Game 12 - Senators @ Blackhawks

[Josh]

GO SENS GO!!!

[Josh]

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[Josh]

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3-2 Sens halfway through the game. Their third goal was scored after an amazingly shifty zone-entry by Bobby Ryan that won't make it's way into the highlights, but was really a moment of him taking the game into his own hands.

[Josh]

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Zibby makes it 4-2! Khabibulin gets yanked!

[Josh]

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Really solid of Zibanejad to stick with that play...

[Stylizer]

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Sens suck

[Josh]

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They were playing a pretty solid game. They held the lead for a while and stayed within one goal of the defending champs. I think that's not too bad.

[_13_]

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They were playing a pretty solid game. They held the lead for a while and stayed within one goal of the defending champs. I think that's not too bad.

Have you been listening to the walrus again? :D

[Dean Ambrose]

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Gotta say, I fully expected the Sens to be dominating this year. Didn't expect this play.

[Matt the Aussie]

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That was a shambolic performance defensively. Bush league.

There were several blown assignments that lead to key goals.
- On one of the goals, I think it was Cowen (?) that basically tells Michalek "I could take this guy but instead I'm gonna collapse some more and you can bust your gut backchecking and slashing instead", that directly led to a goal.
- Then, Turris is not watching where the puck is, instead he's faced away from the goal looking directly at Toews...and Toews still scores on him!
- How about the time that Karlsson just wasn't paying enough attention and Toews skates in unopposed behind him??!!

You can't win games playing this way. No team should have to score 7 goals in order to win on a nightly basis.

[Alfie11]

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I'm not really even worried yet.

We had to start six in a row on the road. Other teams will have to do that later on in the season, we got away with it right off the bat. We've played teams like San Jose and Anaheim twice, Chicago, Detroit, LA. We've played plenty of very good teams and gotten them out of the way. We're three wins out from top three in the division with a game in hand and five out of our next six opponents are sub-.500 teams and most of November is home games.

This coming up month I expect the Sens to start racking up wins and moving up the standings. The following needs to be removed from our game:

- turnovers
- lazy work ethic
- slow starts / going down early
- bad penalties

[Matt the Aussie]

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Yeah, but what really eats away at me is that the Sens HAD Chicago. 2 goal lead on the road late in the second. You have to be able to close those games out, no matter who you play.

[Alfie11]

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Yeah, but what really eats away at me is that the Sens HAD Chicago. 2 goal lead on the road late in the second. You have to be able to close those games out, no matter who you play.

Yeah. I'm not talking about what's happened, just what's ahead.

But you're right. This game and the second game we played this year which was against Toronto were both very winnable games. We should have beat them and had three more points than we currently do. Oh well...let's hope it doesn't come back to haunt us.

[Josh]

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The following needs to be removed from our game:

- turnovers
- lazy work ethic
- slow starts / going down early
- bad penalties

All staples of Sens hockey, I'm afraid. At least we don't have to watch them dump every single puck anymore...!

[Alfie11]

Re: Game 12 - Senators @ Blackhawks

The following needs to be removed from our game:

- turnovers
- lazy work ethic
- slow starts / going down early
- bad penalties

All staples of Sens hockey, I'm afraid. At least we don't have to watch them dump every single puck anymore...!

It sucks how the last two years we went from being a team that had one of the best work ethics in the league and was never ready to give up and now this year it's pretty much the opposite.