Pre-Game Talk: Senators vs. Penguins | Game 3 | PIT leads 2-0 | 7:30pm start

[YouGotAStuGoing]

Just win.

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[Quo]

Agreed. Winning is an altogether positive end which we should strive for with all of our strength and know-how.

Make it so.

I have hopes, neither too high nor too low, that Spezza will make a significant difference here. Our goose is not yet cooked.

 

[pageaus tooth]

Isn't it Galley that says you are never in trouble until you lose on home ice. Take it one game at a time and stay confident. We did not have our best efforts and we were very much still in both of those games.
I would think Gryba will be back in the lineup as will Spezza. Go Sens Go!

 

[Benjamin]

Are there any updates on Wiercioch, Gryba or Hoffman?

 

[Dana Scully]

I think we take this one.

 

[SanderSen]

Benoit had a good game, don't have a problem if he stays in. 16 minutes, +2 on the night.

 

[Anth]

I feel like we will win the next one.

 

[Vaclav Varada]

Be scared Penguins, HE'S COMING!

 

[GoSensGo6172]

Hahaha oh how we missed Spezza!!

 

[Stonewall]

Despite what Pens fans say, the dead silence at their arena is unbearable. Let's change that!

 

[Countdown0]

Sens DJ needs to play this ===> before the game, and when the intermissions are about to end. Get the epic feeling going on.

The Spez Dispenser is back. We aren't out of this series until the Pens win 4 games. Let's not make that easy for them. Let's break their hearts.

 

[DylanSensFan]

I suggested that Ottawa will win this series in 6 games and I still believe it. I remember in 2007 when we ousted Pitts and then went on to the Stanley Cup final, I remember a few years later when they did the same to us. Ottawa is the underdog in this situation no doubt... but we have a team of players who have been doing this all year long without Spezza, Karlsson, Anderson or the like. It is time for everyone to step up, time for every Ottawa Senator to be a hero.

 

[tehdee]

when's the last series we came back from 0-2?!
not baiting--- genuinely curious.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

when's the last series we came back from 0-2?!
not baiting--- genuinely curious.

I don't think we ever have.

 

[Vaclav Varada]

when's the last series we came back from 0-2?!
not baiting--- genuinely curious.

I don't think we ever have. I could be wrong, I'm a bit 'WasTeD' right now.

 

[EK65IsAGod]

Despite what Pens fans say, the dead silence at their arena is unbearable. Let's change that!

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[Vaclav Varada]

Truer words have never been spoken.

Butitsjustthetvthatmakesitseemquiet!

 

[Dana Scully]

Despite what Pens fans say, the dead silence at their arena is unbearable. Let's change that!

Seriously. The series is lacking intensity as it is. The dead quiet crowd makes it worse.

Glad we're coming home and get to listen to our crowd now.

 

[mcnorth]

 

[dingbatz]

Haha. This picture is the best.

 

[Spez]

The team has only come back to tie a series once when down 0-2 back in 2000 vs the leafs. Of course the next 2 games the team blew it by trying to trap instead of continuing to pressure the leafs. Jacques Martin and Tom Barraso cost the team that series.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Title in Series

People don't understand the importance Spezza brings because not only does he improve our PP tenfolds as well as our offense.

Spezza also draws their top defensive pairing to us. Turris can be able to DISECT the Engelland-Murray pairing and I'd throw Pageau's line against Orpik and Niskanen and watch the speed eat them alive.

Ottawa now has a real advantage of tearing apart the Pittsburgh defense and with Vokoun being shakey as it is, bury them. Pressuring their defense which leads to slower transitions and their forwards taking more energy helping their defense.

The home-ice advantage can enable us to destroy the 3rd pairing for Pitts and Spezza will be able to pay his dues against Letang's pairing who crumble against high pressured forwards using skill to beat them.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

As far as lines go:

Greening-Spezza-Michalek
Silfverberg-Pageau-Alfredsson
Conacher-Turris-Zibanejad
Latendresse-Smith-Neil

 

[Milan the God*]

Start giving Crosby facewashes and some jabs in the jaw. Seriously. This is hockey, he's out there playing, he should expect the same type of treatment any player gets.

 

[Dana Scully]

Start giving Crosby facewashes and some jabs in the jaw. Seriously. This is hockey, he's out there playing, he should expect the same type of treatment any player gets.

Even though we tend to get penalties for breathing on him, I support this.