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[deleted]

Point against Boston and Winnipeg, I don’t give a shit that’s a W for this franchise


MercSLSAMG

Being annoyed at only getting 2 points against Boston and Winnipeg is more like it. It's growth for sure.


Hinkadoo

Fully agree, 6 weeks ago we would have gone down two in the first and buckled from there


[deleted]

Yeah maybe it’s unfair of me to say but I feel like if DJ is still here these are 5-1 losses or some shit so there is definitely a real improvement.


[deleted]

Oof that hurts


Big-Ticket5868

"this franchise" is an odd way to word it. "This team" sure


[deleted]

I’m French doing my best


Big-Ticket5868

hahaha my b


Spez_Dispenser

Gotta keep things normal around here for 'ol u/Big-Ticket5868


Big-Ticket5868

It's not that deep u/Spez_Dispenser


Dismal-Safety3524

You should be saying that to yourself, what does it matter if someone calls it “this team” or “this franchise”


Big-Ticket5868

Bro I was just stating that it’s weird to say that almost beating Boston and Winnipeg is a win for this franchise as a whole, which encapsulates management, owners, and all previous iterations of the roster. For this current team, and how we’ve performed this season, yes it’s a win.


Dismal-Safety3524

“It’s not that deep” someone once said.


Big-Ticket5868

No one said that bro you’re drunk


Dismal-Safety3524

Bro you literally just said that, thats what I was replying to in the first place what are you on about 😭 You gotta be the drunk one,


ninjasinc

“This club” is the way to go


Big-Ticket5868

I think "us" suffices.


69dawgystyle69

Fuck off


VesaAwesaka

5 games with less than 4 or more goals against. The team may no longer be terrible defensively.


MercSLSAMG

And for the first time I'll agree that it should have been less, Korpi got too cold back there and couldn't step up like the rest of the team.


DJSTEVEINNIAMIXX

Mate, Korp is statistically the worst goalie in the league this year. The first time???


MercSLSAMG

I've been saying the defense wasn't helping him at all and leaving him hung out - which they definitely were. But tonight he's got to have 1 of those 3 at least. Defense can't be leaned on for any of the 3


firsttime_longtime

Depends on your definition of when a team starts playing defense... theoretically if Tkachuk even remotely touches that puck that he whiffs on, the play is entirely different and we're talking about a whole different situation. ​ 2nd goal, arguably, is major defensive lapse at the blue line and a possible screen on the shot


MercSLSAMG

2nd goal I think Korpi lost his net, he was too far to the glove side. Sure if the other team never touches the puck they'd never score - but that's a 2 on 1 shot from high in the circle with the pass well cut off. That's a save you need. Tkachuk was going for the win - I have no issue with that play from him, can't be playing not to lose and just stopping the puck. Much prefer seeing him playing to win


DJSTEVEINNIAMIXX

Its not even that though. He got lost multiple times during the game, multiple posts, generally just looked uncomfortable. There's a reason he was -1.44 GSAA


homicidal_penguin

Defense is looking better, forwards are playing better defensively too. Just need goaltenders to step up


jasonalloyd

We spent almost a full period against them with an extra player and weren't able to score during that time.


VesaAwesaka

For about two months the team was giving up 4 goals against every other game. The fact that they have gone 5 in a row without giving up 4 goals against to me is a remarkable improvement and very encouraging despite other areas needing improvement.


BAD_CAN77

Team deserved both points tonight as the far beter team. I love the way they are playing under Jacques. As soon as they stopped pouting and started listening things have done a 180. Timmy and Chabot were both outstanding tonight.


Purple-Expression373

Nice to see Chabby playing well again!


gelc10

Another great game played by the sens (the PP looked shaky at first but were able to capitalize on 2 of their opportunities), down 2-0 but tie it and an entertaining OT but we at least get a point. Tip your cap to Swayman as he was great in this game (similar to the OT lost against the jets where Helleybuck stood on his head). 3-0-2 over the past 5 games where we have played great during this stretch.


bumpy_santa

My god bruins fans are so obnoxious


kermittunesguits

This really got to me tonight, leaf’s and habs fans sure, I get it. Seeing that many bruins jerseys absolutely pissed me off


Sallo10

Yeah cause then it’s actual people living in Ottawa who support the bruins vs. Travellers coming in the city


ottnative84

Right? The reason Boston won is because Ottawa is brutal on the PP


KatelynC110100

As a panthers fan, I know


RelationshipNo4528

Toronto though 😂 “WE WANT FLORIDA”


DevOpsMakesMeDrink

They were chanting both we want Boston and we want florida


KatelynC110100

Oh god lol. Didn’t go to a leafs playoff game here in Florida, but did go to two bruins playoff games here and they were insufferable lol


FragrantHockeyFan

Why is a panthers fan here?


KatelynC110100

Cause I love hockey


[deleted]

And we love the Panthers, you did the world a great service eliminating Toronto and Boston.


Senscore

They're called massholes for a reason


WRHeronkill

Props for coming back in that game. Mental space is better that's for sure.


TurnoverMission

The upside is we still got points in our losses. Previously we couldn’t even attempt going OT with how bad we played under DJ


otttitan21

We played a good game, got a point, and it was against the second best team in the league. Can’t complain there


Big-Ticket5868

The fact that we came back from down 2-0 means so much more than I think people realize.


otttitan21

agreed. We even had a really close goal called back, so I wouldn't be surprised if we won that game if the call on the ice was correct


s3nsfan

Huuuuuuuge!


Big-Ticket5868

On a separate note, can we have a word with the guys in the TSN truck who make it a point to show a close-up of every opposing fan in our building, every fucking game? It's fucking infuriating, give it a rest you nerds.


otttitan21

Meh, I still take it over Sportsnet any day


Big-Ticket5868

Absolutely. But TSN5 is our regional broadcast, wouldn’t mind a bit of homerism like we get on TSN1200.


nickpol89

🤣


[deleted]

I was at the game and it was pretty much impossible for them not to. The building was like 70% Boston fans.


Big-Ticket5868

I find that hard to believe, the last Sens/Boston game I went to was like 25% boston fans, and most of them were in the 100s


[deleted]

Ok well I don't really know what to tell you. I have been to plenty of Boston games and there were never that many Boston fans. It was probably because season ticket holders sold them off during that horrible stretch.


valleygoat

Boston had no business winning that game


Valentine96

They were 100% on the PP though.


boro74

They had 22 shots on goal.  I'm surprised they didn't score 4 goals!


[deleted]

Imagine where this team could be if they'd hired Jacques Martin instead of DJ Smith. Martin interviewed and PD chose the other guy. It's been a few weeks and they're hanging with the Bruins.


andys1548

Dorion doesn’t want people who are smarter than him working under him


[deleted]

Not to pile on, but I think that's 100% true. People forget Martin was also a GM. Dorion never hired anyone who was older or more experienced than he was.


BAD_CAN77

Which eliminates about 95% of the people on the planet...


homicidal_penguin

Wouldn't shock me if true. Was probably happy when Melnyk hired McGuire, he knew he wouldn't be outshined


Ok_Compote_8826

I don't think so. I thought the rumour was that McGuire reached out to Dorion about a potential job, and Dorion told him no. Then someone told McGuire to reach out to Melnyk instead, and when he did, Melnyk hired him. I think Shawn Simpson might've been the guy to tell him to reach out to Melnyk directly, but I'm not 100% sure. Think this story came from him.


zuginator1

Yes, it was Shawn Simpson.


[deleted]

I'm fuckin' happy with that loss.


Hue_Jassman

Of course that Ratatouille looking bastard scores the game winner…


Maxterchief99

LMAO


spencerr13

3-0-2 in the last 5 with 2 PPG and a .880 merchant in net. We’re heading to good places folks, loved to see Jacques reward pinto with top line minutes when Josh was flailing


Rocket-Rabbit27

Hate to say it, but goaltending was the difference. Defense was solid enough to win that game


Ambassador_Kwan

Too bad they had the #1 and #2 goalie to choose from


Ok_Compote_8826

And we had #59 and #60 lol


Big-Ticket5868

Korpi has stopped 92 of the last 100 shots he's faced. He hasn't been bad, but when guys like Hellebuyck and Swayman pull save after save out of their ass, it's hard to keep up.


JBVsev

Both OT goals are goals he should have had. It’s not about pulling saves out of his ass, it’s about stopping basic shots. 


[deleted]

He was bad this game. The last 2 goals he let it were soft as hell.


RelationshipNo4528

Exactly what I said would be going into this game. Swayman is just a fucking goat rn


Arinoch

Arguably Power Play was the difference. Agreed, I wasn’t super thrilled with Boston’s goals (I’ve seen way worse), but we barely capitalized on the hundred power plays we got.


TurnoverMission

Well missing the puck completely which led to the odd man rush on that wide open net was the difference


Clojiroo

You know it was bouncing, yeah?


RelationshipNo4528

Stu easily could’ve shot the puck at Swaymans pads and got a greasy rebound which you’re taught to do in timbits but yeah let’s blame tkachuk for not being a world champion ping pong player. This sub is hilarious eh? 😂


TurnoverMission

Well if it was Stuz you know he’d bat that out of the air. But what I’m saying is THAT really was the difference whether you call that an unlucky bounce or whatever, when it comes down to it the game was closer than just goaltending, cause Swayman’s goaltending wouldn’t of save that if the puck went in favor of what Brady is capable of. You can tell because Swayman didn’t even attempt the lateral.


[deleted]

Goaltending was the difference - but only because Swayman was exceptional, not because Korpisalo wasn't good. He was! The goals were not especially soft and he made some huge saves, including in OT.


CantaloupeHour5973

Are there that many people from New England in Ottawa or is it just a bunch of losers whose grandpas were Bruins fans when there were only 10 teams in the league


LeaveMyPantsAlone

The latter for sure. Sports fandom is always about winning, so people choose the easy teams to cheer for so they can brag about it to others lol


shtoopsy

They're Sens season ticket holders that jumped ship a few weeks ago.


Acousticsound

Their franchise is 3x older than the Sens and has cups... I don't think these are fairweather Ottawa fans...


UnparalleledSuccess

The lower bowl ones are largely from sens season ticket holders that sell their tickets at inflated prices for high demand teams, and corporate seats where they might have 1 or 2 bruins fans in a company of say 50 people, and when there’s only a couple bruins games a year that’s who they’ll send. As for the fans themselves, they’ve been good a long time and the sens have been bad. It’s probably a lot of bandwagoners from here mixed in with people actually from Boston.


Big-Ticket5868

Tough one to swallow. With how we started and carried the play for long stretches, it was a very winnable game. On the other hand, gotta commend the boys for battling back from down 2-0 to force OT and get a point.


Maxterchief99

Damn fucking annoying loss, Swayman was the difference.


gladrock

Great game by the sens. Points are meaningless at this point so I just want to see structure and skill. We've seen that in spades the past 6 games or so. I suppose it's that time of year again - when the sens make me believe that *next* year will be better.


TopCheeseSwiss

We were robbed of playoff hockey this year. This is a good team


jonlmbs

It’s a good team underneath that played abhorrently bad for the months that matter


Scallybrat

GG Got Goalied


Wheatties3326

Anyone know what happened to Greig?


SorryImCanad1an

Good catch… I don’t remember him in the.. 3rd?


joebeau99

That korp contract hurts


RelationshipNo4528

He looked like hogberg on that last goal but I can’t complain with how he’s been lately


MercSLSAMG

Rough game for sure. Soggy has to get the next start


Turbulent-Scene-1606

He made some unreal and kept us in the game? 1st goal: no chance, 2 goal: a snipe show, 3 goal he had to cover for the pass. Not sure what else you can ask from a goalie?


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Turbulent-Scene-1606

When goaltending is the same issue every year, it’s how we’re playing defensively when it comes to league average numbers. It’s no surprise that the last few games when we’ve been more structured in our zone, Korpisalo has had good numbers. Unless you have elite goaltending, which only a handful of teams have, you have to limit high danger scoring chances that we tend to give up way too easily.


Middle-Hair

Can’t say every well placed shot is a no chance save. 1st goal was a slap shot from the point with a single skater between the shooter/goalie. 2nd was a wrist shot from outside the circles with a skater halfway between the shooter/goalie. 3rd was a guy on the dot who beat him clean far side. None of the goals were weak per se, but all of them were very saveable. None of them were off of HD chances either. Both NST and Moneypuck had the Bruins xG around 1.6 and he gave up 3. The goalie is allowed to make saves on tough shots. Can’t just brush off every nice shot into a corner as a for sure goal.


[deleted]

Reducing Pasta's goal to a slap shot from the point is insane. He was top of the circle, right off the draw, and one of if not the best shooters in the league. And that was 0.6 xG from an AVERAGE shooter.


Middle-Hair

Even if you consider the Pastrnak goal as one he had no chance on, he still gave up two more goals where he had a great chance to stop. This isn’t just a one off game where had wasn’t at his best. For the majority of the year he’s had games like this. Where he isn’t terrible, but is below average. There’s a reason he’s near the bottom in every major goalie stat.


[deleted]

I think you could argue the Frederic goal was a bit soft, but I'm not blaming Korpi on 1 or 3. And I've been quite critical of him! He just wasn't the problem tonight. The Senators played well enough to win and got goalie'd. It happens.


Turbulent-Scene-1606

They’re still high danger chances, the team ahead of him has to do a better chance to limit them. He made a lot of high danger saves tonight to help us


Middle-Hair

A slapshot from the point with a half screen from a dude 15ft out is not a high danger chance. A wrist shot from the top of the dots on the rush with another half screen isn’t a high danger chance. Korpisalo made some good saves tonight and actually did stop all of their high danger chances. None of the goals were weak goals, but a bunch of medium danger goals going in isn’t good enough. The team limited Boston, one of the best teams in the league, to 23 shots and 1.6 xG. That’s a great job defending. Teams are going to give up chances every night. Almost every goal against starts as a mistake from someone. The goalie is supposed to bail the team out when that happens.


homicidal_penguin

His contract and the Norris one may both become very detrimental to the success of this team.


fraserinottawa

Korpisalo can’t be relied on to make a big save. He’s such a boner killer.


Exotic_Cookie2972

Ahhhh tough one :( We have a point streak


SchroederBoss

Bruins gotta be the luckiest team in the league, everything goes in for them


UnparalleledSuccess

Two elite goalies leaves a lot of room for error


Big-Ticket5868

100%


aviaquatica

A well earned point, anyway


RobotTimeTraveller

Yeah, they lost, but that was still a good game.


Xpert9026

Honestly a good game by the sens. Managing to get a point in games against the Bruins and Jets tells me this team is on the right track.


BolshoiSasha

Korpisalo and unscreened shots from afar lol how long are half of you going to defend this guy


boro74

Can't win with such a low sv %


Big-Ticket5868

He's stopped 92 of the past 100 shots he's faced. And how are you gonna claim "unscreened shots" when the first goal against tonight, he was screened by Kelly (same as the one goal he let in on Tuesday)


BolshoiSasha

He’s our starter and he’s 77th in the league for sv%.


Big-Ticket5868

He's had rough stretches for sure but that's coincided with the whole team's defensive structure being a gongshow. It's not a coincidence that the past 4-5 games where we've played solid, defensive hockey, his numbers have improved. How many goalies need to come through here, get pounded, then go elsewhere and find success for us to stop blaming the goalies and realize there's an underlying issue (that seems to finally be getting fixed)


Calhalen

Fuuck I wanted that one so bad. Still though, super impressive effort again. Keep this up and this will be a friggin good couple of months. Goddamn it


ChippewaBarr

I usually give Korpi a pass but he literally is incapable of being clutch. Just have zero confidence in him when every shot from anywhere on the ice is a danger to him. Also most emotion I've seen out of Chabot in years tonight. Last number of games overall team is looking way better. Jets and Bs to OT is a win in my books lol


L8R-BRAH

Korpisalo cost us the game


BolshoiSasha

He’s cost us a bunch of games. People here adore him though. If the fans clench at every shot against, doesn’t matter from where, imagine how anxious the team in front of him has felt all season.


Big-Ticket5868

Nah Swayman won them that game


DarkstonePublishing

Exciting end! Real unfortunate that puck jumped of Tkachuks stick. Ah well


TurnoverMission

The lack of back check was disturbing. But we’re playing better hockey we had points in our past 5 games.


RangerDanger10

That is a game where DJ’s classic bounces comment would be 100% valid.


RelationshipNo4528

Good fucking game gentlemen, heads up


solidprospect

good game though


[deleted]

Solid effort against a tough team. Nothing much to complain about. Still optimistic.


NewKidsOnTheBetaBloc

Korpi lost us that game


Big-Ticket5868

Nah, Swayman won them that game


CantaloupeHour5973

Swayman kind of annoying tbh


shtoopsy

That goalie chest-bump was NBA cringe but maybe I'm just bitter.


Big-Ticket5868

Hella cringe celly acting like it's NCAA hockey


Salt-Government698

We are a different team 5 on 5 right now. I'm very impressed with the way they are playing. Norris and Tkachuk need to be split up. They are both struggling. Sanderson is the man.


MattIpp44

How’d we look tonight? Went to turn it on hoping there’d be some left just saw the OTL


Memes4Gold

Dominated 1st and 3rd periods, but Korpisalo really struggled. Overall great effort tonight, should have won 3-2 in regulation but a poor call by the refs took away a goal.


Coaxke

God I love sports fans. In a game where we had 6x as many PPs as the Bruins, and where the Refs made the correct call on a hand pass, it's the refs fault they lost 🤣


Memes4Gold

help help im being bullied online by a sports fan


Big-Ticket5868

We should've won.


[deleted]

Boston feels like a heavier team.


banner55

Disappointing way of ending this game for sure but man if someone would have told me few weeks ago we would get one point against one of the best team in the nhl I would have never believed jt. Definately heading in the right direction.


Smooth_Ad_3309

Huge point. Great comeback. They’ve looked so much better lately.


IHateReddit777

Feels so good to cheer for our team in a good game. It’s so much better to lose this way, good game against a great team. Things may actually be turning around for us FINALLY. Really happy about it.


xnormajeanx

Bruins fans are unbelievable, their team played like shit but they moan about the refs instead of enjoying their win. Having 6 penalties to 1 doesn’t mean anything in a vacuum. We looked really great, honestly better than the MTL game. Defense was solid and took away a lot of chances. Korpisalo was not good. It’s too bad.


Amazing-Place-8182

Chabot and Sanderson both looked so fucking good tonight. It is so clear that Chychrun is the odd man out here.


CeedeeNumber88

Just once can the goalie win us a god damn game. Besides that the boys are killing it the last few games.


blewdreaming

Frustrating as fuck we lost our last 2 over time games after plays where we missed opportunities. Chabot wiffed vs Winnipeg and Brady wiffed tonight and those could've been the difference. Stu was playing like a madman in that OT, would be nice to some of that from the captain, i love Brady but hes has a few too many no shows this season for me.


Aichetoowhoa

I’m just here to downvote negative shit


BAD_CAN77

It's important to have life goals...


Aichetoowhoa

Still haven’t blocked me?


BAD_CAN77

Why would I? I enjoy a good laugh. How about you just spread positive takes after a good Sens performance instead of whining about negativity?


NewKidsOnTheBetaBloc

That hug thing they do is so cringe ngl


_Kony_2020

Fuckin shit


Stealth__b2

Sanderson needs to understand he can take the shot in that scenario when Tkachuk back checks as hard as he does on the pass.


Action1988

I don't think Tkachuk was back all the way so he had to play it almost 50/50


Stealth__b2

I disagree. With Sanderson there he can force the player. Odds are the pass isn't getting through clean with Tkachuk coming back/Sanderson forcing the play


karma911

Communication is key. Not always easy though


Valentine96

Our powerplay was entirely responsible for that loss. Decent game otherwise.


Aichetoowhoa

What are you saying? Out two goals were on PP


Valentine96

Yeah and they had 6 chances. Bruins had literally 3 seconds. Refs gifted us that point.


IM_OSCAR_dot_com

Brady not gonna sleep tonight after that whiff. I don’t blame him for it but to look at that much net only to lose the game immediately. Gotta hurt. But still what a game against an elite team. We’ll take the point thankyouverymuch


TurnoverMission

How you wiff on that wide opened net


SorryImCanad1an

Pucks bounce


Clojiroo

I’m convinced half of y’all watch these games on compressed 480p streams outta Russia. It bounced over his stick.


Ihaveabudgie

Brady has been brutal since calling out the fans. Couldn't control the puck all game


SorryImCanad1an

He has 18 points in his last 20 games. 25 in his last 30. In the past 5-10 games he’s been leaning into his powerforward playstyle a lot more and has been his best he’s been all year, points or not.


GreatAuntMuriel

Brady has been playing great the past 5-10 games.


komputernik

Oh, the luxury of being disappointed in place of having one's worst fears confirmed.


sensfan4tic

Everyone's mad at Brady for missing a bouncing puck going Mach 3 but not at Kelly for standing infront of korpisalo for the first goal or korpisalo letting in some goals where he looks slow as a turtle...


Middle-Hair

Team has been playing very well lately. Basically since the Sharks game. They’ve really clamped down defensively and almost cut their HDCA in half. Makes me more annoyed that they held onto DJ for so long. Imagine if they made the change a few weeks earlier when they had all that time off. Sucks that goaltending was the difference again, but that’s the case. Putting up an 870% isn’t good enough, and -1.4 GSAx isn’t good enough. Korpisalo has been playing better the last few games, but this was more like the Korpisalo we’ve been seeing all season. Even with the Sens playing much better defensively and controlling play more often, it still stands out that the goalies are still not great and it wasn’t all on the defensive play.


jonlmbs

Imagine if they hired a proper coach a year or two ago


Hmswarspite55

Korpi needs to work on angles. That i Ot goal has no chance if he just cuts the angle down, the Bruin coming down right wing was covered so just play the shooter. The other two goals were well placed blocker side shots and a third was going in until it hit butt end and knocked the stick right out of his hand. Hopefully the new goalie coach can work with him on this.


Hmswarspite55

It is like they are trying to make the people watching from home think the arena is mostly Bruin fatasses.


DinerBiscuit

As someone who was there, it was pretty much 60/40 sens/bruins fans… not quite like a game vs the habs or leafs, but certainly not ideal


ImAUnionMan

Man, am I glad we signed korpisalo instead of taking a run at swayman last off season.... /s. That kid is a beast and it's boggling to me that no one at least fired across an offer sheet at a cap crunched Boston team...


TotSaM-

I'll take this loser point gracefully lol


NailRX

Was at the game. Boston played great, lots of blocked shots/passes. Korpi was Korpi, felt our neutral zone play was great. D was good overall. Happy with the loser point.


jonlmbs

It’s too bad it’s basically too late for loser points to matter. If we can learn to play like this in November we are a wild card team or better easily


dprouse52

That puck jumping over Tkachuk's stick in OT - oof. Man that hurts...


reiberica

Chabby, and Stu looked unreal. So happy we played with Winnipeg and Boston! Two ties, awesome!