GDT: GAME 68 | AVS @ SENS | One Foot In Front Of The Other - Avalanche, Matt Good | You Made Me Turn This Into A GDT Edition

[Senscore]

They asked him on the CIH pod, he said he just likes to pass more.

And the opposing teams all know this

 

[Ouroboros]

How did this guy get 35 goals 2 years ago?

Partly luck - I certainly don't think he has genuine 17% shooting talent.

But the biggest issue is that his attempts have plummeted. In his 39 goal season Stutzle attempted 442 shots in 78 games, which is 5.67 per game. This season he's at 265 attempts in 68 games, or 3.89 per game. That's more than a 30% drop.

 

[DrEasy]

How did this guy get 35 goals 2 years ago?

"Cherchez la injury".

 

[DylanSensFan]

I had guessed 5-2. There was never any chance of winning this game. Like...zero chance

I would have guessed we would have brought it to OT at the least. This was a blowout. Not sure why this team goes to sleep at times.

 

[CorrectOpinion]

I bet we don't have a game this bad again during the regular season.

 

[Senscore]

I bet we don't have a game this bad again during the regular season.

Now that's a real monkey's paw comment

 

[CorrectOpinion]

Now that's a real monkey's paw comment

*googles monkey's paw*

 

[Senscore]

*googles monkey's paw*

Just means you will be correct but in a way that results in even more dire consequences.


Dramatic irony and all that. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[SpezDispenser]

I would have guessed we would have brought it to OT at the least. This was a blowout. Not sure why this team goes to sleep at times.

I pvred this and before starting i thought i will be stunned if we win this and overjoyed with a point, but they'll beat us handily. Top 3 forwards in the world, top dman in the world coming off a tough loss. We were f***ed

 

[bicboi64]

How tf do we stay so competitive against an elite team like Washington, but then another team (not as elite but has elite players) like Colorado utterly embarrasses us?

Also, Staios needs to get a 3RD that can step up onto the 2nd pairing in the off season. Hamonic is so utterly trash when he's above the 3rd pairing and brings down his partners.

 

[DrEasy]

We may need another Hamburglar ceremony. The one we did was against the Sharks (I was there!), and it stopped our 5-game losing streak, and we were, if I'm not mistaken 7-0-1 starting with that game (I wasn't saying anything while we were on that streak, didn't want to jinx it). The effect is fading...

 

[CorrectOpinion]

Just means you will be correct but in a way that results in even more dire consequences.


Dramatic irony and all that. Be careful what you wish for.

Good lord. What have I done.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

How tf do we stay so competitive against an elite team like Washington, but then another team (not as elite but has elite players) like Colorado utterly embarrasses us?

Also, Staios needs to get a 3RD that can step up onto the 2nd pairing in the off season. Hamonic is so utterly trash when he's above the 3rd pairing and brings down his partners.

Colorado has tons of speed. Same reason why we struggle against Montreal. Caps are not the greatest skating team.

Zetterlund is a pretty good skater, use him more.

 

[Tuna99]

Ullmark giving me 2 day old fish vibes. Gettin’ kinda stinky in the crease

 

[Yak]

So I'll just vent here to get it out of my system just like the Senators hopefully got the bad hockey out of their system this week.


Ully goes from making a world-class save to a sad game.

The Top line has been M.I.A. this week, I guess injuries must be affecting it and teams focusing on shutting them down aren't having any issues because of that.

Would have been nice to see the defense bail out the goaltenders a little bit more, but that would have have been asking too much.

Someone needs to remind these guys that they're still hockey left to be played and that we have not guaranteed a playoff spot.

The boys have thrown out all their Goodwill in one week. One. Good week one bad week. Not sure I can handle this type of hockey with the playoffs near.

It was a royal ass whooping given by the AVS that I have not seen in a while. It makes me remember we are so close but yet so far away.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Stutzle has 2 shots on goal over the last 6 games.

Okay but that’s kinda stutzle lol. This isn’t a surprising stat. That’s what he is.

 

[Blotto71]

Well I wouldn’t do that.

He’s struggled mentally and on a team with not much offensive talent he will be counted on and that comes with fan expectation. Hes shown he legit can’t handle that and needs prolonged time off when he’s expected to contribute in any significant way.

I'm talking a Batherson-esque deal, not a "you're a superstar getting paid like one so produce like one deal". His game has evolved - he is a complementary offensive producer and plays a 200' defensive game. Holding his history from a 5 - 10yrs ago up as proof he's mentally fragile now is pretty narrow minded, imo.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

I'm talking a Batherson-esque deal, not a "you're a superstar getting paid like one so produce like one deal". His game has evolved - he is a complementary offensive producer and plays a 200' defensive game. Holding his history from a 5 - 10yrs ago up as proof he's mentally fragile now is pretty narrow minded, imo.

Hes a complementary offensive producer on the Avalanche. Hes likely the most talented offensive forward on our team. Whether he’s paid 1 million or 15 million he will end up being counted on.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

I shut it off at 4-0 so I missed Zetterlunds opportunities in the top 6.

How'd Zetterlund do when elevated to play with Stutzle and Tkachuk. 5v5 over twice as much time (7:39 w Stutzle) with them as with Gaudette and Highmore
He also had probably 3-4 shifts with Cozens and Batherson

Did he look like he was ready to break out with them?

Any good looks 5v5?

 

[Burrowsaurus]

I shut it off at 4-0 so I missed Zetterlunds opportunities in the top 6.

How'd Zetterlund do when elevated to play with Stutzle and Tkachuk. 5v5 over twice as much time (7:39 w Stutzle) with them as with Gaudette and Highmore
He also had probably 3-4 shifts with Cozens and Batherson

Did he look like he was ready to break out with them?

Any good looks 5v5?

Zetterlund was our only lively forward last night. And that continued into the third period

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Zetterlund was our only lively forward last night. And that continued into the third period

lively huh?

Did he help generate any offense when he was elevated in the lineup?

 

[Back in Black]

Wow, talk about pooping the bed.....

Thank god it's our month!!!!!!

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

	Goals against per game	Expected goals against per 60	High danger chances allowed per 60
Before March 1	2.89 (9th)	2.85 (9th)	10.63 (9th)
Since March 1	3.20 (19th)	3.21 (27th)	11.78 (24th)

Since March 1, the Senators had gone 7-1-1 before Colorado’s onslaught. Ottawa had been giving up three goals against per game this month entering play Thursday. In the first five months of the season they were allowing 2.76 goals per game.

Meanwhile, despite Ullmark’s outstanding heroics in a couple of recent games, most notably his 48-save performance against Detroit, his numbers have otherwise been average. Ullmark has a .889 save percentage, 3.55 goals against average and a negative-2.55 goals save above expected, according to Natural Stat Trick, since the 4 Nations Face-Off break.

One player who benefited from the poor start against the Avalanche was newly acquired Fabian Zetterlund, who got his first chance to play with Tkachuk and Tim Stutzle. Zetterlund had multiple chances in his elevated role but couldn’t connect. What will be interesting to see is what sticks now that Green has brought out the blender with line combinations.

 

[Micklebot]

Partly luck - I certainly don't think he has genuine 17% shooting talent.

But the biggest issue is that his attempts have plummeted. In his 39 goal season Stutzle attempted 442 shots in 78 games, which is 5.67 per game. This season he's at 265 attempts in 68 games, or 3.89 per game. That's more than a 30% drop.

The difference in Sh% two years ago to this year would have made a 4 goal difference, it's definitely the drop in shots that's the bigger culprit.

His sh% is actually pretty similar at 5v5, 13.5% this year, vs 14.6 two years ago. The drop is primarily from the PP where he's dropped from 15.6% down to 11.11% Shots on the PP are way down too, pacing at about half as many PP shots

 

[Alex1234]

Maybe the worst Sens player of this century in terms of how many minutes of absolute shit hockey he played for us.

Chabot away from Jensen is hard to watch
At least I’m not the one paying 10MM$ to watch it