I could comment several posts but just going to generalize saying that this thread looks like a collective suicidal sect.
Reading the board, you'd think the Sens got absolutely destroyed and didn't even had 1 scoring chance, then you go check all the highlights from NHL.com and etc, and you see a 1-0 game where both goalies were very good. Al Montoya hasn't reached the NHL by luck. He's not the best goalie out there but he sure can put solid performances like he did saturday
I missed the game as I was gone for 3 days so maybe they really sucked overall but it still feels like a massive overeaction after seeing the highlights. Some games are boring, what can you do about it?
It sucks that the Sens aren't scoring more, but they are 2nd in NHL for goals against. It seems like they are doing the opposite of last year : they are sacrificing a bit of offense to be tighter defensively. Yes, our goalies are very very good but we give a lot of perimeter shots instead of high quality chances like we did last year, it's not even close.
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Originally Posted by ubbe
Thought Bishop, DaCosta and Wiercoch were the only ones who played decent today, rest looked like they didnt want to hustle to get the anything going.
And Greening and Michalek can't get much done without Spezza, maybe it's time to call some young forward up from bingo or something to get some competition going.. wouldn't hurt..
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Like Zibanejad or Da Costa? Ya it would be a good idea... Wait... ?
Not many other options... Stone, Petersson and Hoffman are injured, Prince and Pageau are still too raw. Grant wouldn't have a big impact right away
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Originally Posted by Cujomi
Maybe we haven't been watching the same team. The only legit game we've deserved to win since Spezza has been injured is the game in Montreal where we won 5 - 1...and that was largely just a special teams clinic.
Washington, Carolina, Montreal, Buffalo, Carolina and now tonight. We've looked terrible in all of those games as a whole (even with Karlsson playing out of his mind) and those are all middle to low end teams at best.
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Montreal : they lost 2-1 despite a disallowed goal that should have been a good one (everyone would agree except the ref). I thought that game was pretty fair. Montreal 1st goal was lucky and Andy misplayed it on their 2nd. Shots were 33-32 for the Sens and Montreal had to block 25 other shots (vs 12 for the Sens)
Buffalo : Wasn't andy best game but we were leading 4-1 at some point, it was a pretty easy win if you ask me... Shots 24-23 for the Sens, and Sabres had to block 5 more than the Sens
Carolina : absolutely dominated them, just that Cam Ward had the best goalie performance I have seen this year (and a bit of luck). Doesn't shock me, he's a very good goalie.
I'm not sure what you guys are expecting from a rebuilding team... Personally, my expectations are on par, I like what I'm seeing from a very young team missing his best forward and probably 2nd best D-man. I just hope they are going to score a little bit more, even if they have to sacrifice a bit of defense to do it
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Originally Posted by Cujomi
Yeah I was in the middle of posting about that. We've looked good in 1 of 7 games since Spezza has been out, and it was a game that was spent mostly on the PK or PP. Nothing really indicative of our play. As the sample grows we're really going to see how bad this team is without Spezza.
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Posters that know what is going already KNOW how important Spezza is to this team. You don't have to use that much bias or exagerate that much to help your argument, that has been "troll created" anyway. Don't worry about them
OF COURSE, our offense is carried by Spezza. Any team without its first line center should struggle. It forces the 2nd line center and other centers to face tougher competition. Thing is he is by far our best playmaker... Without Spezza, it's about a 0.5 goals less per game (over a bunch of games it hurts a lot)
