Potential to the Max

http://senators.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=3...

NHL confirms it

Play nice.

~Listen to the smart dog!

Bring back punctuation!

I dont know why you would like Sundin over Jokinen. Dont get me wrong, I like Sundin but with jokinen youre getting a few years. Sundin may come, odds are itll be one year, but after he goes, what do we have? We have no substantial first line centreicemen in-waiting.

Not sure I get you.

IF your point is that there is a difference between stating your opinion - or disagreement - and being obnoxious and shouting people down. I TOTALLY AGREE. Too many people think vitriolic attacks are okay. They're not. I appreciate learning from people - being wrong now and then is a sign you're learning.

But if your point is that YOU'RE right and everyone needs to realize it and bow down, well that's the opposite of the first point.

~Listen to the smart dog!

AHH Serge Savard. I like him, met him and his daughter a few times. I remember my favorite trade of his...Chris Chelios for Denis Savard.

I do agree with some of your points but i think your being a tad too dramatic with the whole "if gainey traded carey for a 10th round pick" comment. I also thought ryder should of been dealt at the deadline. Its easy to say he should of been packaged with huet but maybe the caps didn't want ryder. It takes 2 g.m's to want to make a trade. Its easy to bash the huet trade saying we should of gotten more but name a team who needed a goalie for the playoffs other than washington? You have to eliminate all the teams who missed the playoffs because none of them were gonna trade for a ufa goalie(especially their first round picks). So what team that made the playoffs last year needed a starting goalie? I'm sure gainey wanted a first round pick, but if there are only 1 or 2 teams that want him, well, what does gainey do besides take the best offer.

The only thing i don't like about gainey is that he doesn't maximize his assets. For example, i begged for gainey to trade souray at the deadline 2 years ago. After the deadline souray got like 5 or 6 points for the rest of the season and was about a -10(-3 in the last game of the season aginst the laffs. Even if we did make the playoffs that year we probably would of lost in the first round anyway. If he didn't want to trade him at the deadline, he should of did it before july 1st like nashville did with hartnell and timonen. I also felt the same way for streit this year, i knew gainey wasn't gonna keep. Maybe bob made some calls and nobody was interested, who knows, nobody does. I guess in short i hate losing quality players for nothing when we could at least get a draft pick.

I sat at the draft and shook my head when i heard the jokinen trade. I couldn't believe florida got so little for him and of course the gainey bashers were out in full force bashing away because gainey didn't get him. But don't forget maybe jacques martin didn't want to trade him to the habs (or any other eastern team) and have to face him at least 4 times a year. This wouldn't be the first time martin shipped a star player out west for a far lesser package(luongo for bertuzzi). Maybe gainey did make an offer but martin didn't want it. I doubt it though because gainey had his sights set on sundin and there is no way we could have both.

Its easy to be critical of gainey but just go take a look at the roster we had 5 years ago before gainey took over and you can easily see how far we have come.