I agree but wasting the season this year and letting more of the bad habits get ingrained is just wrong
I think people need to understand how hard it is to play net when the structure infront of them is such a mess. Goalies start to cheat when they can't trust the players in infront and then also having to play constant odd man rushes and breakaways.
Lol, you have a case of Sens PTSD. No one is asking out; get a new coach and win games, and this whole narrative will change. Getting a new coach and finding some stability in the net should be the #1 and only priorities right now.
Which is why the color commentators are saying every game some variation of "I think [Korpisalo/Forsberg] would really love to have that one back" or "Your goaltender needs to make that save for you". The "structure" can be slightly deficient and you can have absolutely dogshit goaltending at the same time. As a matter of fact, from a psychological perspective, having dogshit goaltending is a lot harder on the skaters than the inverse.
I don't think the messaging is shoot the puck. Teams are exploiting us so hard on odd man rushes and puck battles
Getting a qualified coach will most definitely lead to a semblance of stability in the net.
I never disagreed with that.
I don't disagree with you, but this entire season, when we are in control of games, both of our goalies have let in and continue to let in backbreaking garbage that needs to change.
Do we have any evidence that this roster can play a well structured game for more than 3 games in a row?
Your original post was that we need to decide if this current core is fixable or bite the bullet and go back into another 5- to 10-year rebuild. Talking about a 5 to 10-year rebuild in year one of our rebuild being over is some sky-falling stuff
I have yet to see the Sens play a complete game for a handful of games. Many games we start out strong then fall off. It's not a way to succeed. Our 2nd periods are atrocious. Goalies also know they can't make mistakes cause this team has no ability to comeback when they are down
I have no such evidence but no one has evidence that this roster wouldn't drastically improve under a new voice either. I think you have to try that first before shipping a player out.
Look at the advanced stats.
How about Korpi? He has played decent for most of the year. The players keep playing terribly infront of him it won't get easier
Nilsson had a .911 sv% for us as a backup, had a 500 record despite playing behind some terrible teams. What was wrong with that contract?
I suspect you get a more structured game infront of them and their numbers will improve.
Yeah the goaltending has not been great but they are left hung out to dry way too much. Too many goalies look great before they get here and again after they leave for it to be just coincidence.
It's unbelievable. It'd be hard to have it work out this poorly if one actually had that as their goal.
None of the goalies we have signed recently looked good before coming here. Korpisalo was always streaky; he should not have gotten more than a 2-year deal. Now we are stuck with a contract that is impossible to move. Murray looked like total garbage before he got here, and he continued to look like total garbage after Dorion paid him assets and gave him infinite dollars. Forsberg was on waivers.
Murray was actually decent in Tor and the season before in Ott. He just always got injured. Korpi hasn't looked that bad here either. The structure has to improve considerably though. The amount off odd man rushes will kill anyones save %
I posted the advanced stats for Forsberg. The basic premise is that he's actually getting pretty good defensive play in front of him and is absolutely sucking ass. When the average shot you face is almost 37ft, which is 5th best among goalies with 10+ games played, that indicates that the team is mostly keeping shots to the outside. He's also first in expected goals against, which indicates the team playing in front of him is giving him every opportunity to keep pucks out of the net.
