Post-Game Talk: St.Louis @ Senators - 7:30 p.m. - "Remember Hull" Edition

[Pierre from Orleans]

Solid loss

Hainsy and Boro are atrocious.
Would like to move Abramov up to the top line

 

[swiftwin]

I feel like this is what I expected this season, lose but be competitive.

Ideal scenario. Last thing you want as a young team is to be constantly caved in. Brannstrom and Abramov got some good minutes in tonight.

 

[Another Mr Lizard]

Just happy to see my team on the same ice as the Stanley Cup Champions. What a lovely day!

 

[Do Make Say Think]

That was the end of a long shift which he was just PKing

So you just let the guy with the puck do whatever he wants?

I'm gonna go with "no" here.

 

[tardigrade81]

This has been a great game

Probably has been. I would be watching if i wasn’t watching baseball. But starting 0-3 is still shit regardless of entertaining games.

 

[Micklebot]

Pageau used to be one of my favourite Senators, but he has been completely invisible for a while. If I had to choose between he and Tierney at this point, it would be an easy choice for me.

Tierney is younger, RFA and better offensively. I like Pageau, and am no fan of Tierney, but at this stage, Tierney is the guy to keep.

 

[L'Aveuglette]

Pageau used to be one of my favourite Senators, but he has been completely invisible for a while. If I had to choose between he and Tierney at this point, it would be an easy choice for me.

As a pretty vocal Pageau backer, I'm sad to say I agree. He's lost a lot of the "spunkiness" that made him a good player. Hopefully he can get better as the season progresses, but right now he's very disappointing. He should be much more visible out there with the roster we have.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

But starting 0-3 is still **** regardless of entertaining games.

Actually, that's perfect.

 

[TheDebater]

This is what nhl hockey has become. They want these high scoring games when there was nothing wrong with low scoring tense games

This game felt tense to me, what is the difference to you between 1-1 and 4-4? A tie is a tie.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Good times everyone

Peace

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Connor Brown TML leading the way up front with just shy of 20 minutes.

 

[OUTHOUSE]

When is the last time we did not have a PP in a game?

 

[Matsens15]

Actually, that's perfect.

Yup! Perfect!!!

 

[DylanSensFan]

I would have liked to win this game. So I could throw it in some Toronto fan friends faces that Ottawa beat the Stanley Cup Champs. Alas...

 

[Slack]

I'm satisfied with tonight's game, it was a valiant effort. The last 2 I went away feeling a sense of disgust

 

[JungleBeat]

All he has to do is not let the center skate straight up the ice and there's no goal there. He basically moved out of the way and gave Bozak the path. That's on Tierney.

I disagree. Why are the wingers just watching a puck lay there. Jump in a get the puck ffs.

 

[FormentonTheFuture]

This game felt tense to me, what is the difference to you between 1-1 and 4-4? A tie is a tie.

When a game is like 7-6 let’s just say, there’s barely any tension, it’s just scrimmage hockey . Just my opinion. I like low scoring tight playoff type games

 

[Another Mr Lizard]

I think we might be slightly less fragile than the LRT.

 

[tardigrade81]

Actually, that's perfect.

Happy for the tank. Would be nice to win one game at some point lol. Guess was silly of me to think we could do it against the champs. Oh well glad it was an entertaining game.

 

[FormentonTheFuture]

I disagree. Why are the wingers just watching a puck lay there. Jump in a get the puck ffs.

Yeah thats absolutely not on tierney. He did his job there.

 

[Matsens15]

This is Beautiful.

 

[Icelevel]

Been a while since pageau had a game as good as tierney did tonight. Guess that settles it, trade pageau to pittsburgh

 

[L'Aveuglette]

This is Beautiful.

They won't be winning any beauty contests, that much is true.

 

[TheDebater]

Brannstrom is showing signs that he will be a top 3 defenseman in the future. I would say top 2 but it is still early to tell however I was very impressed with his demeanor on the ice and his ability to take that extra second before making a pass. That to me is a talent only elite players have, as they do not simply panic and rim it around the boards or blast a 100 mph pass to the nearest teammate like Ceci and Borowiecki do.

Brannstrom seems to have good hockey sense and as he gets older, he will definitely start putting up the points and being a little more confident and controlling when he is on the ice; patience will be key with him. In fact, he needs a mentor, similar to how Karlsson had Kuba and then Methot who allowed him to take little risks while they covered for him. Right now, only DeMelo fits that description but he is fairly young himself so a bit unfair to anchor him with a rookie.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

This is Beautiful.

Almost as good as these guys

Add a Fedorov and a Larionov and a Konstantinov .. and we are right back in business... Its sad that we are so far away from anything hinting at resembling a contender.