Low Effort GDT Senators @ Canucks - 10PM EST - TSN5/RDS - Battle of the basement.

[Adele Dazeem]

Could be, and should be, getting reps on the taxi squad. He was playing high end hockey in the Swiss league before camp so he's not totally rusty.

Our defense can't handle the puck. At all. He's worth a try like yesterday.

The competition should be between him and Wolanin, not between Wolanin and ancient Coburn.

This is an oxymoron, I hope you can see that.

 

[Dan Patrick]

My brain honestly can’t process what’s happening with this team. How are guys unable to make easy passes you see kids making in peewee hockey? Every pass is like a battle of the wills between the stick and the puck. Every decision on the ice seems to be backfiring or ending negatively. Wolanin goes to hold the line on a pretty standard play and next thing you know there’s a partial short handed break resulting in a goal the goalie should have saved.
Is this bad luck? Rust? Or is this just how a bad team loses? I honestly can’t understand how these guys can’t even execute really simple plays. Like, at all.

This is what happens when you have 60% turnover on your team and mix that with the other 40-100% not playing in 10 months. Most of these guys have never played together, there is ZERO chemistry and most of the guys don't even have their legs under them to fall back on. I am not sure what people expected, but it's hard to see a basically completely new team come in and succeed. This is basically what Vegas should have looked like if it wasn't for great coaching from Peter DeBoer.

 

[Tap on the Ankle]

Who can be brought in to replace Dorion and fix this organization?

The Cirque du Soleil guy, hopefully.

 

[Sweatred]

The kids can't make mistakes because, for the most part, they're not playing right now.

Combos of Stutzle, Brady, Wolanin, Norris Batherson on the ice for the last two goals ...

 

[L'Aveuglette]

The easiest part of the rebuild is selling off star talent for futures. The hardest part is actually building it up again and identifying NHL talent to add. So far every single acquisition Morion has made is a failure, and I have no confidence in him or our pro scouting that they will get us out of the basement.

Yeah honestly Dadonov, Stepan, Gudbranson, J. Brown and Galchy to a lesser extent have all come in and done nothing so far. We didn't need all of these scrubs. Not by a long shot.

 

[Speatleysson]

Anyone know when the draft lottery is held this year? I should probably clear my calendar.

I saw a rumour that there won't be a draft this year

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

Everyone sucks tonight except for Chris Tierney, Connor Brown, and Nick Paul. Even the top line looks like dog shit tonight, way too many cute passes.

 

[FormentonTheFuture]

I still don’t understand the trade. Demelo was solid, relatively young, and relatively cheap. Would’ve fit right in this year. but nah, draft picks are always more valuable

This year is irrelevant, no reason to have extended him with the talent coming in

 

[Adrianopolous]

Guy Boucher would have gotten a few wins out of this team. He strives on low talent squads...

 

[Imnotagoodposter]

Daniel Alfredsson.

“Probably not.”

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

DJ Smith coaching Jake Sanderson is something none of us should have to go through.

Hopefully DJ is gone by then.

 

[2CHAINZ]

Colin White and Logan Brown are the biggest dissapointments to me.. Hopefully the new kids don't go down that path. Chabot needs to find his rhythm soon. He's not a spring chicken anymore..

 

[Imnotagoodposter]

This year is irrelevant, no reason to have extended him with the talent coming in

Let’s trade a good defenseman because we have guys that MIGHT be good coming in? Right

 

[Philadelphia Collins]

Brannstrom and Logan Brown not being in the lineup when our 2nd powerplay is featuring Mike Reilly and Artem Anisimov is going to turn me into the Joker

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

I’m just here to watch our best player Nick PAUL.

 

[Micklebot]

This year is irrelevant, no reason to have extended him with the talent coming in

We don't have a lot of talent on RD, we have a couple maybes.

 

[tstracuzza]

This year is irrelevant, no reason to have extended him with the talent coming in

Talent... lol

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Colin White and Logan Brown are the biggest dissapointments to me.. Hopefully the new kids don't go down that path. Chabot needs to find his rhythm soon. He's not a spring chicken anymore..

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Does it even matter to Dorion how bad this team is? Melnyk won’t get rid of him. The Sens GM job is career suicide and nobody else with reputation is going to take it.

 

[Agent Zub]

My brain honestly can’t process what’s happening with this team. How are guys unable to make easy passes you see kids making in peewee hockey? Every pass is like a battle of the wills between the stick and the puck. Every decision on the ice seems to be backfiring or ending negatively. Wolanin goes to hold the line on a pretty standard play and next thing you know there’s a partial short handed break resulting in a goal the goalie should have saved.
Is this bad luck? Rust? Or is this just how a bad team loses? I honestly can’t understand how these guys can’t even execute really simple plays. Like, at all.

that's what happens when every player on the roster is asked to play ahead of their talent level. they are all put in a position to fail.

 

[RAFI BOMB]

It also looks like it is time to end the Anisimov and Stepan experiment. They are both too slow and at this point blocking better players from getting in the lineup. Waive Anisimov and trade Stepan for whatever they can get in return.

 

[senswon]

How low do we go before we see a change at
1. GM
2. Coach (welcome new HC Capuano..)

 

[Answer]

I didn’t like Stutzle’s play ... that’s the problem with so many kids in the lineup trying to figure it out.

It's his 3rd game, Let him figure it out. What are you expecting out of him? The team around him is hot garbage too

Wolanin's play was tough luck, he might get better as he plays on and gain confident. Murray should have that, it was an extremely weak goal!

 

[BondraTime]

This is an oxymoron, I hope you can see that.

Swiss league is probably the 5th or so best league in the world, I hope you can see that

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

Combos of Stutzle, Brady, Wolanin, Norris Batherson on the ice for the last two goals ...

The Brady, Norris, and Batherson line have been very bad tonight. Forcing passes, and if they're not forcing them, they're just making dumb blind passes to nobody.