Disclaimer: This is just a quick reference guide of the players on the Sens for those not as familiar with them as the hardcore fans. Additionally, it can be a good resource in case we trade away some players at the trade deadline, so that the scouting reports fans of other teams ask for aren't colored by bad feelings or rose-colored glasses.
Disclaimer: As this is the first year under the new site, this scouting report may look different than usual as I experiment with and learn about the new forum features and deal with the loss of old forum features. You are welcome to suggest changes on what you like or dislike about the choices I made.
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The following is a general outline of the players on your 2016-2017 Ottawa Senators hockey team, or at least the ones that are starting the season on the roster.
Feel free to make comments, highlight errors, and help make this list as comprehensive a guide as possible. If you disagree with any of this, it's perfectly fine for you to give your own comments and opinions.
Each player is enclosed in a spoiler tag to make it easier to find the player you are looking for. Just click on the player you want to see to open up the tag to see the scouting report enclosed within.
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Strengths
- Great shot
- Great puck-handling skills
- Underrated playmaking abilties
- Inconsistent
- Has been accused of being indifferent in the defensive zone
- Average one-timer for such a good goal scorer
Strengths
- Top-tier wrist shot
- Good offensive vision
- Underrated defensive awareness and decision making
- Not overly physical, can be pushed off the puck too easily by the opposition
- Needs time and space to get off a good shot
- It remains to be seen how he adapts to the new faceoff rules, as he relies quite heavily late last season on winning faceoffs with his feet
Strengths
- Good vision in the offensive zone
- Good slapshot
- Uncanny ability to pass the puck through the defender to the open man
- Has a repuation of being a great post-season player
- Relatively average at the faceoff dot
- Not particularly good at puck battles down low
- Inconsistent point production throughout the regular season
Strengths
- Great hands, playmaking skills
- One of the best players in the league at stealing the puck
- Elite hockey sense
- Not particularly quick around the ice
- Hasn't been great in the post-season throughout his career
- May be starting to have a history of concussions
Strengths
- Very fast skater
- Great shot - in all facets, slap, wrist, one-timer
- Good puckhandling ability
- Not great at winning puck-battles
- Inconsistent effort
Strengths
- Decent defensively
- Can be a difference maker physically
- Decent mid-weight fighter
- Above average at faceoffs
- Not great offensively
- Ridiculously inconsistent (both in production and physical play)
- Takes a lot of dumb, stupid and lazy penalties
Strengths
- Quick
- Wins a surprising number of puck battles along the boards
- Effective in a shutdown role
- Has a knack for scoring against the Habs
- Not particularly big
- Inconsistent point producer
Strengths
- Quick
- Reliable defensively
- Wins a surprising amount of board battles
- Won't produce many points
- On the smallish side
Strengths
- Surprisingly physical
- Reliable defensively
- Reputation of raising his game in the post-season
- Above average faceoff abilities
- Injury-prone
- Not a great offensive producer
Strengths
- Very fast, gets a lot of breakways
- Ball of energy, always buzzing around the ice
- Has never had great point production, at any level of hockey
- Not a good finisher, doesn't bury many of the chances he creates
- On the smallish size for an NHL bottom six forward
Strengths
- Underrated finishing abilities
- Reliable defensively
- Good locker room guy
- Not a point producer at this point in his career
Strengths
- Big
- Soft hands
- Good offensive vision and playmaking abilties
- Underrated shot
- Inconsistent effort
- Does not take advantage of his size and engage physically
- Unsettled in the defensive zone
Strengths
- Very fast
- Postionally very sound
- Undersized, needs to put on more weight on beanpole frame
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Defensemen:
Strengths
- Elite ability to get point shot on net through shot blockers and create scoring chances
- Great passer, both with breakout passes from his own zone, and cross ice passes in the offensive zone
- Very good offensive instincts
- Great at using his stick defensively
- Extremely quick, both in acceleration and top end speed
- Sometimes too casual with the puck
- Sometimes too risky in his decision making
- Can get outmuscled in front of own net
- Struggles pivoting to the right, when going backwards
Strengths
- Good skater
- Good heavy shot
- Good offensive and defensive awareness
- Isn't particularly quick as getting his shot off, which leads to it getting blocked a lot
- Sometimes makes dumb passes in the defensive zone when under pressure
- Doesn't produce as many points as his offensive tools suggest he could
Strengths
- Hard Slapshot
- Physical presence in his own zone
- Teammates past and present have praised his leadership in the lockerroom
- Slow as a rock
- Sometimes takes stupid penalties by being overly physical
- Can sometimes be caught punishing the player standing in front of the net, instead of clearing the puck from the slot
Strengths
- Underrated shot
- Sound positionally
- Makes good decisions
- Remains to be seen if his skating has recovered from his ankle injury last season
- Not particularly physical
Strengths
- Good offensive defenseman at every level below the NHL
- Great point shot
- Makes good decisions with the puck on his stick in the offensive zone
- Undersized
- For an offensive defenseman, he hasn't produced many points at the NHl level
Strengths
- Great hard point shot
- Can get scrambly in the defensive zone
- Sometimes gets caught reaching with his stick and not moving his feet when defending the rush
Strengths
- A physical menace; hits anything that moves in an opposing sweater
- Hard worker
- Seems to bounce back from injury scares that would leave other players out for multiple games, in a shift or two
- No offensive instincts whatsoever
- Sucks with the puck on his stick
- Bad skater
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Goaltenders:
Strengths
- Has shown the ability to steal games.
- Able to make saves on pucks he has no business getting to
- Good with the puck on his stick, making breakout passes from behind the net <- Those he can sometimes make stupid decisions while handling the puck
- Can sometimes overcommit leaving himself open to pass
- Can be guilty of flopping in his crease at times after the first save
- Has shown a continued inability to stop wraparound attempts from going into the net
Strengths
- Sound fundamentals
- Has the ability to make big saves
- Can be a solid backup in that he can go without playing for long stretches of time and not look bad and rusty when put into the net
- Needs to work on his rebound control
- Has an tendency to give up the odd bad goal, espeically after making a ton of great saves
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