GDT: GAME 60 | Senators @ Capitals | No Candy for Ovy Edition | Mon March 3 2025, 6:30PM | TSN5, TVAS

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batherson also has like zero shame. He can be the cause of like 9 goals against and the next time he gets The puck he’s going toe drag into a back hand saucer pass to nobody.

I hate bad goals, playing well after giving one up though will always be a positive not a negative
After 1 sure. Not after several
 
It's almost always been this way. It's been over 2 decades since the Senators have had a 'deep' team and that roster was constructed under an entirely different economic landscape.

Batherson is not a bad player. He's a limited player with some substantial flaws.

When the substantial flaws are something fully in your control (effort, paying attention to details in your own end, making bonehead decisions over and over), I think that's pretty indicting. I'd be less critical if he just didn't have foot speed or something.

Maybe I shouldn't of said "bad". Let me rephrase. If he's a player you're counting on, you're not ever going to win.

If someone asked me, "what player best represents why the Senators have been a non-playoff team for so long", I'd point to Batherson.

He's a player who'll put up good numbers on a team that wants a high draft pick. Hopefully we can trade him to Nashville or Pittsburgh, or somewhere like that.
 
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When the substantial flaws are something fully in your control (effort, paying attention to details in your own end, making bonehead decisions over and over), I think that's pretty indicting. I'd be less critical if he just didn't have foot speed or something.

Maybe I shouldn't of said "bad". Let me rephrase. If he's a player you're counting on, you're not ever going to win.

If someone asked me, "what player best represents why the Senators have been a non-playoff team for so long", I'd point to Batherson.
His primary problem is low IQ/no feel for playing the game the right way. You can't fix that, all you can do is limit it with a stifling system which is pretty much what Travis Green has done this year.

You can live with it or you can try to move him for a different type of player, but you aren't going to change him. Not now.
 

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