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So them Sabres. Undefeated in regulation, but we're on a tear!! I'm sure we'll just rip them apart...

Well, since I'm the positive spin guy I will just say that I remember thinking the same thing in 06/07 vs. the Sabres early in the season and we managed to beat them quite handily. Never say never Matt. They could surprise you. Playing scared can sometimes help shake a team back to reality. Hey Sens - Your not an Elite team anymore.

I remember that game. Didn't Phillips score?

My fondest Sabres/Sens Tilt was the one from this past January... When the Sens came back down 3-1, and scored a shorty from a break with Vermette and McAmmond. And then 2 minutes later, Alfie tied. And then 42 seconds later, Volchy SCORES his FIRST goal of the season to make it 4-3 and then 18 seconds after that, Alfie scores again on a wicked slapper from the atop the blue line to make it a 5-3! I STILL have that game PVR'd! LOL

How can't it be Alfie's OT gamewinner to send us to the SCF??

Words cannot describe it.

PS, no one in chat today?

mattbond wrote:How can't it be Alfie's OT gamewinner to send us to the SCF??

Words cannot describe it.

Oh yeah, I'll always remember that one.
Except, my wife deleted that one from our PVR.

mattbond wrote:How can't it be Alfie's OT gamewinner to send us to the SCF??

Words cannot describe it.

Yup, I almost cried that day.. but was saving it for after we won the next round... Well they are still waiting to come out! LOL

There may have been some tears of joy on my part. I'm not ashamed.

nor am I!! I screamed SO loud and ran outside and lit up a smoke and just screamed WOO HOO at the top of my lungs! That was an awesome day!

I was at that Irish pub in the Kanata Centrum with the HD projector. (Grace O'Malleys?) At the time I was standing just off to the right, but with a great view. Beer in hand. It looked like a nothing play, but when it went in, it was as though time stood still for a moment. The place went silent, and then erupted as though we all realized at the same time it was in. You couldn't hear yourself think for a SOLID 10 minutes after that.

Alfie is a god.

mattbond wrote:How can't it be Alfie's OT gamewinner to send us to the SCF??

Words cannot describe it.

I remember that one too. I was in a bar, just outside Buffalo. It was awesome. The Sabres fans were very graceful.

Good idea, I've been thinking about something like this for a while.

Bring in any topic, any time, any team and I'm sure you'll get a big time discussion going in here.

Sticky this Clutch!

EDIT: Ah ha, I see you already did.

I still remember game one against New Jersey in '98. Bruce Gardiner scored the OT winner in game 1. I was at the bingo hall will my wife and my walkman. They had to stop the bingo cause myself and a few others were jumping up and down and screaming. Awesome!!

hemlock34 wrote:I still remember game one against New Jersey in '98. Bruce Gardiner scored the OT winner in game 1. I was at the bingo hall will my wife and my walkman. They had to stop the bingo cause myself and a few others were jumping up and down and screaming. Awesome!!

Yeah I was game 1 of the year we lost to the Devils in the East finals.. When Shaun Van Allen scored on a beauty pass from Havlat in Overtime, the place just exploded, never had I heard an Ottawa crowd that loud! I was proud that night! it's too bad we lost the next 3 games though! LOL

smash88 wrote:

hemlock34 wrote:I still remember game one against New Jersey in '98. Bruce Gardiner scored the OT winner in game 1. I was at the bingo hall will my wife and my walkman. They had to stop the bingo cause myself and a few others were jumping up and down and screaming. Awesome!!

Yeah I was game 1 of the year we lost to the Devils in the East finals.. When Shaun Van Allen scored on a beauty pass from Havlat in Overtime, the place just exploded, never had I heard an Ottawa crowd that loud! I was proud that night! it's too bad we lost the next 3 games though! LOL

That game 7 was the biggest heartbreaker for me. That Friesen goal with about 2 mins left nearly brought me to tears. The team has fought back to tie it up (Bonk) and had all the momentum. I still loathe Friesen to this day.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Well, since I'm the positive spin guy I will just say that I remember thinking the same thing in 06/07 vs. the Sabres early in the season and we managed to beat them quite handily. Never say never Matt. They could surprise you. Playing scared can sometimes help shake a team back to reality. Hey Sens - Your not an Elite team anymore.

Woohoo. Two gold stars for me :D

Oh Clutchie, you are so wise. I'll never doubt you again.

Not wise, just always have a positive slant on the Sens. If you ever start feeling negative about them and need a lift just read my blogs or I'll cheer you up with a little positve outlook :D

I was getting pretty down on them. It's amazing what one decisive victory can do (for now).

Keep the faith dude. Just remember the season they had from October to December in 06/07 and what happened after that. They should turn it around with the talent they have. Give them a top six forward and get decent goaltending from Auld and Elliot and we should do OK this season. I'm not kidding myself into thinking we could go to the Finals this season but we should be able to make the playoffs and get out of the first round anyway right?

On paper this team is still a contender IMO. If they can come together, gel, and buy into a system there's telling how far they could go.

On paper, they're not that much worse than the team that made it to the finals that year. However, while we've seen how well this group can perform, we've also seen the other end of that spectrum.

To me, this team could end up anywhere from last to first to anywhere in between, and I have no idea what to expect anymore.

I couldn't agree more. I think Hartsburg's message may just finally be getting through to the players. If this team worked as hard as a team like Washington they'd be elite right now.

We've got a lot of heart-and-soul hard working players. It's not a stretch to think we could play at the same level as Washington (effort wise).

The problem is it's very taxing mentally and physically to be at that level all the time.

Come on guys. 1 more freakin' member and we hit 100!! I wanna do this freakin' draw so I can award the BallCap I ordered, which is on it's way BTW. You can check it out here at the Online Store. You can also find the link for the store in the top right corner of the main page just under the Blog links.

Would it be suspicious if someone registered under the name "mattbond2"?

As bad as I want that 100th member lets not resort to that LOL.

It was worth a shot.

Hey Matt,

Did you get my PM suggestion?

Yes I did. And I just replied.

OK, so I'm in the general Hockey Chat thread again. I was hoping this would be a place to come and discuss whatever's on your mind. Kinda like most of us did over in KLee's old blog comment section. Come on in guys lets get a convo going like the old days.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:OK, so I'm in the general Hockey Chat thread again. I was hoping this would be a place to come and discuss whatever's on your mind. Kinda like most of us did over in KLee's old blog comment section. Come on in guys lets get a convo going like the old days.

So I see we got our 100th member!

Yup and the winner was pgood. I just PM'd him and I already posted it in the anouncement in This Just In.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Yup and the winner was pgood. I just PM'd him and I already posted it in the anouncement in This Just In.

Cool, congrats Pgood....

On another note. Can you all see this icon in the posts?

So any juicey rumours for our Thursday morning?

Finally! Let the hat-draw begin!

Cap'n Clutch wrote:On another note. Can you all see this icon in the posts?

I can see the icon in your post, but still nothing next to the Quote button.