GDT: Sens Vs Sabres, 7:00 TV: TSN5 Radio: TSN 1200 AM

[bicboi64]

Pathetic effort by the whole roster.

On a side note, why were we wearing the white jerseys at home?

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

Dean Evason is not an elite coach! The man has never won anything He lost in the 1st round 3 season in a row and then the Wild fired him last season after starting the season 5-10-4. Yeah is an elite coach alright!


come on the man has an 8-15 record in the playoffs and while with Minnesota he never got past the 1st round!!! What the hell are you talking about getting the most out of his players???

Minnesota just tuned him out. His style is like that, at some point the players are going to tire of him. The coach they've replaced him with has never made it out of the first round either in 8-9 years of NHL coaching.

The fact that they've rebounded so well this quickly is a testament to how good a coach Dean Evason is. Their team play and structure is excellent, they didn't just learn how to do it this fast under Hynes.

This Minnesota team has no right being this competitive, they've been handcuffed for years by $15M in dead cap with the Suter and Parise contracts. Imagine having a record of 134-63-23 while essentially having a team spending to the cap floor. The guy didn't even inherit any high end cheap ELC talent to help offset that penalty.

The moment Evason became available, I desperately wanted him as our coach. It's become a meme here in HF Ottawa, but we missed the boat.

 

[boxbox]

Team scoring has completely dried up. That isn't on the goalies.

We have multiple problems at the moment and that is why things seem so desperate.

Scoring 5 on 5 has been an issue since November. With the specialty teams laying an egg, we have nothing to hang our hat on.

All fair points, however

- Sens power-play is ranked 8th overall/ ranks 6th overall in power-play goals scored ...shows the teams isn't impotent when it comes to scoring....when a team is on a power-play playing defence /goaltending take a back seat
- despite getting subpar goal-tending for many games the Sens GA is ranked 10th lowest overall, however the penalty-kill is ranked 24th (worst) overall (goalies are often the teams best PKillers)
- despite having a power-play in the top10 the Sens GF ranks 23rd lowest overall...makes you wonder if the reason behind it has something to do with the team not playing loose / with any confidence since they cant trust the goalie

 

[Tuna99]

problem for Green is the team is playing kinda well outside of not scoring, but he can’t DJ Smith this thing for the rest of the season and play the moral victories - one more bounce, one more whistle and just a bit healthier card all season because Sens fans won’t digest that they will vomit that up.

 

[Senovision]

We have almost no scoring from dmen 9 goals all year is at the bottom of league in team dmen scoring .

Below usual goal scoring by players this year.
These 3 are snake bitten.

Stutzle 12 goals ( 2 goals last 17 games)
Pinto 6 goals
Perron 0 goals only 9 games played**

 

[Tuna99]

Mark Stone solves a lot of problems for this team right now.