghy]

Thankfully I decided to stay at home and cry during that game FBN...

[Freak By Night]

That game on Saturday was truly snooze inducing.

Last night's game was better!

[Booche]

This is not from The Onion. I repeat, this is not from The Onion.

In an effort to minimize the number of Maple Leaf fans at Ottawa Senators home games, the Senators recently sent an email to season-ticket holders.

The message told Senators subscribers they could get first dibs on additional tickets to Leaf games in Ottawa at a 20 per cent discount. But the access and price reduction came with a catch.

“We are asking you to ensure that the tickets are used by Senators fans and not re-sold to the general public,†the email said. “Any seats being re-sold will be subject to cancellation and loss of privileges with respect to future additional ticket pre-sales.â€

The thrust of the campaign, the email later summarized, was to “not allow (tickets) to get into the hands of fans for our rivals.â€

Such is the quality of sports-wise ideas emerging from the national capital region. Prime Minister Stephen Harper allegedly crafted his due-in-the-fall hockey book by spending most of a decade working each day for 15 minutes. The Senators’ marketing department appears to have mulled its brain wave to banish Leaf fans for all of 15 seconds.

At least Harper’s publisher enlisted the help of a great scribe, Roy MacGregor, to perform suspiciously vague “editorial services.†The Senators, apparently bereft of a wise set of eyes, are suddenly being exposed for their minor-league small-mindedness. “I hope it’s a joke,†said Rick Loveless, the Ottawa fan who dresses up for games as the red, furry “Sensquatch.â€

Sorry, Mr. Bigfoot — just because it’s laughable doesn’t make it untrue. The Senators said a spokesperson was unavailable for comment and didn’t respond to a request for a copy of its email to subscribers. But the missive, obtained by the Star, outlined the Ottawa franchise’s plans for a campaign to “Take Back The Bank†— as in, home arena ScotiaBank Place.

“In past years, some of our key rivalry games have had many of the opposing team’s fans in attendance,†went the email. “We are taking steps to change that but we need your help.†Let us assure Senators fans that help is not on the way, and change is most certainly not going to come — at least, not for the better.

Now that a certain mob of blue-and-white-clad fanatics is aware it’s not wanted in Bytown on Feb. 23 — the next time their heroes are scheduled to visit the Senators — what are the odds they don’t descend in formidable numbers?

They’d best behave themselves. Leaf fans have been accused of rowdy behaviour on previous trips to Ottawa. The Senators, apparently responding to complaints from their fan base, have vowed to hire extra security for rivalry matches.

“It doesn’t burn anybody worse than me to see drunken guys walking around, bullying people,†Senators owner Eugene Melnyk told local reporters in the wake of a Leafs game about a year ago.

It all sounds preposterous coming from a franchise that was bankrupt a decade ago and plays in a middle-of-nowhere parking-lot rat shack where, by my eyewitness estimation, a half-hearted R.I.D.E. sweep could land great numbers of its car-bound faithful a roadside suspension or worse.

It’s disingenuous to suggest Leafs fans are the only ones overindulging, or that this issue is unique to the Battle of Ontario.

The Senators appear to have cribbed the anti-Leaf-fan undertaking from another fledgling sports franchise in another soulless government town. This past baseball season, the Washington Nationals embarked on a plan to keep fans of the Philadelphia Phillies away from Nationals home games. Recent Nationals-Phillies crowds in D.C. had been populated by two-thirds Philly fans, some of whom had brought along a sign: “Welcome to Citizens Bank Park South.â€

The Nationals vowed to “Take Back the Park.†They tried to block sales of tickets from outside the capital area, just as the Arizona Cardinals had previously tried to limit out-of-state sales to stymie travelling fans of the Green Bay Packers, just as the Senators have previously attempted to block Leaf fans from purchasing ducats in the days when Toronto and Ottawa met regularly in the post-season.

Perhaps there are those in D.C. who will claim the Nationals’ initiative was a success. It certainly didn’t dissuade Phillies fans from travelling en masse.

“It inspired a lot of Philly fans — we made it a point of going that weekend,†said Kyle Scott, a Philly fan and blogger. “I don’t want to say it backfired (on the Nationals) — I think it’s a good way to rile up your own fans. But in the long run, to me, these sorts of things look a little Mickey Mouse. You wind up with everyone on the outside laughing at you, and your own fans, your hard-core fans, rolling their eyes.â€

Certainly there are other franchises that have to deal with the enormity of a Maple Leafs fan base that comes attached to the club’s near-century-old heritage. As the man behind the Sensquatch pointed out, “Every arena in the league pretty much has Leaf fans.â€

The Buffalo Sabres, for instance, have long lived with the influx of visiting humanity when Toronto’s NHL team arrives at First Niagara Center. But the Sabres aren’t considering a take-back-our-seats grouse-fest. For one thing, Sabres president Ted Black said, he can’t begrudge Buffalo fans who sell their tickets at a premium to Leafs fans; there are Buffalo loyalists who finance a portion of a season’s worth of seats doing just that.

“As long as the Leafs fans leave two points and their money at the door, we welcome them any time,†Black said with a laugh. “I’m not going to lie. When you lose, you hate it. . . . But I look at it as a positive. It’s almost like a collegiate atmosphere, an energy in the building that’s hard to replicate. For anyone that’s discouraged by it, the best thing we can do is make our tickets so valuable that people don’t want to sell them.â€

In other words, if the Senators are perturbed that so many Leaf fans boo Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson in his own barn, they need to win more games to woo more fans. Instead, they’re wasting time going to war against a little thing called the Internet. There’s a secondary market out there that’s unregulated and uncontrollable. Trying to direct of the flow of tickets is futile, not to mention insulting to Ottawa fans.

“I think it’s like standing in front of a wave with your arms out and saying, ‘Stop.’ It just doesn’t. You can’t do it,†said Black, speaking not of Ottawa’s situation but of Buffalo’s view of Leafs Nation. “People who want to follow their teams are going to find a way to get a ticket.â€

Now that the Senators have made it known they’re attempting to stop an impending wave from Leafland — well, a week Saturday it’ll be fun to watch them try. All they can do now is call in the extra security, brace for the tsunami and buy earplugs for their beloved, beleaguered Alfie.

[Kanada Kev]

LOL ... that does sound like it's straight out of The Onion

Are they going to ask broadcasters not to mic the crowd noise at games next

Mickey Mouse is right?

Fuel the fire ... it's gonna be bluer than ever there for the next match.

[Freak By Night]

A little context is necessary here: the e-mail was not entirely about this subject, there were many other points of interest to ticket holders in the e-mail as well. Also, the Maple Leafs were not specifically mentioned in the e-mail.

I thought the gist of keeping fans of other teams away to be a little odd. If a fan of another team comes to a game, they have just as much right to cheer for their team as I do. The way to minimize the presence of Leafs fans at at the game is for the Senators to consistently beat the Leafs on the ice. But the Leafs look strong and fast so far this year.

My friend has been the 'alcohol compliance manager' at SBP since the late 90s. She told me Leafs fans give them the most problems with alcohol violations. Hence the added security.

[AD]

Yeah, it's a boneheaded move by the ticket staff. Anyone can buy a ticket and cheer for whoever they want. If I buy a ticket, I can re-sell it to whoever I want (assuming I'm not scalping, etc). So dumb.

Although they are attracting a lot of free PR, so maybe not totally dumb......

[Hal Johnson]

Edited February 14, 2013 by Guest

[Davey Boy 2.0]

r'oh oh!

[Freak By Night]

match

Cricket forum please!

[Booche]

Jesus. Sorry about this boys. I know all too well how you are most likely feeling this morning. I truly hope Karlsson makes a full recovery and doesnt lose a step because he is excitingasfuck to watch.

::awaitsRoller'sEKwinkyface::