Speculation: Predicting the Opening Day Lineup - PART 2

[Sweatred]

Standard negativity in full swing bright and early around here -

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Just wanted to share this gem from Garrioch's latest.

"On with the show this is it.

The Ottawa Senators training camp has come to a close and when they gather Thursday at the Canadian Tire Centre to prepare to face the Toronto Maple Leafs Friday night the focus will turn to preparing in earnest for the first two rounds of the Battle of Ontario which will continue Saturday."

Read that sentence out loud. This is a professional journalist of 20+ years.

Bruce at elementary school.

 

[Matsens15]

Bruce at elementary school.

No way! Brüce is the man! He is the senior advisor to Pierre Dorion! He even said on Twitter he had to take a course on how to use the umlaut on his computer! Lol. Pure dedication right there ! Let’s go Brüce !

 

[RAFI BOMB]

 

[Sens72]

How can White go from “he’s having a great camp” to skating with Galchenyuk and Haley on the 5th line.

 

[TheDebater]

How can White go from “he’s having a great camp” to skating with Galchenyuk and Haley on the 5th line.

In a perfect world, that is probably our 3rd line (minus Haley).

 

[HSF]

The problem with Haley on the taxi squad is that there is a good chance we'll see him with the big club. I have zero appetite seeing Haley playing for the Sens.

on the flip side those guys may not play for a long time and thus you would want depth players on there. I think most teams are doing the same putting vets who are fringe guys on their taxi squad

 

[Silencio]

on the flip side those guys may not play for a long time and thus you would want depth players on there. I think most teams are doing the same putting vets who are fringe guys on their taxi squad

Yeah I'd rather have prospects playing every other night in the AHL than sit for weeks doing nothing on the taxi squad.

 

[armani]

How can White go from “he’s having a great camp” to skating with Galchenyuk and Haley on the 5th line.

DJ is now starting to sound like Pierre"on the 8th day.." Dorion now. I will reserve my judgement until we see the opening day line-up tomorrow, I guess atm Tierney, Anisimov, Norris, Stepan, and Pacquette have all outplayed him. With little exposure to the training camp, we don't know what we don't.

 

[BatherSeason]

Yeah I'd rather have prospects playing every other night in the AHL than sit for weeks doing nothing on the taxi squad.

If Belleville's camp doesn't open soon, these guys may also be sitting for weeks.

 

[Sweatred]

Sounds like the practice lines are still the same from earlier in the week.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

wwwwhhhheeewwww that coburn-brown pairing. Matt Murray buckle up

 

[Sens Vader]

As per this morning's practice:

Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson
Stützle-Stepan-Dadonov
Paul-Tierney-C.Brown
Paquette-Anisimov-Watson

Galchenyuk-White-Haley

Chabot-Gudbranson
Wolanin-Zaitsev
Coburn-J.Brown

Reilly-Zub

Murray
Hogberg

 

[HSF]

nice to see wolanin in a top 4 spot think he is going to do work this year

I think coburn will move down the lineup quickly. Could just be a courtesy thing since he wanted to come here to try him out there like Toronto with Thornton on their top line. I suspect neither of these last and we see Reilly back

 

[Burrowsaurus]

wwwwhhhheeewwww that coburn-brown pairing. Matt Murray buckle up

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Since Pierre took over in 2016, he's produced 3 NHL regulars -Dzingel, Chabot and Tkachuk. That's 3 players in 5 years. Absolutely abysmal.

Honeslty. I don’t think that necessarily fair. He was drafting players in that time. (And now norris and batherson and wolanin are there)

BUT. Those players are essentially now ready to at least contribute. And he wants to keep them out

 

[Sweatred]

As per this morning's practice:

Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson
Stützle-Stepan-Dadonov
Paul-Tierney-C.Brown
Paquette-Anisimov-Watson

Galchenyuk-White-Haley

Chabot-Gudbranson
Wolanin-Zaitsev
Coburn-J.Brown

Reilly-Zub

Murray
Hogberg

^like^ .... alöt

 

[Masked]

wwwwhhhheeewwww that coburn-brown pairing. Matt Murray buckle up

With the players on the roster, I don't think it matters who is on the third pairing. A rebuilding team would probably play Brannstrom but we're just a team.

 

[Masked]

Honeslty. I don’t think that necessarily fair. He was drafting players in that time. (And now norris and batherson and wolanin are there)

BUT. Those players are essentially now ready to at least contribute. And he wants to keep them out

I think it's very fair. It's not like he came in fresh to the organization and had to rebuild from scratch. He was a big part of drafting the players he inherited when he took the reins.

We will see how long Norris, Batherson, and Wolanin last in the lineup before they get replaced by journeymen, either ones already on the roster or ones who are brought in for late round draft picks.

 

[BatherSeason]

nice to see wolanin in a top 4 spot think he is going to do work this year

When Zaitsev inevitably struggles, its Wolanin that's gonna be blamed.

 

[BatherSeason]

^like^ .... alöt

Do you actually like it a lot, or do you like it a lot because there is no Colin White?

 

[HSF]

When Zaitsev inevitably struggles, its Wolanin that's gonna be blamed.

think they compliment each other well

Let s see how rusty Wolanin is though dude hasnt played for a long time. He looked really good before injury though

bonus is that the North division has some pretty average defense groups

 

[BatherSeason]

think they compliment each other well

Let s see how rusty Wolanin is though dude hasnt played for a long time. He looked really good before injury though

Im not worried about Wolanin, the hatty at the scrimmage is a good sign that the rust has worn off. Zaitsev was terrible last year and wasn't any better when he played with the Leafs. I feel bad for Wolanain.

 

[Sweatred]

Do you actually like it a lot, or do you like it a lot because there is no Colin White?

I like it because they represent the current strength of the team. I’d like to see any player not in the lineup improve and force their way in.

It also has a safety net threaded in for 3 (virtual) rookies to play their first game and a Dman who hasn’t played in two years.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Did white even play bad.
A strong possibility is that it was white or norris or brown from the get go. They filled the other 3 center spots with stepan anisimov tierney. Paquette was mever not making it.
White may have been perfectly fine just not better than norris or batherson.

Smith always said right from the very start. There are only 3 spots available on the roster. Norris batherson and stutzle got those spots.