So the comments on here are "its only October" what difference does that make? The Senators are playing well and confusing teams as well as using 7 defensemen. I can't see the comments about them finishing in the bottom 5 being true.
#Senswatch Part III: A Night at the Opera
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During the Avs horrible season 2 years ago they started the season like 9-11-1. So who knows how the whole season will go.
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Senators started out 8-3-5 last year.
Went 20-40-6 rest of the year.
We can hope that happens again. But again who knows
with their roster it looks like a regression should happen though.
Find someone with the flu. Sneak them into the Sens dressing room Thursday night and breath on everything.We can hope that happens again. But again who knows
Highest shooting percentage in the league is very likely not sustainable for the roster the Senators have.
The thought is this year is different.
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LaJoie
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DeMelo
The talent on defense will most likely be a surprise to the Avs.
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What worries me is that they're playing gutsy, uptempo hockey, and not folding when playing from behind. If they're really pulling together in the locker room, that's not really the kind of thing that goes away after a hot start. Anderson is the only thing that can hold them back now, and he's still been kind of weak but not as helpless as last season.
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Exactly. Bad numbers + high PDO over the course of a full season always comes back around to get you. Every team it happens to says "this time it's different"; every team is wrong.
They seriously do remind me of the '09-10 Avs. Sort of a ragtag roster with some youth and speed, and Craig friggin' Anderson in net (and Matt Duchene up front). That Avs team rocketed out the gate in the first half and then stumbled horribly, but still managed to eke their way into the postseason. So the Avs didn't sustain it either but they did so long enough. They picked 17th in the 2010 draft that year. Not making a prediction, but crazier things have happened. My gut feeling is that they'll peter out a bit at the end and miss the playoffs, but there won't be some huge, epic collapse like what we witnessed last season.
The problem is they are clearly not the worst team in the NHL either. Detroit, LA, Arizona, NYR, NYI even are all gonna be pretty bad. It really is too early to tell, at any point any team could lose a star player and that hurts this early into the season, losing streaks and winning streaks happen, trades happen. I'm fairly sure the sens will be a bottom 8-10 team, we've been screwed in the draft and other teams have done some pretty crazy jumps in the draft before, interesting to watch it all play out but we might need to teeter our expectations a tiny bit. On the bright side the Sens do seem to be clicking and despite thinking they'll be pretty bad this year they could be pretty competitive in a few years and Sens fans deserve better than what they've gotten from ownership.
I dont even know if this is being serious. Chabot is the only one with talent in that group. Demelo is a bottom pairing Defender and Lajoie has a career high of what, 30 points in Junior and 15 in the AHL?
It's the play of that defense that is a near perfect example of why regression seems inevitable.
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I think dorion should give those guys multi-year contract extensions right now based on those first 7 games.
Well see how they handle adversity. When they have several losses in a row, whill bounce back or collapse? We’ve seen Avs teams do both. I could see it going either way, but it does seem like a team that, if they start to lose their grip on the season, it could get ugly in a hurry.
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Well I was gonna answer but everyone else seems to have stole my thunder and nailed it on the head. I think the better question is why do you think they won't regress? We see it year in and year out that the start of the season is not a good gauge of what teams will look like come the end of the season. It's just my opinion and I'm by no means an expert
There's also plenty of teams who got horribly outplayed and outshot and manage to keep it going for large parts of the season, we did it in 09/10, Sens did it two seasons ago even going as far as the ECC game #7, Penguins won the Cup that year being "out-possessed" on quite a few occasions, Flames made the playoffs in '15 despite being terrible in that area, we were bottom 5 last season etc. Just because they are punching above their weight doesn't mean they will stop doing that suddenly, they thrive on quick strike offense and generate quite a bit of scoring chances despite not putting a lot of shots on the net.
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Luckily Mikko's got a 123 assists coming up and MacKinnon is on pace for 82 goals, so we're winning the Stanley Cup.They're on pace for 105 points
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The way I look at it for the Sens is simple. It's a nice start for a team that was told they were going to be terrible.
I don't foresee them continuing on this pace for a couple reasons. First they've played a heavy home schedule. 5 games at home compared to 2 on the road. Second the underlying numbers on them so far, are not great. Stats would say that a couple of their wins they were fortunate to win. Third they have few guys that I'd say are overachieving at the moment. Namely Tierney, Demelo, Boedker, and Chabot ( I think he'll be a very good player, but he isn't a pts/game+ dman).
At the end of the day they aren't as bad as people were making them out to be. And honestly I never bought into the whole they are the worst in the league crap. But I still think over 82 games they miss the playoffs by at least 15pts. Too many good teams.
I don't foresee them continuing on this pace for a couple reasons. First they've played a heavy home schedule. 5 games at home compared to 2 on the road. Second the underlying numbers on them so far, are not great. Stats would say that a couple of their wins they were fortunate to win. Third they have few guys that I'd say are overachieving at the moment. Namely Tierney, Demelo, Boedker, and Chabot ( I think he'll be a very good player, but he isn't a pts/game+ dman).
At the end of the day they aren't as bad as people were making them out to be. And honestly I never bought into the whole they are the worst in the league crap. But I still think over 82 games they miss the playoffs by at least 15pts. Too many good teams.
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