notbias
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- Feb 16, 2017
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I'll never understand why people come up with these team arguments when talking about a player individually. Hockey is definitely a team game, you have 18 skaters and a goalie having various impacts on a game.
As an individual, he needed Zub to put up good numbers, overall he was alright, but with Zub he was good.
The thing with Ottawa is some people (not just Sens fans) crowned them too fast without looking at who was managing them. I declared after 7 games in the 2020-21 season that they would NOT go anywhere as long as Pierre Dorion was the GM and DJ Smith was the coach. Rest is history, and here we are now after Dorion dilapidated a huge part of this team's potential.
I just don't think Ottawa as a team is as good as their fans think.
Regarding the reasons why Ottawa struggled : coaching, goaltending, health (Norris and Chabot have been injured a lot these last few years, Stutzle had a bad season for his ability as he played injured all year, etc) and bad support/depth/roster poorly constructed. Jake Sanderson was 21 y/o and it's clear when watching the games how good he is.
Tkachuk being overrated.
Stutzle being overrated.
Sanderson being overrated.
Signing bad goalies.
No true stars (maybe Stutzle is one, but yet to be confirmed).
There are lots of reasons.