JULY 6TH

How about Don Phelps ripping Dany Heatley in the Calgary Sun this morning? For the sake of my fantasy keeper league he can whine all he wants but he better not end up in Europe as the guy who had Radulov found out KHL points don't count.

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Speaking of my keeper league the guys on the 'Baber Red Eyes' better watch out as he had both Alexei Cherapanov and Luc Bourdon. Keep your head up Mike Cammalleri.

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Went camping on the weekend so I let the mind wonder a little bit and I decided camping, to me, is like the Ottawa Senators.

You have Dany Heatley who is like sitting around a camp fire. It's great, he scores 50 goals and what's better than sitting there watching a fire it's sort of the best part of camping.

You don't really get cell phone coverage which is kind of like Jason Spezza. It's wonderful not to have to worry about work calling you but sometimes you'd like to check in on the world as much as the home teams goaltender would like to see Jason wonder on back into his own defensive zone every now and again.

You can go fishing. Fishing is fun. Daniel Alfredson is fun. No one argues he's a good player but he's the captain of a team who's locker room is obviously a mess. Same kind of mess as having to clean the boat, clean the fish and wash that fish smell off your hands.

The weather is pretty much any Sens goalie over the years. Sometimes terrific and sometimes just downright horrible. What are you going to do?

Wade Redden is definitely water skiing. It used to be good but now it's all about Wake boarding.

I had a really good one for Chris Phillips but can't remember it for the life of me. Either way it ended up with me posting a link to him scoring on himself. Feel free to fast forward to 1:47.

Individually all of these things are pretty good but put them together and they don't make the playoffs. I don't like camping. I don't really get it. I don't find it relaxing but the wife does so camping we go.

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67 more days until opening faceoff.

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Do the Pontiacs really have to play at 8:30 on Friday night of the Showcase and then 1:30 on Saturday afternoon? Ouch.