Sens #1 Line Needs Wake-Up Call
05/29/07 at 08:40 AM ET | Comments (0)
from Chris Stevenson of the Ottawa Sun,
The Ducks hammered the Senators, knocked them down, hacked them, pounded them.
The Senators absorbed it all and, to their credit, gave some back, but were clearly overmatched in the Ducks’ 3-2 win.
This is what was expected, right?
Nothing pretty here among the palm trees, no cosmetic enhancements for which L.A. is famous, just hard slogging for the Senators against a big, hard-working team.
The Senators might be perceived as the faster of the two teams, but there were good stretches when they were outplayed at even strength last night by the Western Conference champions
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Ottawa Has To Be Better
05/29/07 at 08:35 AM ET | Comments (0)
from Scott Burnside at ESPN,
The biggest question will be how the Senators respond to what we can only assume will be more of the same physical play from the big, fast and strong Ducks….
The Senators were also guilty of egregious giveaways—the official scorers had the Senators with 14 compared to just five for the Ducks.
“Probably a combination of being off for nine days and just trying to do too much,” Mike Comrie said of the uncharacteristically sloppy play. “I think we played in spurts, but obviously, it wasn’t enough. In the playoffs, you have to have a short memory and we’ll go over video. We’ll look at what we did and we’ll move on.”
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Fans Back Ducks
05/29/07 at 08:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
from Helene Elliott of the LA Times,
These fans, part of the Ducks’ 32nd consecutive sellout crowd, cared that the Ducks improved their home playoff record to 8-2. The players sensed it and fed off it and loved it.
“We’ve been taking some heat, especially from the Canadian media, about what the crowds are like here,” Ducks defenseman Sean O’Donnell said, “and I think anyone that was in the building, whether the home team or not, felt the chills in there.”
That’s chills as in spine-tingling, not as in cold shoulder.
“They were really into it,” Giguere said of the fans. “The people that are here right now are knowledgeable. They love the game. The price they pay for a ticket, they’d better like the game.
“It puts you into the game and it’s exciting. It really helps you when they’re for you, that’s for sure.”
more (reg. req.)
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Go Behind The Scenes At The SCF
05/29/07 at 12:34 AM ET | Comments (0)
And I do mean great. A bunch of behind the scenes video shot by the NHL.com writers. Some great video using a Flip Video camera.
Note- at times the server may be busy, so try again…
See an example of the video…
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Complete Transcript Of Gary Bettman Interview Before The SCF
05/29/07 at 12:09 AM ET | Comments (0)
Q. What’s going to happen with Nashville?
COMMISSIONER BETTMAN: What’s going to happen with Nashville? We have an application by the club for Craig Leipold to sell the Nashville Predators to Jim Balsillie. That is a process that requires us to do some more due diligence, even though we did some in Pittsburgh, we have more to do.
It will require a three-quarter approval by the Board of Governors in terms of whether or not Mr. Balsillie as an owner and this transaction should be approved.
The Predators have a lease that goes, I think, for another 14 years, give or take. There is a possibility that the lease could terminate in a year if certain things do or don’t happen. But as far as we’re concerned right now, Mr. Balsillie’s request for approval and the transaction related solely to him buying the Nashville Predators subject to whatever lease is in effect, and if, in fact, at some point the lease is terminated and he seeks to relocate the franchise, that is something that would have to be considered under the league’s constitution and bylaws at the time.
Q. Would you be concerned of the perception that it could be a foregone conclusion or a self-fulfilling prophecy that the franchise would be moved?
COMMISSIONER BETTMAN: That’s why I answered the question the way I did. I’m hoping to dispel the perception. If the attendance mark is satisfied, even if it’s not, if the city cures what would then be the default, this team is not going anywhere.
There is a lease, and sports leagues aren’t in the practice of letting teams violate their leases. I believe Mr. Balsillie understands that and it’s conceivable that this team will be in Nashville for as long as its lease, however long that may be.
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Bettman Steps Up
05/28/07 at 11:49 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Accordingly, it took a brave man to set foot in front of the assembled media hordes Monday and extol the virtue of the product that he was selling. That was commissioner Gary Bettman’s duty Monday and true to form, he stayed mostly on message — that while things were not perfect, the NHL’s challenges were “a mere fraction of what they were a few years ago.”
The most revealing moments came when Bettman talked about Canada and the possible return of the NHL north of the 49th parallel. Bettman essentially said the possibility of a return to the two markets that the NHL left in the 1990s — Winnipeg and Quebec — “intrigues me” and that while it isn’t something they’ve studied, “it seems to me more likely than it was two, three, four or five years ago.”
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KK Issues
05/28/07 at 11:44 PM ET | Comments (0)
Sorry for the outage tonight. My host had some serious database problems and it was a problem for every website on the system.
Not sure if it is 100% up yet, but it appears to be coming back…
added 10:16pm, from my hosting company, technical if you want to read what happened…
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Bettman Media Conference
05/28/07 at 08:29 PM ET | Comments (0)
Listening in on the NHL media conference with Gary Bettman.
Raw blogging…
Nashville has a lease and if certain criteria is met, they will not be moving. Bettman believes Balsillie is aware of that.
No decision on Tocchet until he is sentenced in August.
We may see more teams opening up the season in Europe.
Talked about lack of media, Bettman states sports editors are cutting costs and the industry is covering games in a different manner these days.
Discussed playing more games in October, thereby ending the season a little earlier.
Dick Ebersol, head on NBC sports was there, chimed in NBC got “caught” with the Preakness games.
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Sens Should Roll
05/28/07 at 07:59 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Al Strachan at Fox Sports,
But there is still that nagging doubt, even though it’s a lot smaller than it used to be, concerning the Senators’ ability to get up off the canvas and deliver a knockout blow.
In every other area, though, they’re the superior team.
There are those who still keep insisting that goaltender Ray Emery is suspect. But there’s almost nothing to choose between the goals-against averages of Emery and Jean-Sebastien Giguere, and unlike Giguere, Emery actually makes some saves.
Giguere, with his inflated padding, simply slides back and forth across the crease like a goalie in a table hockey game and by virtue of his monstrous equipment, leaves the shooter with no view of the net. He’s not a goalie; he’s a human eclipse.
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Maloney Gets GM Title In Phoenix
05/28/07 at 06:46 PM ET | Comments (0)
via the Arizona Republic,
The Coyotes will name Don Maloney as their general manager at news conference Tuesday. He will replace Michael Barnett.
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