GDT: Golden Knights @ Sens - Monthy Python edition - 7:00pm (11:00pm London, UK time) - TSN 5

[Pierre from Orleans]

Agreed. Credit to DJ Smith. I don't remember this team ever quitting on him. He knows how to get the team going.

He gets them going in the wrong direction

 

[swiftwin]

Best coach on the planet
Yet they always make mistakes on all the data site giving him a record of 81-104-24 instead of his actual 200-2-2

I disagree. I don't think he's the best coach on the planet. But I think he's pretty good. I would take Trotz over him in a heartbeat though.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Attendance:
16,043

Good.

 

[Big Muddy]

I guess the positives are

1. New lines looked like a bit of chemistry happening
2. Talbot looked good

Ya, and they keep fighting and come back. Got to reduce the errors and digging such a big hole for themselves though.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Agreed. Credit to DJ Smith. I don't remember this team ever quitting on him. He knows how to get the team going.

You seem like a fun dude to get stoned with

 

[GCK]

Yeah if you remove the bad defensive plays we look alright defensively.

There is a difference between an easily identifiable single player mistake and overall team defence.

 

[K1900L]

Whereas the Giroux-Stützle-Tkachuk line looked absolutely fantastic, the Batherson-Pinto-DeBrincat line looked rather bad.
Genuinely don't know how the guys will cope with this mentally. We are exactly where we were last year and two years ago. Playing with heart but losing a lot.

 

[GCK]

3 egregious turnovers have resulted in goals. It doesn’t matter what happens on the ice same player/coach will be the target of all criticism. Blaming defensive zone play is just a convenient way to toss it back on the coach.

It’s either intellectually dishonest or they don’t understand the game. Pretty sure it’s the former not the latter.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

How about that Zaitsev.

He got Talbot a standing O

 

[L'Aveuglette]

Games like these where we rally to almost tie it up after a horrendous period are dangerous because they give a false impression of competitiveness as well as more leeway for a bad coach to keep his position.

We really don't have the luxury of patience here as we could be out of it by December with no chance of passing 5 good teams in the Atlantic.

 

[Speatleysson]

Another pathetic loss. DJ your time is up.. we need a hard ass coach to get these players coordinated.

 

[swiftwin]

You seem like a fun dude to get stoned with

Who says I'm not stoned right now?

 

[Burrowsaurus]

There is a difference between an easily identifiable single player mistake and overall team defence.

Don’t think we were great or good defensively. The individual gaffes aside. Looked the same as everything else except our offense was going tonight. We obviously disagree.

 

[Senovision]

If we could get our penalty minutes down to to 5 minutes a game like Vegas instead of 14 minutes a game ( league leading...not a good stat to be leading in) we would see some different results. Way too many miscues and penalties.

 

[Korpse]

Better than Chabot? Chabot has no pace on the powerplay which completely kills his ability to QB regardless of the goal count.

Quinn Hughes hasn't scored a PP goal during the regular season since Jan 2, 2020. 166 games. Fox hasn't since March 6th, 2021. 122 games. PP's are designed to create lateral plays, if your metric is how often they score, not many defensemen are going to appear good. I'm not sure what you mean by no pace, it's a PP, he is waiting for other players to get to their spot. I don't think Chabot is a great PP QB, there's better out there but I also don't see the issue with him there. Nor do I think a player who has 2 goals in 125 games (they came in back to back games btw) is going to solve your issue of not scoring enough.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Who says I'm not stoned right now?

Makes sense given the stuff you said tonight

 

[Very Stable Genius]

Games like these where we rally to almost tie it up after a horrendous period are dangerous because they give a false impression of competitiveness as well as more leeway for a bad coach to keep his position.

We really don't have the luxury of patience here as we could be out of it by December with no chance of passing 5 good teams in the Atlantic.

It's almost like the classic Ottawa way, play their best when the games are meaningless.

 

[Nova Stutzlia]

If they play like they did tonight, they'll do well in the next 10 games.

 

[L'Aveuglette]

It’s either intellectually dishonest or they don’t understand the game. Pretty sure it’s the former not the latter.

Lol you're such a smart guy eh?

Maybe some of us look at the overall picture and see how Dj Smith just can't seem to get his players to play a consistent game, much less have them not looking like lost sheep in the D zone.

 

[NyQuil]

So Bedard?

 

[swiftwin]

It's almost like the classic Ottawa way, play their best when the games are meaningless.

They'll learn. This is a young team with many years ahead of them.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

If they play like they did tonight, they'll do well in the next 10 games.

If they play like they did tonight they'll concede 5 goals and lose by 1.

 

[GCK]

Lol you're such a smart guy eh?

Maybe some of us look at the overall picture and see how Dj Smith just can't seem to get his players to play a consistent game, much less have them not looking like lost sheep in the D zone.

You’ve selected your narrative and you are sticking to it no matter the overwhelming evidence you are wrong. They have been terrible defensively in 3 games this year, tonight wasn’t one of them.

 

[bicboi64]

So Bedard?

Or we can be shitty for Fantilli

 

[L'Aveuglette]

You’ve selected your narrative and you are sticking to it no matter the overwhelming evidence you are wrong. They have been terrible defensively in 3 games this year, tonight wasn’t one of them.

Easy to stick with the narrative when the play on the ice reflects it.

We've been terrible defensively aside from maybe 3 games. Maybe you need to check your own narrative selection.