GDT: Senators @ Rangers - Nov 19, 2017, 7:00pm

PTFlea wrote:

Ev wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Very poor showing.  2 points gifted to a crappy team.  Poor.

You’re calling the rangers crappy? They were the favourites tonight

Not a fan of the makeup of that team and lundqvist is really overrated in my opine.

The Rags are a decent team and we were on the back half of a back to back that included travel. Lundqvist also played really well.

Ev wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:So at what point do we stop making excuses for the team?

This is the kind of post you make if you’re the oilers or some crap team. I hate how whenever we have slumps people say we’re shut and the sky is falling. The sens are fine. There’s no reason to dwell on it and make excuses or not make excuses. It’s literallt just the grind of the season

Again. The reason why we are so high in the standings is because we have so many looser points. We aren’t beating the teams we should be supposed to beat if we were true contenders. Sure we may not be crapping the bed like the oilers but if our time is now we have to be a lot better than we are.

Flo The Action wrote:

Ev wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:So at what point do we stop making excuses for the team?

This is the kind of post you make if you’re the oilers or some crap team. I hate how whenever we have slumps people say we’re shut and the sky is falling. The sens are fine. There’s no reason to dwell on it and make excuses or not make excuses. It’s literallt just the grind of the season

Again. The reason why we are so high in the standings is because we have so many looser points. We aren’t beating the teams we should be supposed to beat if we were true contenders. Sure we may not be crapping the bed like the oilers but if our time is now we have to be a lot better than we are.

We're in the exact same spot we were last season at this point in time. We just had a major lineup change (Duchene for Turris) and Bobby is just coming back and is a notoriously slow starter. Give it some time. We're in the mix, which is where we need to be.

Flo The Action wrote:

Ev wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:So at what point do we stop making excuses for the team?

This is the kind of post you make if you’re the oilers or some crap team. I hate how whenever we have slumps people say we’re shut and the sky is falling. The sens are fine. There’s no reason to dwell on it and make excuses or not make excuses. It’s literallt just the grind of the season

Again. The reason why we are so high in the standings is because we have so many looser points. We aren’t beating the teams we should be supposed to beat if we were true contenders. Sure we may not be crapping the bed like the oilers but if our time is now we have to be a lot better than we are.

Loser points mean we’re in almost every single game against any opponent . We’re a good team . Any team in the nhl can beat every other team on any night

I also don’t consider Ot or shootout losses to be actual losses. There have been very few games this season where the sens have had an actual bad game IMO

Anyone else concerned with Duchene's first 5 games of zero points and a minus 6?

The -6 is troublesome, but it's a meaningless statistic if not taken in context. Context here is the 3 game losing streak, combined with him not scoring. It'll come around.

I think he had 1 bad game and that was last night.

By the way, Turris has 0 pts and 2 shots on goal in his last 3. Ebbs and flows.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Anyone else concerned with Duchene's first 5 games of zero points and a minus 6?

Not at all personally

Yeah, I'm not concerned with Duchene only because he's been generating a lot of chances.