Sensinitis
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So we played a flukey game vs the Stanley Cup chance we easily could have won is where we are at?
This is not a where are we at game... that was the last half dozen games. This was a game to maybe take a lot of individual lessons from. But it is completely atypical of how the Sens have played all season.
If this is a game to show where we are at it would indicate:
We have terrible goaltending. Untrue
We lack a system and are giving up a zillion big chances and shots all the time. Untrue
We have a high octane offence. Maybe but the most games don't show that.
We have an amazing PP. Well not normally.
Stone, Hoffman and Karlsson are superstars. Hopefully that is true.
This was just a crazy, crazy game. It doesn't mean a lot... some lessons.... but it doesn't show what kind of team we are.
One great thing about the game is we kept coming back. There are like hardly a single game this year that I didn't feel we could end up winning with 5 minutes left. Including this one. And I think the entire team feels that way too. We are in it to win it and at no point do we start to give up and just play out the remainder of the game. I really like that about this years team.
All those conclusions you drew yourself.
I don't know how you can disagree with me saying that playing the best team in the league is a good game to show us where we're at.
To me, it showed that the players (sub Anderson, today at least) play well under pressure, and against the best team they were able to have a 2 goal lead.
Today also proved how important special teams are. We performed on both.
This game didn't show "terrible goaltending". It showed what happens when you allow 46 ****ing shots.
The shots against have been creeping higher and higher since the first 10-15 games or so. I'm a bit worried about that.
The team needs a good #5 dman, and a good top 9 forward. Add those and we're looking like a top 3 team in the East, imo. I hope hope hope hope Dorion can see this. The team can't sit on its record, especially with all these injuries now.