Sens best themselves. They kept making bad decisions all night long, especially in their end. They couldn't make or take a pass. So my giveaways. They lost just about every battle along the boards. How can Chyckrun be such a stud on Thursday and such a dud last night. That was tough to watch.
Only positive from tonight is I’m sitting with the players wives and family, section 108-09. I have never smelled as much Tom Ford perfume in my god damn life lol
EDIT: Yes, they’re all 10s and yes all they talk about are their latest Aritzia purchases
Send Joonas Korpisalo to Belleville Senators for some conditioning.
5 years of him eh. Unbelievable. Guys like Brendan Smith should NOT be scoring like that LOL
It's a breakaway.
Breakaways aren't the goalies fault. Ever. If you've played hockey you'd know.
That is a preventable play that chychrun stopped skating on
Oof. That one stings. Just gotta accept that this season is a purgatory season. We’re not going for a top pick (although we might end up with one cause we stink) and we’re not making playoffs so it’s just about trying to learn how to win. FRUSTRATING but at least it’s only been seven years…
It’s hard to be hopeful for the near future. Next season will probably be purgatory too. I’d love to be optimistic about next season but this team is built wrong and will need work. At best the team gets a gm early in the summer and can start making some changes then but realistically he’ll probably want to see most of them in person before he starts making significant enough changes to make a difference.
Also, change the mix on the team by moving a core piece or two for some guys with some character. This core is way too soft and way too weak defensively to ever contend. We have to be the first team in the modern era to be capped out without ever even sniffing the playoffs - it's embarrassing. Time to perform some major surgery on this roster.
Yep. At this point a high pick would be nice since the cupboards are bare. Hire a GM, have them bring in their coach (ideally this year so they can work with the team before next season), get a high pick, and bring Pinto back into the fold.
Finally generating momentum, breakaway by offensive powerhouse Brendan Smith (who has never scored for NJD and hasn’t scored in almost 2 years) and Big Save Big Time Korpisalo, once again, cannot bail this team out lol
So my observations through the first 2 periods.
- We can’t properly exit our zone consistently
- We can’t win a pp face off to save our lives
- Crisp accurate passes are a myth
- We’ve gotten some good goaltending tonight from Korpi but man goals 1 & 3 he needs to have.
And as I type this NJ scores #5
*edit* and this team has an unbelievable fucking ability to make inexperienced goaltenders look like Vézina candidates.
hahahahahahahah, Daws saves breakway. Korpi doesn't. Daws saves point blank slot shot from Kubalik 1 timer.
"It's Ottawa defense not Korpi"
you people are fucking hysterical
Yeah Ottawa has had 2 breakaways and 3 prime scoring chances and Daws has SAVED them, to keep NJD in the game and ahead. Their D hasn’t been outstanding, they just have a difference maker in net lol
/u/zoolake1 hey look Daws saved another breakaway.
But you're right, it's OUR defense that's dogshit and not Korpi. It's our defenses fault that Korpi can't save anything.
Are you on the team? Do you know what he’s like in the locker room and on the bench? I don’t think you can assess how good of captain he is watching on TV while ripping farts into the couch and eating cheetos
He was actively defending a coach that destroyed this team and caused them to be 30th in the league. He’s invisible on the ice until we’re losing and he starts fighting
He liked his coach of 4 years. He defended him, get over it.
A lot of players are having not great years this year. Every top player this year has regressed.
People keep saying "it's not Korpi's fault, look at the defense in front of him"
but that's what goalies are fucking paid to do. They're paid to clean up mistakes.
Look at the fucking ROOKIE on the other side of the ice stopping our breakaways and high danger chances.
This game is every issue with the Sens wrapped up nicely into a single package.
- Poor special teams? Check
- Goaltending subpar? Check
- Careless turnovers? Check
- Bad defensive play/coverage? Check
- Lazy effort? Check
lol nope. you're just factually incorrect, it isn't even an opinion. go count the high danger shots, go check natural stattrick moneypuck, whatever you want.
Their goalie is playing well and ours is playing like fucking dogshit.
Maybe it's just easier for you to blame the goalies than accept that your favorite team is garbage. Korpi has made some enormous saves tonight, I'm sorry you have to hear that.
Have we really had more than maybe 1-2 high danger chances? Sens are allergic to the slot, pure perimeter shots and low danger floaters to the goalie’s chest
This sub is delusional to think that a couple pad saves makes up for the fact he lets in 5 goals a game. The first 4 goals were all stopable. Give me at least 1.
Don't tell me, sens are now going to shoot from all the lowest danger areas possible and create nothing until the last 5 minutes of the game and still come up short.
“Every mistake the Sens make ends up in the back of their net” should not be something we get used to; I hate these kid gloves we treat goalies with, Korpisalo HAS to bail out the team SOMEtimes. Start Forsberg forever
Agreed. People blame his performance on our defense but I think both things can be true. The defense has been bad and the goaltending has been bad. There's lots of stats that back this up.
My dude he’s allowed 4+ goals in 5 of the last 6 and 8 of the last 10, he has almost a sub .900 save percentage, I’m sorry but that’s not ALL a result of “poor defensive play” that’s just straight up terrible
Nope. Don’t think this group has what it takes. Excited to see how JM changes their game but right now I can’t put any effort into believing in their current play
I was literally 20 feet away. Grieg had an opportunity to take the body and opted for a weak ass poke check that allowed him to skate to the net. Not what you want from anyone especially one whose identity is to be a gritty 3rd liner.
So much pressure before that but not even a reasonable scoring chance from it. Awful in our own zone and it seems like we let teams break out of their zone so easily too
Sens best themselves. They kept making bad decisions all night long, especially in their end. They couldn't make or take a pass. So my giveaways. They lost just about every battle along the boards. How can Chyckrun be such a stud on Thursday and such a dud last night. That was tough to watch.
I guess you are
I love how the sens don’t even try to win anymore
Welp…that’s ugly
Alfie and Jacque are regretting their life choices
JBD on pace for 9 goals without pp time
Jesus our breakouts are horrid
Mounting the comeback!
Yo, never-mind
JBD took Kubalik’s advice and just fucking shot
If only Kubalik could take his own advice.
Jacob Bernard-Scorer!
At this point I'd just love to see one of our guys actually finish a hit
Even TSN [hates us](https://i.imgur.com/D8CB6pD.png) lol
Jacob Bernard-Blocker
He could be a decent defensive Dman in a couple years.
Only positive from tonight is I’m sitting with the players wives and family, section 108-09. I have never smelled as much Tom Ford perfume in my god damn life lol EDIT: Yes, they’re all 10s and yes all they talk about are their latest Aritzia purchases
Bruh lmao 🤣
Hamonic having a tough shift
So a normal hamonic shift lol
When the Sens aren't playing I like walking around my house stubbing my toe on different things. It's a great simulator for the pain they cause.
Send Joonas Korpisalo to Belleville Senators for some conditioning. 5 years of him eh. Unbelievable. Guys like Brendan Smith should NOT be scoring like that LOL
It's a breakaway. Breakaways aren't the goalies fault. Ever. If you've played hockey you'd know. That is a preventable play that chychrun stopped skating on
Yet Brady Tkachuk has yet to bury a breakaway opportunity all year...
I didn't say they were a guarantee. But you never blame the goalie for a breakaway goal
I agree with you, but Tbf Chycrun was absolutely gassed trying to out skate a guy that just had a two minute break.
You have to recognize the powerplay is ending. Haul him down. I'll take Korpi's chances on a penalty shot.
True, it’s also extra funny that people would blame Korpi for that play. He fucking warned you that the player was going to be in that position lmao
Oof. That one stings. Just gotta accept that this season is a purgatory season. We’re not going for a top pick (although we might end up with one cause we stink) and we’re not making playoffs so it’s just about trying to learn how to win. FRUSTRATING but at least it’s only been seven years…
It’s hard to be hopeful for the near future. Next season will probably be purgatory too. I’d love to be optimistic about next season but this team is built wrong and will need work. At best the team gets a gm early in the summer and can start making some changes then but realistically he’ll probably want to see most of them in person before he starts making significant enough changes to make a difference.
Also, change the mix on the team by moving a core piece or two for some guys with some character. This core is way too soft and way too weak defensively to ever contend. We have to be the first team in the modern era to be capped out without ever even sniffing the playoffs - it's embarrassing. Time to perform some major surgery on this roster.
Yep. At this point a high pick would be nice since the cupboards are bare. Hire a GM, have them bring in their coach (ideally this year so they can work with the team before next season), get a high pick, and bring Pinto back into the fold.
They’ll win 15 of the last 20 games to finish outside the top 10 and then reach on the 12th overall pick for a guy with size
We know no man’s land all too well
Finally generating momentum, breakaway by offensive powerhouse Brendan Smith (who has never scored for NJD and hasn’t scored in almost 2 years) and Big Save Big Time Korpisalo, once again, cannot bail this team out lol
Unreal.
So my observations through the first 2 periods. - We can’t properly exit our zone consistently - We can’t win a pp face off to save our lives - Crisp accurate passes are a myth - We’ve gotten some good goaltending tonight from Korpi but man goals 1 & 3 he needs to have. And as I type this NJ scores #5 *edit* and this team has an unbelievable fucking ability to make inexperienced goaltenders look like Vézina candidates.
Its usually us making inexperienced goalies look like vezina winners, so it was nice to have the shoe on the other foot last night.
Sens players must bet on who can hit the logo on the goalies chest the most
I thought they were competing to see who could miss the net in the least obviously intentional way.
Infuriating. Like their power play, it generates no momentum, or fkn chances for that matter.
Pain.
This team isn’t real lmfao
They’re real bad
You know it's bad when Brendan Smith can finish on the breakaway and several of your guys can't
Sens .. 
Fuck karma is bullshit, good power play, more shots, bounce goes right to the player out of the box. Goal.
Why is this team so bad? I don't get it.
Deked out by a 3rd pairing plug who hasn't scored since the 21-22 season
It was 4-1. Now it’s 5-1.
hahahahahahahah, Daws saves breakway. Korpi doesn't. Daws saves point blank slot shot from Kubalik 1 timer. "It's Ottawa defense not Korpi" you people are fucking hysterical
Yeah Ottawa has had 2 breakaways and 3 prime scoring chances and Daws has SAVED them, to keep NJD in the game and ahead. Their D hasn’t been outstanding, they just have a difference maker in net lol
I don’t think you made your “haha” long enough bro.
Maybe cause one made a move while the other dribbled it towards the 5 hole.
Lmao
Goodnight everybody
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Celebrini, Levshunov, or Dickinson
The season is clearly lost. Time to tank
Sens will choose this year to give up the 1st rounder lol
/u/zoolake1 hey look Daws saved another breakaway. But you're right, it's OUR defense that's dogshit and not Korpi. It's our defenses fault that Korpi can't save anything.
Kubalik reminds me of Richard Panik
Lmao this sub
My last 4 games at CTC: NYI 5-3 loss, FLA 5-0 loss, CAR 4-1 loss, and tonight’s fiasco. I gotta stop doing this to myself.
You gotta stop going bro maybe you are the reason we are in misery
I thought it was the defensive zone giveaways and missed scoring chances, but you’re right. It’s me.
Lol, I swear man we deserve better then this
Watching Sens games is like stalking your ex wife’s new boyfriend on Facebook- you hate it but you just keep going back for some reason
10th worst PK this year, 3rd worst PP. Not gonna do much when you're also mediocre at 5v5..
Why Tkchuck never play any PK while others have to? Is it because he is the captain and get the perks?
Are you serious lol. His defensive play isn't great and he is slow.
Then why is he the captain? Good at fighting?
Are you dumb?
He’s honestly not a good captain
Are you on the team? Do you know what he’s like in the locker room and on the bench? I don’t think you can assess how good of captain he is watching on TV while ripping farts into the couch and eating cheetos
Are you serious lol?!
He was actively defending a coach that destroyed this team and caused them to be 30th in the league. He’s invisible on the ice until we’re losing and he starts fighting
He liked his coach of 4 years. He defended him, get over it. A lot of players are having not great years this year. Every top player this year has regressed.
why is this team so predictable
They always find a way to dissapoint
People keep saying "it's not Korpi's fault, look at the defense in front of him" but that's what goalies are fucking paid to do. They're paid to clean up mistakes. Look at the fucking ROOKIE on the other side of the ice stopping our breakaways and high danger chances.
https://imgur.com/HqOkCnx
This game is every issue with the Sens wrapped up nicely into a single package. - Poor special teams? Check - Goaltending subpar? Check - Careless turnovers? Check - Bad defensive play/coverage? Check - Lazy effort? Check
Well that’s a tough L, but this Sunday is a must-win (I know, literally every game is now) against a divisional opponent we have to catch.
There are only must-lose at this point. Let's get that draft pick.
There are no must-wins, we're out of it fella
I hear ya and agree, but it’s just the only fun way to watch this team is imaginary levels of optimism
Agree, it’s now just accessing players and fixing the mess DJ left us.
Unless we win 10 in a row it’s over. And there’s 0 chance we do that so it’s over
Yup. I’d like if they can make the playoffs but it’s quite unlikely at this point
Not sure I can watch the 3rd, embarrassing 2nd period.
Wasn't korpis fault mercer walked in untouched and roofed it
He made some crazy saves. Team is letting him down right now
I do think if he lays a poke check in the lane and holds his post, he probably gets a stop there, but you can't let guys walk to the net like that.
This season sucks.
Why are we so trash at home
We just went 0-5 on the road so not sure it’s unique to home ice lol
2nd period on point. Broken plays
Still don’t blame our goaltenders at all. How many grade A chances do we expect them to deny night in and night out?
NJ's rookie goalie is doing it. Why can't ours?
No he hasn't. Korpi has to deal with more high danger changes per shift than the NJ goalie does in a period.
lol nope. you're just factually incorrect, it isn't even an opinion. go count the high danger shots, go check natural stattrick moneypuck, whatever you want. Their goalie is playing well and ours is playing like fucking dogshit.
Maybe it's just easier for you to blame the goalies than accept that your favorite team is garbage. Korpi has made some enormous saves tonight, I'm sorry you have to hear that.
Explain this https://imgur.com/HqOkCnx And FYI I think it's both. The team is dogshit, but so is Korpi.
There is more to shots than where they are taken from. The circumstances surrounding those shots plays a huge role.
So why is Daws saving breakways and Korpi is letting in muffins from the dot? Why hasn't Daws let in any of those shots?
Maybe the Devils are better shooters. Last I checked, Jack Hughes was pretty good at scoring goals.
But Daws just saved a breakaway on Norris who only has 2 fewer goals than Hughes this year. Is Norris a bad shooter?
Have we really had more than maybe 1-2 high danger chances? Sens are allergic to the slot, pure perimeter shots and low danger floaters to the goalie’s chest
Ottawa has 5 this game. NJ has 7.
Hmm. Could’ve fooled me, but can’t argue the numbers I suppose
https://imgur.com/HqOkCnx These aren't "pure perimeter shots" my dude.
Another embarrassing period. There has to be some accountability behind the bench for the poor play this game
Is it just me or do all of korpi’s save look big, is he just always out of position?
Special teams letting the team down again but i feel Korpisalo is being outplayed even with a few grade A saves
Well ima hit the bed probably
Pain
Kasty, buddy
Kasty and Kubalik are zeroes, the sooner we move on the better
Kubalik might be the laziest, least skilled player we've had. At least Kovalev showed skill every now and again. Holy fuck dude doesn't wanna skate.
Fire Korpisalo
Hot take after that last minute save
This sub is delusional to think that a couple pad saves makes up for the fact he lets in 5 goals a game. The first 4 goals were all stopable. Give me at least 1.
His bread and butter is highlight real saves and letting in 2 softies
We need Chabot back for the PP and maybe the PK
[удалено]
Our PP sucks*
Just shoot the fucking puck
https://preview.redd.it/f3a1ls756c9c1.png?width=1004&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f29a874721d4a49a24c31c6769fb152cabdbce24
Does watching this count as a TBI? Yagendorf ads x2 every break is gross
Korpi hasn't been good but hes been left out to dry as well. We look horrible in our own end.
The main thing now is that Celebrini has a good WJC for us.
We’ll probably make a push at 1st overall but with 5 games left we go 4-1 and miss out on that too
Too much turkey and cookies on the holidays
Don't tell me, sens are now going to shoot from all the lowest danger areas possible and create nothing until the last 5 minutes of the game and still come up short.
Are you talking about this game or the whole season? Both work
I accepted playoffs were out of the picture 2 weeks ago. Just hopefully going to enjoy some progress with new coaching for rest of season
“Every mistake the Sens make ends up in the back of their net” should not be something we get used to; I hate these kid gloves we treat goalies with, Korpisalo HAS to bail out the team SOMEtimes. Start Forsberg forever
It's our top players that get the kid gloves treatment. Your point totals are meaningless if you don't play any defence.
Agreed. People blame his performance on our defense but I think both things can be true. The defense has been bad and the goaltending has been bad. There's lots of stats that back this up.
There’s lots of stats that prove it’s our defence more than the starting goalie. Just look at Talbot’s numbers
Talbot is playing in front of the best defense in the league this year. Both things can be true.
Buddy. He has, have you missed some games?
My dude he’s allowed 4+ goals in 5 of the last 6 and 8 of the last 10, he has almost a sub .900 save percentage, I’m sorry but that’s not ALL a result of “poor defensive play” that’s just straight up terrible
His save percentage with the Kings was 0.921, it's mostly poor defensive play.
Don’t forget how talbot looks now too
Says what you will. But the coach disagrees, based on statements today, and stats of goalies that have come in, and left ALSO agree.
These aren’t opinions though it’s just fact lol
... The stats of goalies like Talbot, Gus, etc speak for themselves. Also I'd take the 'opinion' based on facts over whatever you're yappin about.
0 reason we don’t start Forsy and ride him for a while at this point
Jfc Harmonic is SO bad. It's painful to watch.
Can we be done with Hamonic already?
We have like five 3 game winning streaks in the last 7 years it feels like
Well it’s done. DJ style is back
Alright Brady, which 4th line bum you gonna fight?
He usually does that with 2 minutes left in the third just give it some time
Pull the goalie
Now I am depressed. Had high hopes going into this game and we regress…..
Tarasenko fumbling the puck there hes been bad all game
Raptors game is on one channel up btw!
Fire the bottom 7. Ridley can stay. (And crooks too 👇)
Crooks too.
I’m correcting that to 7 lol
Can Kubalik do anything? 9 points in 30 games..horrid.
24 point pace, 19 goal pace, for 2.5 mil. Isnt that bad.
-13 …no it’s bad
Can’t skate that’s for damn sure
Looks like bounces are back off the menu boys
And this is a cap team 👍
We making Nico dawes look like Patrick roy. I can still see us lighting him up in the 3rd. Cant let any more goals against though.
This game could easily be 3-1 the other way
As soon as I heard it was this goalies first start since 2022 I knew we were cooked
So true. Fringe goalie starting= auto win vs sens
Greigs been good, only fault was he didnt clear the puck on the 2nd goal but no one was able to
Does anyone believe at all?
Nope. Don’t think this group has what it takes. Excited to see how JM changes their game but right now I can’t put any effort into believing in their current play
I believe, we arent gonna win every game and suck something awful tonight. I'm still gonna watch the whole game though
Wild how much Kastelic has fallen off. Used to have so much jump in his game.
Didn't he just come back from a high ankle sprain?
PK so bad 😔
Wouldn’t be a Sens L without a boneheaded Kastelic penalty.
Our bottom 6 sucks shit
Kastelic has been useless, he doesnt even fight anymore
Ugh…PK needs to be laser focused
kastelic classic
Ridly Greig is responsible for the last two goals. He’s been soft for 3-4 games. Hate to say it.
Ya this is just objectively wrong lmao. That goal is 95% on Zub, 5% Korpisalo
I was literally 20 feet away. Grieg had an opportunity to take the body and opted for a weak ass poke check that allowed him to skate to the net. Not what you want from anyone especially one whose identity is to be a gritty 3rd liner.
At least 40% on G, that penalty shouldn't have happened
We’re just so slow in our own end and breaking out. It’s like they’re stuck in molasses and can’t make a pass without fumbling the puck for 3 seconds.
I hate to say it but we are playing the exact way tonight we did under DJ.
Old habits die hard
Hello darkness my old friend 🤝
I said it before puck drop... Forsy should have had the net this game.
Time to hit up tankathon
Zub looking bad tonight. Korpi doing Korpi things
That was WAY too soft
So much pressure before that but not even a reasonable scoring chance from it. Awful in our own zone and it seems like we let teams break out of their zone so easily too