Game notes from last night :
Yeah, probably worst game by Phaneuf this year. One the first goal, it was not necessarily because of a lack of speed, but just because he was completely out of position and didn't anticipate the play so he got caught up ahead of Saad and he knew it right away, that he didn't have the speed and step to catch him. And the rest of the game, outside of a few nice plays, he put Ceci and other teammates in bad situations. Off-game.
Then Ceci makes up for the save by letting someone go right through him and Fanoof lol.
From my POV, he actually might have saved another goal there as he lifted the Jackets' player stick which resulted in a much weaker shot that it could have been.
Last man back, he held the puck until a safe play developed. He knew exactly what to do.
Exactly what I saw. Actually, I prefer the player to hold the puck if there is no lane. I hate when it goes into shin pads and it goes the other way (Karlsson had that problem before but it seems that he fixed it)
And seriously, I keep talking with or listening to coaches, ex-players, etc and we seriously are not qualified to understand exactly what is going on the ice. The NHL systems and structures in the NHL are not really that simple. Positioning and puck support availability are the biggest factors. The more I listen, the more I understand, the more I see that the criticism in general is not really accurate (not targeting the post you quoted, just a general comment). For my part, 25 years of following the NHL the hardcore way and playing myself at all kinds of levels, and I know it's still not enough to truly understand the NHL. We don't understand how fast it goes and all the things players have to consider in their decision making process (which are very very short delay lol). Frankly, all we can do is having educated guesses!
Ceci has defense only on the brain ,you can see he is trying to make the safe play even on offense.He is only going to get better, this is very much a development year for him.Kid has the tools ,and dispite what many think here he does have the brain
I'm getting more and more impressed by him. I thought he was one of the best Sens player last night. Looks like I am not the only one. Coaching staff played him over 27 mins... But what do they know? Amirite?
I hope he never sees another game unless Boro is out. Our team is so much better without him.
Yeah his 3 minutes are really making a world of difference!
Note : I have Neil as my 14th or 15th forward right now...
But I thought it wasn't part of the system, why is methot ever doing it?
Why does Boro do it far, far more this year than ever before? Why doesn't the coach bench him for being so foolish?
Because the coach is clueless! Haven't you read HF before Micklebot?
Even on the other penalty he drew, he embellished it. Can't believe the refs fell for it twice
Not over. Bad goal to give up.
Yeah not a pretty one to give up by Andy but he was very solid otherwise. He was partially screened by Karlsson too
I thought Wingels was solid except for the penalty late in the game.
Yes he was. Wingels is more efficient now that he doesn't have to play with Kelly, Neil and Lazar. Well, even Kelly look a bit better now that the depth has been fixed.
I still hope that Kelly is the one who sits when Ryan is back.
These GDTs are terrible. It's the same 3-4 posters *****ing about the exact same players in every single GDT.
We got the message last month, the month before that, last year too.
Yeah, nothing changed. They identify their goats for the season and harp on them all year, even when it becomes ridiculous and totally biased, trying to influence everybody else to have the same (crappy uneducated) opinion by being louder and more repetitive than others...
I didn't think Columbus played great tonight to be honest. They gave us more chances than we deserved with some turnovers in the d zone and some bad rebounds by their goalie.
What if those turnovers were created by speed and hard forechecking? Sens were all over the pace and were trying to outwork their opponents (game plan) by not giving them space at all. Of course, Jackets are a hard working very good team too. Result : that game was pretty tight with the Sens having a bit more scoring chances (data says the same)
I guess that's why Montreal radio call the Sens "les ronflants". Lajoie even joked to Burrows the other day saying that everyday will be boring now (referring to the Sens rink)
