Xspyrit
DJ Dorion
Which is why they give up Hamonic's bobble heads, it is to promote the Ham sandwich with a gin tonic savor
Low Effort GDT LA Kings vs. Ottawa Senators (RDS2, TSN5)
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Which is why they give up Hamonic's bobble heads, it is to promote the Ham sandwich with a gin tonic savor
frightenedinmatenum2
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You're better than half the defense coaches we have had over the last 7 years. You're hired.
Xspyrit
DJ Dorion
Yeah I have been saying it for a while, it is really the same scapegoating situation again, both were not perfect players but still highly talented. Which is also why you need good coaching because they are able to build a game plan around their players strengths and weaknesses.,
Just remove Chabot and Norris from this team and suddenly we lack talent big time.
Yes and it was an obvious play. In my book, forcing a rebound is a smart play because depending on the angle/context, the goalie is forced to re-direct the puck in certain areas of the ice. It could have been dangerous or could have created offensive zone time if the 3 Sens players were not in la-la land.
I don't disagree here, I think it's known/recognized that Chabot weakness is that he doesn't engage contact enough. Maybe he's scared to get injured again. We really need better defenders, Chabot has to be used in offensive situations as much as possible. To make it worse, Zub misses a lot of games.
The Jensen addition is good but ideally he'd be on our 3rd pairing RD as this stage of his career, if we were contenders.
I wonder if we're trying to sign Shattenkirk. He's a RHD with a ton of experience and much better defensively than he was long time ago. He would be asked to not do too much offensively and seriously, would do a much better job than Hamonic who I'd be fine with him being the 7th D)
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SpezDispenser
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Meh, I'd prefer a net rush. There should be a guy closing in on the net before he muffins it, but I certainly don't mind the idea behind the play. Especially if you think Keumper looks shaky, get the rebound, maybe shoot immediately, maybe hold it.
That said, I see an opportunity to rim it around there, which should have been the move, but we're micro examining the play at this point.
NyQuil
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What's weird is that I distinctly remember him having a bit of a nasty streak early on in his career despite his average size.
That seems to have disappeared entirely.
It's still hard to accurately assess our defence when our goaltending puts on a performance like they did.
A good goalie will wallpaper over some of the glaring mistakes, but in a game like yesterday, every single one seemingly ends up in the back of the net.
Yesterday was a carbon copy of some of the games we had last season, only we didn't come back every single time they scored.
Alex1234
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I thought Chabot didn't play that sequence that bad and even back checked effectively.
Its the constant rimming around the board to an opponent at our blue line for a dangerous turnover that is infuriating from a veteran with a letter
NyQuil
Big F$&*in Q
Not to focus too much on this one play, but no forward should be able to just drive to the front of the net unfettered like that.
That real estate has to be fought for.
The missed shot from the sharp angle is something I remember Mike Fisher doing when he’d try to pick that far corner and it would lead to a 3 on 2 against.
It was probably his only really annoying quality.
No you're wrong. Green has coached this game really, really, really well!
Perhaps it is his height. If he put on another 250 lbs, we might be impressed with his width too. Might make him a superlative tender!
And the Senators are playing like? Choose one of the below:
a. diarrhea
b. donkeys
c. rich young kids
d. uncoachable assholes
e. all of the above
This game became a track meet because of all 3 goalies involved. There were a couple each way that were tough deflections but honestly with NHL standard goaltending Sens would win 4-3 or so. Once it became 4-4 by the halfway point both teams were in scramble mode so I don’t think much is worth analyzing out of it.
Tuna99
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Our depth Gregor, Amadio, Kleven, Jensen, Cousins, Zach MacDavid, won us that game and that was probably the difference in the push we had. Our star players won it, but those depth guys have all played well since game 1 and why we have 2 wins
Sun God Nika
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guy is a seasoned loser, just coasted the whole play didn't even enter the scrum after his goalie was bumped.
Micklebot
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him coasting wasn't an issue at all, he moved more than fast enough to pick up his man on the play, and get body position on him by the blue line. The issue is that he got caught puck watching after getting in position and allowed his man to sneak around him while he wasn't looking, he needed to be all over him and tie up that stick instead of watching the guy Batherson was keeping to the outside.
Sens expected goals against down this year. Top 10 so far.
Expected goals for are unfortunately down as well. But that’s not the worst thing. They’re going defence first.
Expected goals for are unfortunately down as well. But that’s not the worst thing. They’re going defence first.
Micklebot
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Hard to get a read after just 3 games, particularly with the performance we saw from Sogaard and Forsberg the other night.
xGA (2.24/60 this year vs 2.64) are way down, xGF (2.41/60 this year vs 2.55) a touch down. Again, hard to read too much out of that given it's only 3 games.
