Are the Ottawa Senators not as bad as people expected them to be?

[Sensin5]

Wow. What a nice thing to say.

What if Sens fans start hoping Tavares and Matthews crash into each other and both blow an ACL?

Just remember karma is a .....

Don't worry about poster - that kind of bitterness happens when you miss playoffs for many years in a row and when you get in you never even win one round.

 

[swiftwin]

Yea that’s the argument after every Leafs loss against the Sens. All they want to bring up is the advanced stats like it changes the outcome somehow.

The Leafs can have their "moral" victories. We'll take the 2 points.

 

[Critical13]

I hope they shit all over Colorado’s pick

 

[HabsQC]

Remember when the Habs started 10-0 and didn't make the playoffs ?

 

[devbouz12]

Remember when the Habs started 10-0 and didn't make the playoffs ?

Hahahahaha classic habs

 

[kingsfan28]

Not sure. All I know is they beat a team who was thinking about the cool day off they had playing football, instead of playing hockey.

 

[Legionnaire]

Not sure. All I know is they beat a team who was thinking about the cool day off they had playing football, instead of playing hockey.

Oh come on. Don't minimize the loss. The Sens outplayed the Kings plain and simple.

 

[BodaciousBeefBazooka]

They are proving themselves by demonstrating 'we can do this without our best player" they wont keep it up.

 

[DamonDRW]

... historically elite Leafs team and a Kings team ...

This is definitely the best part! HISTORICALLY ELITE!

 

[Warden of the North]

The Brian Burke 18 Wheeler will be along at some point this season to plummet them to the bottom

 

[bobholly39]

Vegas did it last year - anyone can

I know how annoying it is becoming to hear that - but it's true. Even "bad" teams can achieve results if they play very strong. So although it's likely they regress and have a shit year - it's definitely not unfathomable that they manage to compete all year either.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Remember when the Habs started 10-0 and didn't make the playoffs ?

Lol yeah. Habs can choke like no one else. Good times.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Dont wanna make that the first overall you coughed up eh?

Is that your "moral victory"?

The second or third overall is bad too

But less bad !

 

[NyQuil]

Lol yeah. Habs can choke like no one else. Good times.

The same thing almost happened to us in 2007-2008.

We had the best record in the East at the all-star break and barely made the playoffs.

 

[joe dirte]

If it was “whatever” you wouldn’t be in here all the time.

At least you’ve given me something to smile about this season so thank you.

Uh... it's one loss. They're still an elite team.

 

[NyQuil]

Uh... it's one loss. They're still an elite team.

I never said they weren’t.

 

[tucker3434]

They’re 2-2-1 and currently on pace for 82 points. That’d probably put them right on the edge of a bottom ten team. With a win tonight, they’d be on pace for about 96 points and the playoff bubble. With a regulation loss, 68 points and in the bottom 3.

I still expect them to struggle to break 80. Anyone expecting them to just lay down and die right out of the gate doesn’t really have a firm grip on the cap-era NHL.

 

[NyQuil]

They’re 2-2-1 and currently on pace for 82 points. That’d probably put them right on the edge of a bottom ten team. With a win tonight, they’d be on pace for about 96 points and the playoff bubble. With a regulation loss, 68 points and in the bottom 3.

I still expect them to struggle to break 80. Anyone expecting them to just lay down and die right out of the gate doesn’t really have a firm grip on the cap-era NHL.

Relying on youth is a strategy that typically works better at the beginning of seasons before the veterans who have been pacing themselves get up to speed and the grind kicks in.

If Ottawa wants to pile up points they'll have to do it before Christmas.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Uh... it's one loss. They're still an elite team.

Lol jeez some of you Leafs fans are sensitive.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

They’re 2-2-1 and currently on pace for 82 points. That’d probably put them right on the edge of a bottom ten team. With a win tonight, they’d be on pace for about 96 points and the playoff bubble. With a regulation loss, 68 points and in the bottom 3.

I still expect them to struggle to break 80. Anyone expecting them to just lay down and die right out of the gate doesn’t really have a firm grip on the cap-era NHL.

So basically you're saying this is a huge game tonight? Now im nervous.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Six assets over-performing right now. That will level off. I expect much mediocrity punctuated by upsetting the leafs due to luck only.

 

[swiftwin]

This is definitely the best part! HISTORICALLY ELITE!

Generational 5 game sample!

 

[Fandlauer]

A bunch of young guys playing on pure adrenaline combined with zero pressure or expectations. I fully expect them to fade and finish in the bottom 10, that being said, it does look like they have enough going for them not to be a lock for dead last like many were predicting, myself included.

 

[EveryDay]

Shot Attempts were 80-40 Leafs. It was all Anderson...well both Andy's, one good, one in October form.
Fair and square yes. Beat down-far from it.

The Steve Dangle triumverate of young, fast, work, is paying off for the Sens and Habs

What was the number of shot attemps in that MTL-TOR game?

 

[Spilot23]

A bunch of young guys playing on pure adrenaline combined with zero pressure or expectations. I fully expect them to fade and finish in the bottom 10, that being said, it does look like they have enough going for them not to be a lock for dead last like many were predicting, myself included.

That's probably the same thing with the Avs last season kids like Kerfoot, Girard, Jost probably didn't have alot of pressure. I imagine Landeskog in the first game of the season speech: "Well guys I guess we can't do worse than last season, let's do this." As an Avs fan that get somehow excited about that pick I never believed that Sens would finish dead last yes that could still happen but anything can happen in the league that it is getting harder to predict rankings. Of course Sens being a bottom feeder team this year would the cherry on the cake but we're already over the moon with Girard. For me it's better to lower your expectations to not end up sad or bitter