Monday, February 2, 2009

The Daily Wrap Up - Monday February 2, 2009

I'm sure most of you will be killing off the Super Bowl hangover, so until you are ready to eat solids again, you can get caught up with the Senators.

Canada.com - After the Senators lost to Columbus on Saturday, the relatively unknown Jan Hejda decided to take a shot at Spezza.
Afterward, Jackets defenceman Jan Hejda said it "seemed like (Spezza) didn't want to play."

"I don't really care what the guy says," he (Spezza) said. "We're working here and trying to win some hockey games. They didn't have very many chances, either.
This kind of came out of nowhere, and is really being over-blown.  It's a young player who is trying to make a name for himself.  Anyone heard of him before this? I have, but that's just because he is a free agent in my hockey pool with a very high plus-minus.  We are lucky to have a talent like Spezza, and I wish that everyone would take a huge breath, relax, and wait for the draft.  Pretty soon we might actually have some talent in the top six to take some pressure off Spezza.

TSN.ca - The power rankings are out and the Senators climb to the 26th spot this week

Hart: Dany Heatley
Norris: Filip Kuba
Vezina: Brian Elliott
Selke: Chris Kelly
Calder: Brian Lee
Breakthrough: Alexandre Picard
Disappointment: Jason Spezza
Key Injuries: D Anton Volchenkov (shoulder).
It's kind of sad that Brian Elliott is this teams Vezina candidate after playing eight games.  Also, I would remove Alexandre Picard from 'breakthrough' and put in Brian Lee.  Other than that, pretty much bang on.

and that's the daily wrap up!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You guys don't like Alexandre, he is the only one of the kids who can take a hit and deliver a hit.
Discount that fool "Chris Neil" (In the middle going backwards, out of cintrol) over the years that's about five of our guys he's knocked out of the game!
Alex is our only "D"man who plays positionally well; over time people will come to appreciate this "Fundamental".

Anonymous said...

Picard's alright. I would definitely take heatley out of there. He's just so unbelievably one dimensional it's pathetic. And that one dimension isn't "offense" or "scoring" it's one-timing the puck. I think Heatley's much better, but definitely in the same vein as Cheechoo. Hopefully we can move him and have a quick return to repectability, and even more important for me, entertaining hockey.