I'm live tweeting the Penguins Senators tonight. This isn't the end of live bloggy goodness I just get to pay more attention to the game for a change than just keeping track of the conversation and the dick jokes.
A little interesting tidbit going into tonight's game. Ottawa's next 4 games are against the top 4 teams in the conference. If they wanted to legitimize themselves it might be a good time to string together some wins.
A little interesting tidbit going into tonight's game. Ottawa's next 4 games are against the top 4 teams in the conference. If they wanted to legitimize themselves it might be a good time to string together some wins.
Live Bloggy Goodness... Sort Of
1 Comments Published by Dany Heatley Speedwagon on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM.
I'm live tweeting the Battle of Ontario tonight. Yes, I'm to lazy to set up the chat window.
Live Bloggy Goodness: Ray Ray Edition
0 Comments Published by Dany Heatley Speedwagon on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:41 PM.
That's right kids... the Ottawa Senators are going to the city of brotherly love to battle their former brother in arms. Ray Emery will be backstopping the Philadelphia Flyers when the Senators come to visit thursday night. I can't think of a better excuse for a live blog (except maybe I don't seem to post much else lately). So come one come all, bring the funny. All the usual OBC rabble will be there as well as a few assorted guests. Hope to see you there. Game time is 7pm, TSN, the goodness starts 15 minutes before puck drop as always.
Live Bloggy Goodness: Game 13
0 Comments Published by Dany Heatley Speedwagon on Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 5:25 PM.
Ottawa Senators take on the Tampa Bay Lightning it what appears to be a weekly occurence now. Puck drops at 7:30pm EST, TSN2. As usual the live blog fun will start 15 minutes before puck drop. Please join us won't you? Some of the regular OBC rabble will be making an appearance as well maybe some of those fine folks from the BoO and the always hilarious Stay Classy crew. Remember as always, bring the funny.
Punch and pie not included.
Punch and pie not included.
Game Night: Boston Bruins
0 Comments Published by Dany Heatley Speedwagon on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM.
The "B" stands for Band-AidThe Boston Bruins bring their travelling road show to the Bank tonight. They are coming in a banged up team and this might bode well for a Senators squad that for the past few seasons has struggled against the big bad Bruins. (1-5 against the Bruins last year)
Boston is 4-4-1 on the young season and trying to re-establish themselves as a premier team in the East while both Marc Savard and Milan Lucic are making extended visits to the IR. As fellow OBC blogger SLC intimated "if we could somehow arrange for Tim Thomas to be victimized in a tragic, if non-lethal, mishap involving a piano and a Puerto Rican hooker, we're golden folks." With it still being early in the season and the Senators struggling to establish themselves as a contender, I'll settle for any advantage they can get.
Thursday's game against Nashville looked from the score to at least be an entertaining affair. At most it was probably the robbery of a pity point. Ottawa was down 3-0 early so you could say I was more than surprised to see the team was able to tie the game at 5 with seconds left to force the overtime.
Things of note from the game include the fact that the offence continues to be balanced with 5 different players tallying to make the extra frame possible. While a come from behind win in OT would have been glorious it was not to be since M.C. Hammer decided he'd celebrate his new 2 year deal by taking a break in the box for interference in the OT. (seriously? An interference call in OT? Don Cherry is rolling in his grave!) Mistakes happen and I'm not about to burn Carkner at the stake for taking a questionably bad penalty in OT because he recently signed a new deal. His minus 4 in the game was also not a brightspot but I think we need a little persepctive here.
I've been as surpsied by Matt Carkner as most since his surprising start to the season but listen to me when I say, Matt Carkner is just a guy. I didn't really expect huge things from Carkner going into the pre-season. He's been a career AHLer and no matter how dellusional some might be after his 7 game performance he won't even qualify for the Calder since he's the ripe old age of 29. I'm not knocking the guy at all. He was a pleasant surprise in the preseason and earned himself a role on this team. He brings a bit of fire with him to the lineup that I enjoy seeing and someone like him probably plays with a little chip on his shoulder since it's taken him so long to make the show, but again... he's just a guy. He signed a 2 year deal for $1.4 million. That doesn't even come CLOSE to the league minimum. Yes it's a one way deal and yes I don't quite understand the urgency on the Bryan's part to sign him so early into the new season but to tell you the truth I'm not losing a lot of sleep over the personel decisions regarding one M.C. Hammer. He's just a guy. People are blowing the idea of this "local boy done good" way out of proportion on both sides of the fence and lets wake up here...(say it with me) he's, just, a, guy. If the contract turns out to be bad let's remember, a $1.4 million "gamble" really pales in comparison to something like, ohhhhh, I don't know, maybe paying a quality goalie a little less than $600,000 a year, over 4 years, to play for any team not named "Senators".
So here we are, 5-3 on the season going into game number 9 at home against a banged up Bruins team. The Sens are probably surprising more than a few people early. Leclaire is looking like we hoped he would, the offence is balanced like we thought it could, (but perhaps lacking a little potentcy where we expected it should), Cheechoo is playing with hands of wood and oh yes, Alex Picard still makes me stabby.
A picture is worth a thousand goals against
The Many Faces Of J Mart
2 Comments Published by Dany Heatley Speedwagon on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM.
Now I'm sure many of you may have seen this somewhere before (and done a whole lot better), but I assure you, immitation is the sincerest form of flatery and originality is not my strong suit.
In honour of the Senators taking on the Habs tonight for the first time with J Mart behind the bench I present to you the many faces of J Mart.
For a guy with a reputation of showing very little emotion these pictures present a great deal of evidence to the contrary.
The "Rodney Dangerfield"
The "Your Attorney At Law"
The "So You See, I Had No Choice But To Cut Jason Spezza... Twice"
The "Pavarotti"
The "You Never Know What You'll Get From Google Images"
The "I'm Pretty Sure No One Can See Me Picking My Nose Here"
The "I Wonder What It Would Look Like If You Assembled A Team Comprised Entirely Of Midgets"
The "It's Going To Be A Pleasure Stealing Your Job"
The "Your Mind Powers Will Not Work On Me Boy"
The "I Haven't Looked It Up But I'm Pretty Sure You Can Win A Game With Just Defence"
The "Somebody Made A Stinky"
The "Mom! The Meatloaf! Fuck!"
4 Things About Last Night's Game
8 Comments Published by Dany Heatley Speedwagon on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 7:20 AM.
What I like to call "the better half"... of the deal1. That was the kind of game I've been waiting for. Everyone seemingly clicking together. Balanced scoring. Complete game (more or less).
2. All Hail Michalek. (Making the seperation anxiety that much easier)
3. Matt Carker desperately needs a nickname. (I vote M.C. Hammer... please Carkner don't hurt 'em)
4. As much as I like shorthanded goals I would't mind seeing a little more production on the PP. Of course it's hard to do that when you don't get many either. (I'm looking at you Zebras!)
