Most of the teams don't have superstar forwards. Jackets have 0 superstars, Rangers and Habs have only goalies. Arena? People actually tune in to see arena on TV? Lol.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Teams usually don't have several "Superstars"
Anaheim Ducks : Getzlaf, Perry? (decline)
Arizona Coyotes : OEL
Boston Bruins : Bergeron, Rask, Chara? (decline)
Buffalo Sabres : Eichel (young)
Calgary Flames : Gaudreau, Giordano?
Carolina Hurricanes : Skinner? Faulk?
Chicago Blackhawks : Kane, Panarin, Keith, Toews
Colorado Avalanche : MacKinnon, Duchene? Varlamov?
Columbus Blue Jackets : Bobrovsky?, Saad? Atkinson?
Dallas Stars : Benn, Seguin
Detroit Red Wings : Zetterberg? (decline)
Edmonton Oilers : McDavid, Draisaitl (both young)
Florida Panthers : Barkov, Ekblad (both young and a bit unproven), Luongo (decline), Jagr (decline)
Los Angeles Kings : Doughty, Kopitar, Carter? Quick?
Minnesota Wild : Suter, Dubnyk? Parise (decline)
Montreal Canadiens : Price, Weber, Pacioretty?
Nashville Predators : Subban, Forsberg? Josi?
New Jersey Devils : Hall, Schneider?
New York Islanders : Tavares
New York Rangers : Lundqvist, McDonagh? Nash? (decline)
Philadelphia Flyers : Giroux, Voracek, Simmonds?
Pittsburgh Penguins : Crosby, Malkin, Letang, Kessel
Ottawa Senators : Karlsson, Stone? Hoffman?
San Jose Sharks : Burns, Pavelski, Thornton (decline), Couture? Vlasic?
St Louis Blues : Tarasenko, Pietrangelo
Tampa Bay Lightning : Stamkos, Hedman, Kucherov?
Toronto Maple Leafs : Matthews, Marner (both young and a bit unproven)
Vancouver Canucks : Sedin, Sedin (decline)
Washington Capitals : Ovechkin, Backstrom, Holtby
Winnipeg Jets : Wheeler? Byfuglien? Laine? Scheifele? Ehlers? (last 3 are very young)
Am I missing someone? Outside of a few teams like the Pens, Caps, Hawks and Sharks, most teams have 1 superstar and a few stars.
I don't see the argument that the Sens don't have enough stars. Ottawa is just a small market stuck between Toronto, Montreal and New York. A lot of rivals nearby that hate the Sens just because.
The only reason why sens are overlooked (and rightly so) is because they couldn't sustain high level of play for a good period of time. Give it time.
Sens have made the playoffs 15 times in the last 19 seasons (since 1996-97, which is the 1st time they have made the playoffs). They were a solid contender for maybe half of those years. Sens are 6th in P% during that period of time, and 3rd in GF/GP while being 8th in GA/GP and they scored 234 more goals at ES than they gave up (+ 234)
They had a few down years recently (but not as close as bad as Toronto/Buffalo/Edmonton/etc) but overall this team has been better than average the last 2 decades and was even elite for a while. It's heavily unrealistic to expect a team to remain a contender all the time, particularly a small market like Ottawa. Even super rich teams like Montreal, Toronto and New York can't do it.
Doesn't look like he took an overly long time to get up, though. And I'm not sure how you know he coasted, the camera's not on him. In fact, if he had been in frame, it would mean he was way out of position. Sens players already outnumbered them 3/4 to 2 around the puck. We don't want 5 guys swarming the puck, that's novice hockey.
That was a nothing play, just an awful rebound by Condon... There was no reason to give the puck back to a Flames player... If a goal was scored every time somebody lost the puck in the OZ or NZ, games would end in a football score