Yea, it's often a tiny margin to make the playoffs or not. We definitely could have made it in other years if things had broken one way vs the other. We just had everything break against us multiple years in a row.
Games Tonight Affecting Sens
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ottawagm
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So nice to not stress about the scores of 5 different games per night now that we made it. I haven't followed that many teams in years.
I'm glad you're not stressed anymore, but I have been saying for weeks now that the impact of other games was so marginal it wasn't worth tracking.
ottawagm
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Can never trust this team and we got lucky that all of the teams chasing us played 500 hockey for a month.
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Is Martin St-Louis really doing a better job than DJ Smith did defensively?
I think just Habs have solid goaltending and good finishing this season. They also got their cupboards full for the future.
Maybe he isn’t.
Would be interesting to compare 24-25 Habs defence to 22-23 Sens defence.
Last year doesn’t matter korpisalo was not going to let us do anything.
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Ugh....
Chabot-Zub
Sanderson-Hamonic
Brannstrom-Holden
extras JBD-Zaitsev
vs
Hutson-Struble
Matheson-Carrier
Guhle-Savard
Xhejak
I'd give the edge to Mtl tbh, everyone except maybe Xhejak is better than Hamonic, JBD and Zaitsev, arguably Brannstrom too. Most are better than Holden that year too.
I meant defensive metrics haha.
And remember we got chychrun towards the end of the year
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Oh, sorry, I thought you meant personnel since that's what the coaches have to work with. Yeah, we had Chychrun for 12 games, not going to have a big impact because of the sample I suspect,
MTL(25) vs Ott (23)
GA/60 2.78 vs 2.82
xGA/60 2.87 vs 2.63
SCA/60 29.4 vs 29.12
HDCA/60 12.12 vs 11.76
Ottawa having the advantage in all those metrics except actual goals against.
Yeah the biggest thing for the Habs is Montambahlt emerging as a goalie. And doves solid backup
The only watching we had was the Panthers and they have won (despite being without some of their top players) enough to ensure we will finish in a wildcard spot.
Tonight will go a long way to determining which wildcard spot.
Tonight will go a long way to determining which wildcard spot.
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Yea we'll know who they want to play based on how they come out tonight. If they have no energy again, even after the last game, then they want WSH.
I'm not so sure it's all about energy.
The team, outside of the goaltenders, have been in a bit of a funk for a while now.
I think we need the PK to be on fire tonight, and the PP to finally get going.
5 on 5 we should be alright.
