A few Thursday thoughts. We are six weeks out! Give or take...
-- One thing that's sort of still up in the air concerning the Ottawa Senators is what play-by-play/color analyst team will be working their games for TSN. Shortly after inking that massive regional rights deal with TSN, it was figured that longtime fixtures in Dean Brown and Denis Potvin would no longer be calling games for the club. I'm not sure what Brown's future holds, but we know Potvin's gone as of this morning -- he's
headed back to Florida, to work as a color analyst alongside Steve Goldstein. He bumps Bill Lindsay into the pre/post and interview role.
-- Kyle Turris, as of today, is twenty-five years old. Felt like just yesterday the Ottawa Senators were rolling the dice when they packaged puck-moving defenseman David Rundblad to Phoenix for his services. A few years later, he's emerged as a bona fide top-six center, as reliable a player as Paul MacLean has at every corner of the rink. He also has one of the best contracts
in the league, signed at just a $3.5MM AAV through 2018.
-- If you were making an all "best contract" team, I think Turris makes the cut. A pair of wingers in Montreal's
Max Pacioretty and Edmonton's
Taylor Hall are also on unbelievable deals.
-- ESPN's Corey Pronman recently produced his list of the top one-hundred prospects, which Graeme at
The 6th Sens wrote about here. Two players made the cut: Curtis Lazar, and Mark Stone.
-- I touched on this a few days ago, but the Ottawa blogosphere's putting together an event this weekend to bring fans together. You can read up on the mini-party and where to buy tickets
here -- lot of good people running this, so I'd guess it'll be money well spent for those of you still on the fence.
-- If you're looking for a thought-provoking stats piece, I very much enjoyed the
Providence Journal's story on Boston Red Sox reliever Burke Badenhop. He's using PitchF/X data -- found online -- to fine-tune his craft. Pretty cool stuff.
-- More 'fun with shot distances', this one looking at Ben Scrivens' 59-save shutout against San Jose. I remember people sort of praising Edmonton for doing a great job of keeping Sharks shooters to the outside that night. Just like a couple of days ago, look at how many shots were inside 30-feet. He was unbelievable that night.
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