Post-Game Talk: Game #13 vs CGY - Vote for the 3 stars

[Xspyrit]

VOTE FOR 3 PLAYERS


Note : we focus only on Sens players here, the goal is to see who plays consistently well for Ottawa

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[Stylizer1]

redundant

 

[GCK]

How anyone who watched the game selected Drake Batherson is beyond me. He was terrible again

 

[Back in Black]

Joseph, Giroux & Batherson

4th would go to Korpi

 

[2CHAINZ]

Joseph, Giroux & Batherson

4th would go to Korpi

I don't understand how Korpi isn't #1. If he doesn't stand on his head at the start, we are down by 2 or 3 goals and fall apart. Fans start booing, and fire DJ chants start.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Jo Stu Giroux carried the mail up front. I am going with them.

 

[Big Muddy]

Joseph, Giroux & Batherson

4th would go to Korpi

Those 4 look good to me.

 

[GCK]

Those 4 look good to me.

Really, Batherson ? He was a disaster.

 

[5ive4Fighting]

How anyone who watched the game selected Drake Batherson is beyond me. He was terrible again

https://x.com/senators/status/1723706965862310250?s=61&t=cdPQb7_ZH6OSjQm_broREg

 

[GCK]

https://x.com/senators/status/1723706965862310250?s=61&t=cdPQb7_ZH6OSjQm_broREg

He was awful

 

[BoardsofCanada]

I went:

1) Korpisalo
2) Matty Jo
3) Chart

 

[Big Muddy]

Really, Batherson ? He was a disaster.

I guess defensively Batherson wasn't good. I just took a quick look at this thread and made the post. I'm not spending much time here lately with other things on the go.

 

[thinkwild]

I had a tough time picking a 3rd star. Korpi played great and we needed a great goalie performance. M.Jo continued looking strong. After that, it was a tough choice. Most played a little good a little bad

 

[LiseL]

How anyone who watched the game selected Drake Batherson is beyond me. He was terrible again

He did get a goal and worked hard to get the puck to Kubalik to setup Chartier's goal so not his worst game.

I don't understand how Korpi isn't #1. If he doesn't stand on his head at the start, we are down by 2 or 3 goals and fall apart. Fans start booing, and fire DJ chants start.

Exactly. Ottawa plays terrible when they fall behind.

 

[Xspyrit]

He was awful

Hyperbole much?

If every game we had a few forwards that awful, we'd never lose... Scored a goal and created a goal by turning the puck over behind the net

2 shots, 2nd highest ixG on the team, no goals against on-ice, I don't remember extremely bad plays. He probably didn't have a perfect game like it's the case for every player 99% of the time

 

[GCK]

Hyperbole much?

If every game we had a few forwards that awful, we'd never lose... Scored a goal and created a goal by turning the puck over behind the net

2 shots, 2nd highest ixG on the team, no goals against on-ice, I don't remember extremely bad plays. He probably didn't have a perfect game like it's the case for every player 99% of the time

I don’t care about his points, he is a disaster on the back check, just stands beside the opposition in the slot area, tries at least a couple blind bankhand passes each game, he literally has no clue what he’s doing without the puck I don’t know what’s happened to him but he plays losing hockey.

 

[Xspyrit]

I don’t care about his points, he is a disaster on the back check, just stands beside the opposition in the slot area, tries at least a couple blind bankhand passes each game, he literally has no clue what he’s doing without the puck I don’t know what’s happened to him but he plays losing hockey.

None of the guys who have been here under DJ are playing anywhere close to good defensive hockey (think about Chabot, Tkachuk, Stutzle, Norris...) . Guys who play better defensively have been groomed elsewhere (Giroux, Joseph, Greig, even Tarasenko lol)

So it will be fine IF/WHEN we get a proper coaching capable staff of instilling 2-way hockey

Batherson also need Norris to get back to form and a winger like Joseph on LW would do wonders for them

Tkachuk - Stutzle - Giroux
Joseph - Norris - Batherson
Greig - Pinto - Tarasenko

Just before Pinto is ready to come back, Trade Kubalik for a reliable depth D-man and a pick

 

[GCK]

None of the guys who have been here under DJ are playing anywhere close to good defensive hockey (think about Chabot, Tkachuk, Stutzle, Norris...) . Guys who play better defensively have been groomed elsewhere (Giroux, Joseph, Greig, even Tarasenko lol)

So it will be fine IF/WHEN we get a proper coaching capable staff of instilling 2-way hockey

Batherson also need Norris to get back to form and a winger like Joseph on LW would do wonders for them

Tkachuk - Stutzle - Giroux
Joseph - Norris - Batherson
Greig - Pinto - Tarasenko

Just before Pinto is ready to come back, Trade Kubalik for a reliable depth D-man and a pick

The worst offenders for bad defensive hockey are Batherson, Tkachuk and Stutzle.

Stutzle, he’s not terrible defensively at all, his issues are mostly bad turnovers.

Tkachuk is sometimes decent in zone but not usually, one thing he does well is take the proper assignment on the back check.

Batherson is bad in zone, doesn’t engage and almost never makes the proper read even when he works hard on the back check. Batherson makes his linemates look bad defensively. He’s broken.

 

[Xspyrit]

The worst offenders for bad defensive hockey are Batherson, Tkachuk and Stutzle.

Stutzle, he’s not terrible defensively at all, his issues are mostly bad turnovers.

Tkachuk is sometimes decent in zone but not usually, one thing he does well is take the proper assignment on the back check.

Batherson is bad in zone, doesn’t engage and almost never makes the proper read even when he works hard on the back check. Batherson makes his linemates look bad defensively. He’s broken.

No, and you'll see why eventually. Keep in mind we have been stuck with Dorion for 8 years and DJ Smith for 5 years...

Batherson will never be a Mark Stone but he could be adequate in the right system with the right linemates. Again, he has never played in an efficient system at the NHL level.