Management Travis Green [Head Coach]

[Micklebot]

Bottom six definitely needs to start chipping in.

A little more luck at the front and little better goaltending and we can rattle off a large amount of wins

Pinto is really struggling, between him and Sanderson that's a lot of scoring we expected gone.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Pinto is really struggling, between him and Sanderson that's a lot of scoring we expected gone.

I would like to know what the bottom 6 xG is.

The power kill??

 

[PlayOn]

Agree mostly with what you are saying. But, it would be nice to find a high end skill forward that could play & think the game at the same level as Stutzle. That might have to come via the draft I suppose given that the Senators are small market Canadian team.

I also think we need another high end defenseman. Zub has already been injured a lot and I’d wonder if that will continue. I guess that could eventually be Yakemchuk (1 year, 2 years, x years).

The other thing is it would be really refreshing to hear Senator fans & team talk about much higher goals than just barely squeaking in to the playoffs. It seems like the high end of our ambitions and goals is to be a mediocre team (around .500). I understand why it boils down to this given history, but’s its rather sad to have such low expectations. We spend so much time scraping the advanced stats to find a glimmer of hope, but in the meantime our win/loss record leaves a lot to be desired.

Yeah I absolutely agree with all of this. For us to be a true contender Yakemchuk has to hit and we need to find Stützle a winger.

Expectations will rise as their performance does. At this point we haven’t seen the playoffs for seven years, I think just getting in is satisfactory. But I don’t think that means every year thereafter there will be comfort with just clawing our way in. Gotta start somewhere though.