Thursday, November 27, 2008

Increased traffic means increased posting I guess...

It's game day and I am sitting here procrastinating one of three papers. I figure it should write itself based on my disconnected thoughts, but telepathy can only go so far. Instead I chose to cruise the sites and see what was in the wind.

1) Bouwmeester is one of the big names on the blueline that Murray would like to see. JC at SensChirp.ca has posted about it twice now in a short period of time, but now it just remains to be seen if we get a shot at him or not. I'll revist this throughout the post.

2) Jacques Martin's problems with Ottawa. That was between Mucks and him to be at all honest. Martin would be insane not to want to cultivate some of the young talent that comes out of Ottawa knowing full well the potential our scouts have. He may not have liked or agreed with Spezza when he was younger, but it is hard to argue -- for example only -- that Spezza is leagues ahead of the average player. What is Martin looking for?

3) Vermette, Lee & 1st or 2nd round pick. That's what it is going to take just to get J-Bo into a Sens jersey. Atop of that there needs to have some cap space cleared in the big club just to accomidate him.

4) Already I have read one account stating that Richardson is now on Waivers. His small salary could be enough to soften up the cap space for a trade, but truthfully Luke should have retired last year ... He wasn't terrible, but the game is just out of his legs really.

So what's all this business about trade rumours in Ottawa? Murray has been shopping around. He is looking for a blueliner and will continue to do so. No doubt he wants another top six forward, but the reality is that the Sens need to have less shots going to their net and more puck movement up the ice in shorter periods of time.

More to come as it comes out I suppose.... and of course, my post-game reaction after the Sens and Leafs battle tonight.

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