I Know I have been bashing the Sens a lot lately, however after reading what Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun reported yesterday (Wed 15th, 2010), I couldn’t really help but lay comment to this insanity. Anyway he reported that “Senators GM Bryan Murray would like to add a top-six forward or rugged winger but rival teams only want young players in exchange for older, expensive veterans, which is why Murray’s doubtful he’ll get a trade done.”
For me and just about every other person who knows what a puck is, it’s been very clear for a long time now that the window has already passed on this team which was in 2008. Since then they’ve been pretty much been calling it in as a group. What’s certain, is that it will only get worse and this delusional man of a GM seems to think they need to just “add a top-six forward or rugged winger “. That’s NEVER going to solve the Sens problems this year. I repeat, this is NEVER going to solve the problems with the Senators. This is a group that is under performing and clearly has a bad work ethic and an attitude problem. Spezza may be one of only 2 or 3 guys worth anything right now in a trade, but his defensive play has become really sad. He has no responsibility in his own end and at times has become a liability. For example, in the last week he scored the game tying goal in a beautiful play, only to make a piss poor giveaway for the game winner in OT. And this is your top centre man????? If this guy would work his tail off on both ends of the rink he has the talent to be the second coming of Yzerman, but he’s too one dimensional. He is however a great buy low candidate for someone rebuilding like Florida. Take a great coach who won’t put up with any crap and he’ll force Spezza to play great two-way hockey which will not only help his defensive game and teamwork skills that I would argue he has little of, but you’ll find he’ll start pulling in 90+ points a season on a frequent basis.
But anyway how Murray thinks trading the little prospects and youth he has left for yet another aging vet is really beyond me. Look around man, everyone else that has been successful since 2006 is built or building with young, hardworking talent. What’s your excuse?
Watch Murray’s next move is to add $2.5 million in salary over 2 years on a 35+ contract (so it counts regardless if he retires or not) as they go after Brian Roloston now that he’s on waivers and will be put on re-entry waivers in the next week.
For me and just about every other person who knows what a puck is, it’s been very clear for a long time now that the window has already passed on this team which was in 2008. Since then they’ve been pretty much been calling it in as a group. What’s certain, is that it will only get worse and this delusional man of a GM seems to think they need to just “add a top-six forward or rugged winger “. That’s NEVER going to solve the Sens problems this year. I repeat, this is NEVER going to solve the problems with the Senators. This is a group that is under performing and clearly has a bad work ethic and an attitude problem. Spezza may be one of only 2 or 3 guys worth anything right now in a trade, but his defensive play has become really sad. He has no responsibility in his own end and at times has become a liability. For example, in the last week he scored the game tying goal in a beautiful play, only to make a piss poor giveaway for the game winner in OT. And this is your top centre man????? If this guy would work his tail off on both ends of the rink he has the talent to be the second coming of Yzerman, but he’s too one dimensional. He is however a great buy low candidate for someone rebuilding like Florida. Take a great coach who won’t put up with any crap and he’ll force Spezza to play great two-way hockey which will not only help his defensive game and teamwork skills that I would argue he has little of, but you’ll find he’ll start pulling in 90+ points a season on a frequent basis.
But anyway how Murray thinks trading the little prospects and youth he has left for yet another aging vet is really beyond me. Look around man, everyone else that has been successful since 2006 is built or building with young, hardworking talent. What’s your excuse?
Watch Murray’s next move is to add $2.5 million in salary over 2 years on a 35+ contract (so it counts regardless if he retires or not) as they go after Brian Roloston now that he’s on waivers and will be put on re-entry waivers in the next week.
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