GAME DAY: Penguins @ Senators, 7:30PM, SNET/TSN1200

tim1_2 wrote:Only in Ottawa can you win 5-0 against the best team in your conference and have your coaches called out.  

Ev wrote:lol, from our pal Cujomi:

Made a goal saving pokecheck tonight and assisted on a slump-busting Conacher goal. His leadership off the ice was a big factor in getting the team motivated tonight.

Time for the team to turn the corner and move on to better things than the first half of the season.

An interesting note of course is that Spezza was +13 and -7 last night in CF/A giving him a CF% of 65 at even strength...in a game where scoring should have made that difficult (despite all the *****ing about Spezza). For a comparison Karlsson, who was universally praised last night, had a CF% of 62.

tim1_2 wrote:I was at the game.  I sure picked a good one to go too.  Plus my little 2 month old took in her first game (and slept through the entire thing)...so she was obviously the good luck charm.  

We kinda put up a dud in the 2nd period, but, like last year, goaltending held us in there and then we put the pedal down in the third after no doubt getting some "motivation" during the second intermission.  

It was wonderful to see Crysby crying about Methot's hip check after the game.  

Kassian played really well in his 6 minutes...he had a couple nice defensive plays, and threw the body around too.  He could play every night for us and I would have zero issue with that.

It was nice to see the ice time spread around to pretty much everyone...even Karlsson only played 23 mins.  Spezza only had 15.  There were 5 other forwards with more ice time than him.  

Pageau was really solid on the faceoffs going 8-3.

The penalty kill was fantastic.

There's still tons of room for improvement, but if we can take one of the next two versus Boston, that'll be another big confidence boost...we play a ton of road games in the next month or so, so the guys are gonna need all the confidence they can get.

tim1_2 wrote:Jesus guys, Cowen played a full six minutes more than Ceci.  Cowen also had a minor penalty, which would help explain why Ceci had more PK time than Cowen.  And of course Ceci will have more PK time than PP when Ottawa has 8 penalty kills and only 3 powerplays.  Spezza had a grand total of 41 seconds of PK time...where's the issue?????

Prags, if you're going to look at the stats, look at all of them.

Ev wrote:lol, from our pal Cujomi:

Made a goal saving pokecheck tonight and assisted on a slump-busting Conacher goal. His leadership off the ice was a big factor in getting the team motivated tonight.

Time for the team to turn the corner and move on to better things than the first half of the season.

An interesting note of course is that Spezza was +13 and -7 last night in CF/A giving him a CF% of 65 at even strength...in a game where scoring should have made that difficult (despite all the *****ing about Spezza). For a comparison Karlsson, who was universally praised last night, had a CF% of 62.