Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

[Micklebot]

The rangers are free falling. Getting dominated by Philly

 

[Cosmix]

Seeing what Roy said about Lou, I can't begin to imagine how Roy and Dorion would have interacted if we hired Roy back in 2019. It would have been incredible.

Should have dumped Dorion long long ago!

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Playoff race is slowly running away. Too many teams ahead of us collecting points

 

[NinjaSens]

Outside of Carolina, the next 10 games are winnable. Sens need a strong streak, something like 7-3 and they'll be right into it.

 

[Wallet Inspector]

Sharks beat Kraken 8-5, they must have been pissed after their loss to us.

 

[Cosmix]

Playoff race is slowly running away. Too many teams ahead of us collecting points

We are not out of it at this time; however, if the team continues to play like crap as it did against San Jose, then they will not catch up.

I figure we need to get 10 points every 8 games to get in to the playoffs (100 points). We have 21 points in 22 games but should be trending to have 30 after playing 24 games.

If we win the next 2 games, we will have 25 after 24 games, 5 points behind a playoff pace.

This team has to smarten up fast. The game against San Jose was a major disappointment for me even though they won it. I don't have a lot of confidence in this team.

 

[Micklebot]

Playoff race is slowly running away. Too many teams ahead of us collecting points

Not a good day for the out of town scoreboard, seemed like everyone we are chasing either won or got a point in OT

 

[SpezDispenser]

I see Detroit was spoon fed a bag of shit, which is always nice

 

[Big Muddy]

Not a good day for the out of town scoreboard, seemed like everyone we are chasing either won or got a point in OT

Boston & Detroit lost.

 

[Loach]

Playoff race is slowly running away. Too many teams ahead of us collecting points

Even if they run off 4 wins in the next 4 games it'll only be worth like 1 or 2 places in the standings. To get a wild card is going to require an amazing stretch of hockey. Smh.

 

[Mr Hat]

Even if they run off 4 wins in the next 4 games it'll only be worth like 1 or 2 places in the standings. To get a wild card is going to require an amazing stretch of hockey. Smh.

They just need 2 wins with their games in hand to be in the middle of the wildcard race. But with so many teams close, chances are half these teams get some separation and we will see who the real threats are for that last spot. Just a matter of what side of this bipolar team we get more of.

If we get good goaltending and 5 on 5 for a stretch maybe we can recover, we aren’t good enough to rely on special teams and hot/cold goalies.

 

[Senscore]

Boston & Detroit lost.

Bruins wasted a good Swayman performance.


Those are a rare commodity these days

 

[mysens]

Boston & Detroit lost.

It's crazy that at this point of the season, we are already scoreboard watching. It's frightening to think we could be out of playoffs again and so so soon. This league is tough.

 

[Loach]

It's crazy that at this point of the season, we are already scoreboard watching. It's frightening to think we could be out of playoffs again and so so soon. This league is tough.

We are out. Not officially, but might aswell be. The only time this team has gone on the kind of run that they need right now is in March when they are already eliminated. We get all hyped and hope will cary over to the next season and then they shit the bed for the 6 weeks before Christmas. This is a reverse jinx. No they will win.

 

[Xspyrit]

It's crazy that at this point of the season, we are already scoreboard watching. It's frightening to think we could be out of playoffs again and so so soon. This league is tough.

It's a league where you can't afford to have a GM like Pierre Dorion for 7+ seasons. I and others were pulling the alarm in the 3rd season, but the 4 years the situation dragged on killed us.

It'll take almost a mircale to salvage contending years out of this rebuild and i starts with flawless work by the new GM. I can't say that it's looking good as of now

Joseph trade -> lose a 3rd and sign Amadio to a similar contract : huge LOSS
Brannstrom let go -> Hamonic plays almost every game
Perron signing
Cousins signing

Ullmark trade and extension hasn't paid yet but still could

Jensen acquisition is good but he's 34 y/o, only has 1 season left and we paid 26 y/o Jakob Chychrun to get him who has 7 goals, 14 pts in 18 games and is +11 with the surging Caps. Plus we paid 12th OA pick and two 2nd round picks to get him in the first place

 

[Big Muddy]

It's crazy that at this point of the season, we are already scoreboard watching. It's frightening to think we could be out of playoffs again and so so soon. This league is tough.

Its so hard when you have to leap frog several teams to reach the last wildcard seed. We need to win, but other teams need to lose as well. The law of probability works against us.

I oscillate between having some hope, and knowing that the mathematical odds are against us. It’s a special kind of sports fandom schizophrenia that Senator fans know all too well.

 

[Tuna99]

It's a league where you can't afford to have a GM like Pierre Dorion for 7+ seasons. I and others were pulling the alarm in the 3rd season, but the 4 years the situation dragged on killed us.

When he was appointment GM on day 1 He and he cried at his press conference about Bryan Murray and I knew then he didn’t have the emotional maturity to be a GM

 

[BigRig4]

When he was appointment GM on day 1 He and he cried at his press conference about Bryan Murray and I knew then he didn’t have the emotional maturity to be a GM

This is lame

 

[Icelevel]

It's a league where you can't afford to have a GM like Pierre Dorion for 7+ seasons. I and others were pulling the alarm in the 3rd season, but the 4 years the situation dragged on killed us.

It'll take almost a mircale to salvage contending years out of this rebuild and i starts with flawless work by the new GM. I can't say that it's looking good as of now

Joseph trade -> lose a 3rd and sign Amadio to a similar contract : huge LOSS
Brannstrom let go -> Hamonic plays almost every game
Perron signing
Cousins signing

Ullmark trade and extension hasn't paid yet but still could

Jensen acquisition is good but he's 34 y/o, only has 1 season left and we paid 26 y/o Jakob Chychrun to get him who has 7 goals, 14 pts in 18 games and is +11 with the surging Caps. Plus we paid 12th OA pick and two 2nd round picks to get him in the first place

3rd season?
I was pulling all the alarms in season 1.
But you’re right dohrion sunk us and now we have to crawl and dig ourselves out.
The season will look a lot better if we can win the next 2 or 3.

 

[Xspyrit]

3rd season?
I was pulling all the alarms in season 1.

Zibanejad trade? I was deluded into thinking it would be an isolated event

 

[Icelevel]

Zibanejad trade? I was deluded into thinking it would be an isolated event

I could tell he was an idiot every time he spoke. When Tim Murray left and they handed it to Pierre I knew we were in trouble.
It only got more obvious (and worse) every passing month.

2014 I see is when I was posting about what an a** kissing fool he was. So that’s 10 years ago! wow so much pain he put us through.
By 2017 I just wanted him fired.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

3rd season?
I was pulling all the alarms in season 1.
But you’re right dohrion sunk us and now we have to crawl and dig ourselves out.
The season will look a lot better if we can win the next 2 or 3.

It was bad from the start. If we consider that he traded up to draft Logan Brown just prior to divesting himself of Zibanejad, Zbad was probably in part made available from assuming he was drafting his new future #1 center. I saw it as much a miscalculation on Zbad as it was on Brown. It only got worse from there. How to leave yourself asset starved after 6 years of a scorched Earth rebuild by Pierre Dorion could be a good book. Almost all the shedding trades wasted other than Karlsson.

I could tell he was an idiot every time he spoke. When Tim Murray left and they handed it to Pierre I knew we were in trouble.
It only got more obvious (and worse) every passing month.

He was basically handed the keys to run an NHL franchise almost on his own, one devoid of internal support normally seen with an NHL team, when he clearly was not qualified and essentially a rookie. Of all the budget motivated hires by Melnyk, this was the most damaging.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Good tilt
Anderson gave Trouba everything he could handle and more

 

[Hale The Villain]

Sharks beat Kraken 8-5, they must have been pissed after their loss to us.

Not defending our pathetic effiort against them, but the Sharks offense is on fire right now.

18 goals scored in the last 3 games and it would have been 20+ if not for Ullmark.

 

[Micklebot]

Not defending our pathetic effiort against them, but the Sharks offense is on fire right now.

18 goals scored in the last 3 games and it would have been 20+ if not for Ullmark.

They are a better team than people who just look at the standings think, agree that it doesn't excuse our performance, but they have some talented forwards to be sure.