New Blog up at Crash the Crease - End of year Sens Report Card

wprager wrote:Too many As there. You'd think we won the Division and came within a hair of the conference finals. Take a look at Brennan and Garrioch's score card. Hate them all you want, but their assessment is a lot closer to reality:

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2010/04/28/13746506-qmi.html

Matt Cullen: B
Milan Michalek:B-
Shean Donovan: C
Daniel Alfredsson: A+ (meh, I've seen him do more)
Mike Fisher: A (too high IMO)
Jesse Winchester: C
Jason Spezza: B-
Chris Kelly: B+
Chris Neil: B+
Ryan Shannon: D+
Alex Kovalev: D+
Jonathan Cheechoo: F
Peter Regin: B
Nick Foligno: D+
Jarkko Ruutu: B

Chris Phillips: B+
Andy Sutton: C+
Chris Campoli: C+
Filip Kuba: C-
Anton Volchenkov: B+
Matt Carkner: B-
Erik Karlsson: B-

Pascal Leclaire: D
Brian Elliott: C (this one is a bit low)

GM Bryan Murray: B
Coach Cory Clouston: B-

What do Kelly, Ruutu, Neil, Phillips have to do to get an A?

Fisher and Alfie are too high. Phillips and Ruutu are too low.

I can buy that the grades probably won't jive with everyone's thoughts, but they have to be in the 'realm'. Let's say Phillips gets an A, I look at what he's done for the entire year - how he kept his head above water when A-Train went down, the leadership needed to keep the kids in check etc. For me, there's a lot that goes into an A. Ditto Alfredsson's A+, I felt he got that mark because he played injured for the stretch, knowing full well that if he didn't, there's a solid chance we miss the playoffs. Not to mention that he was a PPG player with a sports hernia.

Regin got a premature A. He would have gotten a B- or even a C+ until he found his game with Spezza, then it was that sample size I decided to go with. In other words, Regin is getting an A for sheer potential, mixed with the 6 game point streak and his playoff performance.

Karlsson gets an A because even though he made some errors in his own zone, he began the really difficult task of changing the philosophy here in Ottawa. A philosophy that needs changing, even if it means A-Train leaving. Our transition game all of a sudden became ten times more dangerous with Karlsson + he was on a 40 point pace at 19.

As long as the grades aren't outlandish, some of these are also rewards for 'stepping up'.

I find it a little sickening that Fisher gets an "A" while the guy that got him that "A" gets a "D+".

Also, Chris Neil deserved a "W" for WIN.