Pre-Game Talk: SENS strike down Tampa, Thurs, 7:30 pm on TSN
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PeterSidorkiewicz
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We can be budget fans and just plan to spend money every other year, perfect!
Plus our fans per point ratio is still pretty good.
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PeterSidorkiewicz
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No idea, but some Rugby player just decided to amputate half his finger instead of having it heal so he could be ready for the season. Might be a good option for Bobby.
Micklebot
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Boucher said in the post game presser that it wasn't broken, but Ryan couldn't close his hand on the stick. Status is in question for next game but if he can't suit up Chlapik will come in.
Any true Sens fans knows that 100% we would not get the first overall pick if we finished dead last, how ever many spots you can be bumped back is where we would pick!
Well if you like doughty you're gonna love ceci. So if you like ceci. You're gonna love claessen.
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Funny how this always happens when he's been healthy for a few weeks and people start expecting production. Keep kicking that can down the road for a few more years, Bobby! No one has caught on yet!
Well I mean this was our general trend for a while. Adding a coach with that exact track record was not gonna help.
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There has got to be some disconnect between game planning or management or something. We're a team that plays tight defensively that seems to like to play for the Overtime games. Boucher in the past has thrown out guys like Pageau and Pyatt in heavy deployment in OT games. This leads the Sens to have a more than average proportion of their games go to shootout (10 last year).
Why then do we keep getting rid of all the good shootout players we have? Not to re-hash the entire trade all over again, but consider that just accounting for his ability in the shootout, trading Turris may have cost us 2 or 3 points directly in the standings. Especially when we're using guys like Pyatt. It's definitely not the most important thing to consider in a trade...but it is a part of the game and one that we seem to actively aim to participate in. Yet we've traded all our best shutout guys over the past 5 years except Bobby who we're married to (Spezza, Zibanejad, Silfverberg, Turris).
Haha in all honesty this is probably just finding something new to rag on about the team after a loss, but it is what it is.
Why then do we keep getting rid of all the good shootout players we have? Not to re-hash the entire trade all over again, but consider that just accounting for his ability in the shootout, trading Turris may have cost us 2 or 3 points directly in the standings. Especially when we're using guys like Pyatt. It's definitely not the most important thing to consider in a trade...but it is a part of the game and one that we seem to actively aim to participate in. Yet we've traded all our best shutout guys over the past 5 years except Bobby who we're married to (Spezza, Zibanejad, Silfverberg, Turris).
Haha in all honesty this is probably just finding something new to rag on about the team after a loss, but it is what it is.
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The team played well against the best team in the NHL, despite the 3 blown leads.
Everything is riding on the next 4 games, imo. You go 3-0-1, or win all 4, and you probably leap frog the Panthers and the Habs. Also, 2 of those games are against the Bruins.
If we lose 2 or 3 of those games in regulation, then the team would have to pull off a miraculous run. As it stands, we already need a winning percentage similar to that of Vegas' or Tampa's to make the playoffs. Kind of doable. But that would increase depending on what the end of December holds...
Everything is riding on the next 4 games, imo. You go 3-0-1, or win all 4, and you probably leap frog the Panthers and the Habs. Also, 2 of those games are against the Bruins.
If we lose 2 or 3 of those games in regulation, then the team would have to pull off a miraculous run. As it stands, we already need a winning percentage similar to that of Vegas' or Tampa's to make the playoffs. Kind of doable. But that would increase depending on what the end of December holds...
Duchene is supposed to be just as good in the shootouts as Turris was. He's at a 36% success rate over his career, made a nice move last night but couldn't quite get it up. Turris is at 36.5% for his career.
In fairness to Pyatt, he has scored for us twice in the shootout before.
I know earlier in the year Boucher talked about how our healthy shootout lineup was Ryan, Turris and Karlsson. I assume Duchene replaces Turris, and since Ryan was hurt and Pyatt scored his last time in the shootout, he got another chance.
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that's what she said
FolignoQuantumLeap
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The team played well in the first. After that it was complete domination by Tampa. The shot attempts were 77 to 28. We were fortunate to get a single point.
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I still can't figure out how we can play well one period and be a complete dumpster fire the rest of a game. It can't all be fatigue from overplaying Karlsson and some other guys, and it can't always be the other team just flipping a switch because it just seems to happen too often.
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Looking back, great 1st against Tbay last night, dominated the Pens in the 1st when returning from Sweden, good for half a game against the Wild, good against the rangers till we went into protect mode in the 3rd, I'm sure there have been more examples, we just seem like a jekyll and hyde team.
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Perhaps it's the opposition's ability to adjust to Bouchers system after a period. Doesn't seem like the Sens (in particular Boucher) have an answer for the counter.
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I am thinking that we lose those two bruins games coming up we are done. I am always optimistic on this board but if we don't win, I'm thinking that is it for our chances at controlling our own destiny, too much of a thing for us to win 3 of 4 games going forward and rely on everyone else to lose...
But they have proved up wrong before.
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That was also a feature of Sens teams in years past. Unsustainable play.
Is it the other guys figuring out the system early? Is it a mental thing where we can't stay focused?
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I think it is indicative of a lack of leadership on the bench honestly.
The players seem to go off course very easily.
FolignoQuantumLeap
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Its also largely because the system is designed to be passive and allows the opposition to dictate the pace. We play the second most time in our own end of all NHL teams. Couple that with rhe overall lack of depth that Boicher trusts and the team is worn down by the 3rd. It might get worse as the season goes on because those guys we lean so heavily on will get more and more run down.
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It's mostly because once we get a lead, or are tied halfway through the game, we go into protective mode, which doesn't work anymore since we're not good enough to protect a lead through half a game(hell, no team really is).
