Recipe For A Mike Fisher Cold Streak

Written by Nichols

Monday, 25 January 2010 15:32

Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. ~ Hockey Gods to Mike Fisher

Some of you are probably wondering who the hell the guy is in the above photo. Frankly, I have no clue and assume it's some guy named Mike Fisher because it's the sixth image that came up in a Google image search under that name. Anyways, Don Brennan posted the line combinations on Off the Posts that the Senators used at practice this morning and will likely use in tomorrow night's game versus New Jersey.

According to the lines, Cory Clouston has taken it upon himself to shake it up and nullify any production that the team can get from good ol' number twelve. By placing Jason Spezza back on a line with Daniel Alfredsson and Milan Michalek, Fisher has been relegated to playing with Nick Foligno and (gulp) Jonathan Cheechoo.

If it's of any consolation to Fisher, he was named to Mike Brophy's second Canadian men's Olympic team. Congratulations for this disctinct honour Mike. It's almost as impressive as the fact that Mike Brophy justified his selection by stating that the Peterborough native is the perfect candidate to be the checking centre assigned to shutting down the opposition's top scoring line as well as kill penalties.

Yes. I'd love to see Mike Fisher out there killing penalties and shutting down the Latvian B-team's first line too.

Elliott Schadenfreude

If you haven't heard Brian Elliott was named the NHL's first star of the week. In Pascal Leclaire's absence, Elliott had 4 wins and allowed 5 goals out of 115 shots this week. Almost as impressive as being named the League's best statistical player for the week? Not being shit on by Bruce Garrioch once during this stretch of games. An Ottawa netminder first!

Pierre Lebrun on the Sens

Over at ESPN, there's a good article by Lebrun detailing the Senators recent run of success. The article can best be summarized in Lebrun's second last paragraph in which he states,

What strikes me about this edition of the Sens is the team concept is very strong. For a long time over the past decade, this team had oodles of talent, but I always believed it was top-heavy in terms of relying on certain players. Under Clouston, he's given more people roles, and I think that's a big reason the Sens have survived an injury-riddled season; the team's success isn't reliant on a handful of players like in the past. It's truly a team.

Apparently Melnyk's optimism is rubbing off lately...

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"Foligno's Fortune!"
written by Canucnik , January 25, 2010

Coach Nichols:

#41 gets exactly two shifts to get warm and then Alfie and #27 start the secret game plan...double shifts, confusing the opponent and giving Nicky Foligno a different look every shift he takes...and loving it...makes Nick feel like one of the boys!

Note: We want Neil and Carks out there together as the "Jerk" Andrew Peters, who will be "Konging it!" with Zubrus riding "shotgun!"

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Watch your "Mug Shots!"
written by Canucnik , January 25, 2010

Coach Nichols:

Mike Fisher, Cleveland tough guy, might even be a "Hitter!" Hangs around with Bruno and Geno. My age, uses the trumpet playing as a front, only the mob classically trains trumpet players anymore...can "do" a wedding two ways if required!!

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written by Nichols , January 25, 2010

@Nik:

I hear you, Fisher's versatile in the sense that he can function in either capacity right now and yes, I may be giving him too much credit for his torrid start to the year.

I guess I'm just a little surprised that Spezza hasn't really formulated any chemistry with his linemates since Heatley left.

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Perspective
written by McLernon , January 26, 2010

Lets look at the Fisher situation from a different perspective... We've got 2 lines that are going to have the top 2 d pairings from other teams on their asses. That leaves Fishers line, who we could call 2B minus Cheechoo unless he starts to produce a little more red light than a head of lettuce.

So we've got Foligno and Fisher, who have a good chemistry and the ability to produce offense. Both play the same hard fore-checking, crash the net type of style, as does Cheechoo(when he's not buffing the ice with his arse). Fisher is definitely second line material, Foligno is getting there... but in getting to the point of my ramble, we have a line that can and will produce offense due to the fact that it's going to have 3rd line defenders covering it most of the time.

This team is 1 good mean defender away from being very dangerous in the playoffs.

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written by Jerome Bastien , January 26, 2010

that's too bad. i thought the line combination against boston was brilliant because it gave 3 lines which can really do damage offensively and a strong 4th line in kelly/ruutuu and neil.

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