GAME DAY: Boston Bruins @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30pm ET - Thu. Mar. 21st, 2013

Very solid.

Made Seidenberg look like a rookie on that one play

Patty Wiercioch tied for the team lead with 29 shifts. He managed his shifts well, averaging 40 seconds. All of his ice time was at even strength. He's an interesting player.

I really didn't think he'd make it. It's great to see.

What a fun team this is right now.

Wiercioch has always been a big time project but he always had the NHL upside as a top 4 guy. Still a little weaker than he should be but it might take him 3, 4 more years to really get that 'man' strength that younger players have.

As for last night, perfect night to lose but it sucks the way they lost. Sens have had enough things go right their way this year in terms of wins and loses so w/e, not a big deal.

NEELY wrote:Sens lost absolutely no ground tonight.

Eh? Leafs got a point and closed their gap, and the B's widened their gap... or do you mean relative to 9th spot?

SpezDispenser wrote:Gave them all they could handle. Pretty damn good game - Dung outcome though obviously, but we've been doing that to teams all year.

So close to getting at least a point... but yeah, they gave the B's fits...

shabbs wrote:

NEELY wrote:Sens lost absolutely no ground tonight.

Eh? Leafs got a point and closed their gap, and the B's widened their gap... or do you mean relative to 9th spot?

9th spot. Ottawa finishing 5th or 6th is probably exactly where they want to be. Toronto also plays Boston back to back coming up so you assume Ottawa will gain a little ground on Saturday night.

Hard to be mad about this loss. Bruins just got a couple flukey goals and that was that. We got zero bounces.

I thought the officiating was pretty good, except for a couple gaffs...they missed Caron's high-stick on Neil, which should've landed us a 4 minute powerplay, and then the penalty to K-Daug in that scrum should've been balanced out by a penalty to Lucic.

Z-Bad went 7-4 on faceoffs, but he likely wasn't taking them against Bergeron much of the time.

The Alfie lead forwards in ice time with 20 minutes. He also lead the team in blocked shots, with 4.

Lundin may have played his last game with the Senators, assuming Methot plays on Saturday, and no one else gets injured. I think I'd be fine with that. He's not a terrible 7th d-man, but everyone else is clearly better than him.

Latendresse plays with a bit of an edge, and I really like that, but he's got to learn to shut his mouth to the refs. That's not going to do him any favours.


On the Boston front, I think they should bench Horton. The guy was pretty much useless/invisible out there. He should be like a slightly smaller Lucic, but just doesn't have any oomph to his game right now at all. If I were the Bs, I'd be trying to trade him at the deadline.

So PMac didn't know what was up with Gonchar. Just that he left. Didn't know if it was a blocked shot or if something tightened up... hopefully it's nothing... we need Methot back and Gonchar to stay in our lineup.

Next up is TBay on Saturday afternoon at SBP. Need a win there.

Need to beat Tampa for sure. It's always good to bounce back after a loss with a win at home, don't need a losing streak right now that's for sure. Put 2 more in the bank and inch that much closer to the playoffs and a healthy lineup.

Yeah, back to back vs Boston will be tough for the Leafs... Tampa and New Jersey are the Sens' next two... gotta capitalize.

The only two teams that have given up less goals than the Sens...Chicago and Boston. And they've both played fewer games. Good company.

tim1_2 wrote:The only two teams that have given up less goals than the Sens...Chicago and Boston. And they've both played fewer games. Good company.

Yeah, in terms of GA/G, Ottawa is in the lead.

Team GA/G
1 OTTAWA 2.03
2 BOSTON 2.07
3 CHICAGO 2.10

Taken from this page.

Those NHL.com stats are a little old. TSN's stats would have Boston at 2.10 and Ottawa at 2.16

LeKing wrote:Made Seidenberg look like a rookie on that one play

Where he flipped it up over him and skated by him? That would have been awesome if he had scored.

shabbs wrote:Yeah, back to back vs Boston will be tough for the Leafs... Tampa and New Jersey are the Sens' next two... gotta capitalize.

Just keep Brodeur off the scoresheet.

tim1_2 wrote:Those NHL.com stats are a little old. TSN's stats would have Boston at 2.10 and Ottawa at 2.16

Nope, NHL.com keeps theirs updated. TSN does not have team stats like that, so I assume you are just adding up the goalie goals given up, dividing by minutes total, multiplying by 60? There are also empty net goals to keep in mind.

Just go with the NHL.com stats.

SpezDispenser wrote:

LeKing wrote:Made Seidenberg look like a rookie on that one play

Where he flipped it up over him and skated by him? That would have been awesome if he had scored.

Daug had another rush with a shot from the other side -- would have been even more awesome if he had scored on that one.