Five home nights at Canadian Tire Centre in eight days

Any leaf or habs fans lurking here, enjoy your October while it lasts 😤 278 goals last year and we barely got going tbh. Flyers first, everyone else can watch and worry 🔥💪

Riding five straight home nights is tempting but I'd rather see the opening lines first, if Ottawa comes out around -160 against Nashville I'm on the moneyline, anything steeper and the puck line is where the value hides. Bookies already know this crowd's hot take, so the price on a leap past 99 points will be short. Lost C$150 last playoffs chasing a fat favourite, learned that lesson once. 💸

Me refreshing this thread hourly like the schedule's gonna change if I stare hard enough 🤣 October 10 better hurry up, my pint's getting warm 🍿

278 goals and they still scored at will most nights, the leap is on 🔥 CTC will be loud Oct 10, pint's already in the freezer Emma 🍻

Maybe I'm missing something but is everyone sure 278 goals means the leap is automatic? 😅 They gave up 246 too, and 9th place is still 9th. I'd take 44 wins again happily if the defence tightens up a touch... or am I being too careful here? 🙈 Riding with them anyway Oct 10!

Uncle_Guy got a point on the 246 against tbh, but that attack carries us regardless 😤 5 home nights, CTC rocking Oct 10, I'm backing past 99 🔥🙌

Uncle_Guy, thanks for saying it 🙈 246 against scares me more than the 278 excites me, honestly. Past 99 feels optimistic to me but I'll be cheering anyway Oct 10 🏒

Everywhere else fans panic when their team trades goals and mine just shrugs... cmon lads 😄 Yeah 246 against is ugly on paper, but games at the CTC turn into track meets when OUR boys have the puck all night, and five straight chances at that stadium in eight days?? 278 before October even melts, easy call for me 👊 Also nobody remembers what finish landed where in April, remember how those performances FELT... team was buzzing, crowd dragging em along 🔥 Mid-table in raw points doesn't scare me one bit. Home schedule stacked like this = ice advantage, fans shaking rinks. Plus folding at Belleville squad filling cupboards with fresh legs, GM wasn't asleep this summer... Take everything normal-goalie-wise health wise here 👀 and yeah worst case minus couple giveaway losses better this month equals how many teams regressed backwards eh? Last fall bunch sat thru watchn Oil-Mamlre Game 2 freakouts why would anyone imagine similar fun autumn land ours...

Can I ask a daft thing maybe 😅, everyone's saying the attack carries them, but doesn't a track meet only work if the other team misses their chances? 278 for, 246 against reads to me like they were in track meets all last year too and finished 9th anyway. I'd love to be wrong though 🙏

Katie that's fair but you're forgetting we had half the lineup hurt at some point last year, I watched too many nights where Stützle was dragging a bus shelter of a lineup around and STILL we got 44 wins 😤 Eight days at the CTC with everyone fresh? That's where the leap happens. Past 99, lock it in 🔥💪

But weren't half the league dealing with injuries too, Dave? Every fresh lineup still has to defend the 246 problem 🤔

Katie's got a point tbh but listen - I was at that wild 7-6 track meet vs Boston two seasons back, crowd like that drags the boys to another level 🔥 riding with the leap 🙌

Don't laugh, guys, but am I the only one who remembers the crowd dragging nobody anywhere when the Sens gave up 6 at the CTC last year? 😅 Beth's got a point - 246 against doesn't vanish because the arena's loud. Maybe I'm wrong and health fixes everything, but I'd want one defenceman added before I believe the leap 🤔

Back in my day we called these stretches "statement weeks" too, and the barn had a different name 😄 my old man used to say the standings in October are written in pencil for a reason. 44 wins got you 9th last spring, so pardon me if I wait a few games before picking a number. Could go either way, and that's half the fun.