Games tonight affecting Sens

[Knave]

I guess that Perron goal wasn't lucky enough for you?

Every team gets garbage goals. The kind of luck I'm talking about is being outplayed all game and somehow coming up with a regulation win. People are focusing on the coaching change and yeah they're playing a little bit better but a typical game they're still noticeably outplayed.

It's like the past few years for Ottawa only Ottawa would lose those games.

 

[PatrickEaves]

Every team gets garbage goals. The kind of luck I'm talking about is being outplayed all game and somehow coming up with a regulation win. People are focusing on the coaching change and yeah they're playing a little bit better but a typical game they're still noticeably outplayed.

It's like the past few years for Ottawa only Ottawa would lose those games.

Sometimes, like the Hammond run, you ride an incredible lucky streak into the playoffs.

Then you get blasted.

 

[Senscore]

Sometimes, like the Hammond run, you ride an incredible lucky streak into the playoffs.

Then you get blasted.

Had we gone with Anderson earlier and not got f***ED by the refs I wonder how that would have went down

 

[Relapsing]

Going into tonight's game we are:

12th in the league
6th in the conference
3rd in the division
Up by 3 on wild card teams
2 pts out of second place

Everyone and their mother plays tonight, of course, but no one can knock us out of 3rd place.

Massive opportunity ahead of us through Saturday. If the hockey gods bless us and our anointed knights continue their dominant play through the swamp that is Florida, well we just might leave that malarial hell hole first in the division.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Had we gone with Anderson earlier and not got f***ED by the refs I wonder how that would have went down

We'd have won that series. Hammond was awful in first two games.

 

[mianjo]

7pm
Buffalo v Columbus
Florida v Washington
Minnie v Boston
Pitts v NJD
Tampa v Ottawa
7:30 pm
NYI v Vegas
8pm
Winnie v Carolina
9pm
Utah v Philly
Calgary v TO
10pm
Seattle v Detroit
10:30pm
San Jose v Montreal

 

[GCK]

We are probably getting smoked tonight. 3 in 4 with a rusty goalie. 5-1 Bolts.

 

[mianjo]

After 1
Buffalo 1 v Columbus 0
Florida 1 v Washington 1
Minnie 0 v Boston 0
Pitts 0 v NJD 1
Tampa 0 Ottawa 1

 

[mianjo]

In 2nd
Buffalo 3 v Columbus 1
Florida 2 v Washington 2
Minnie 0 v Boston 2
Pitts 1 v NJD 2
Tampa 2 Ottawa 2
NYI 1 v Vegas 0
In 1st
Winnie 1 v Carolina 0

 

[mianjo]

In 3rd
Florida 3 v Washington 6 FINAL
Tampa 4 Ottawa 3 FINAL
Buffalo 3 v Columbus 2 FINAL
Minnie 0 v Boston 3 FINAL
Pitts 2 v NJD 3 OT FINAL
NYI 2 v Vegas 1 FINAL
Winnie 3 v Carolina 0 FINAL
Philly 2 Utah 3 FINAL
Toronto 6 Calgary 3 FINAL
Seattle 4 Detroit 5 on penalties FINAL
San Jose 3 Montreal 4 FINAL

 

[Mr Hat]

Need wings to lose in regulation and tonight’s loss will be mostly irrelevant as long as we take the second game against lightning.

 

[SensHulk]

Isn’t this the wings 2nd 7 game winning streak in the last 1.5 months? Craziness

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Pretty garbage night.

 

[DrEasy]

Our end of the season stretch isn't going to be "easy", if it's going to be full of teams battling for the playoffs! After the trade deadline, we're playing:

- CBJ 3 times: they're going to be in the dogfight and will probably be buying at the deadline. Certainly not easy!

- DET twice: same as above

- MTL twice: we need them to keep losing now, so they give up and become sellers at the deadline

- PHI twice: this is looking good for us

- BUF twice: same as PHI, although they're on a 4 game winning streak, so who knows.

- NJ, TAM, FLO, BOS, NYR each once. None of these teams will be sellers at the playoffs.

- PIT: probably sellers.

It only really gets "easy" the last three games, where we're at home and playing PHI (probably sellers), CHI (sellers, bad team), CAR (last game of the season, they will be resting their big guns). If we can hang in there till then, imagine the atmosphere at the CTC for these last games!

 

[Wallet Inspector]

I just find it annoying, for the last two seasons, the wild card race was really weak, but Sens couldn't take advantage.

NOW the Sens are legitimately playing well, but the competition is actually strong.

 

[Hale The Villain]

Wow the Wings actually won a game by outplaying the opposition

Congrats to them I guess

 

[DrEasy]

F$%@# MTL won in regulation.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Wow the Wings actually won a game by outplaying the opposition

Congrats to them I guess

Seattle is so weird, they're one of the only bottom 10 teams that's outperforming both their xGF and xGA. Do they just have an insanely talented core that finishes so well and are held back by coaching or something else?

 

[lang006]

While they did beat the Habs and Leafs last week, I thought for sure Minny would do something against Boston seeing that Sens had blasted them on the weekend. But no of course not. Shut out again. Where was that "angry team to play against" factor when we need it. I guess the Wild threw in the towel for the road trip and were just eager to return home.

Also Vegas. For shame. Way to come into CLB, NYR and NYI and give up two points each game.

Have I mentioned I hate scoreboard watching yet at the same time it is good to be in a position where it matters again.

 

[SanderSen]

We'd have won that series. Hammond was awful in first two games.

At the time it made me think about the journeyman golfer that has a great first 3 days at a big or major tournament but when they have to play on the 4th day for the first time, with all the pressure and spotlight their game falls off.

 

[CanadianHockey]

Scoreboard watching has only reinforced my view that Ottawa controls it's own destiny this year (re making playoffs). The teams chasing us are all winning, and with so many remaining games being against those very teams, the Sens have nobody to blame but themselves if they end up missing.

 

[guyzeur]

Scoreboard watching has only reinforced my view that Ottawa controls it's own destiny this year (re making playoffs). The teams chasing us are all winning, and with so many remaining games being against those very teams, the Sens have nobody to blame but themselves if they end up missing.

Injuries will have nothing with this??

 

[Butchy Dakkar]

Sure would like some of those points we squandered in Oct/Nov…

 

[bicboi64]

- PIT: probably sellers.

Hope we can get some spare parts from the Pens. Dubas is pretty meh on his trades and it'd be nice to be on the opposite side of a trade with him.

Rakell, Bunting, Acciari, etc., loads of guys that could be a good fit in our middle 6