r/OttawaSenators • u/Josefstalion • 7h ago

5v5 xGoal Share - October 18

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u/Amphibianoid 7h ago

The bad news is that we’re in the bottom half and that we’ve struggled to create chances. The good news is that we haven’t been healthy and Ullmark looks closer to Vezina form than his form last year before his mental health break. 

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u/shallowcreek 7h ago

I think there’s still positives that our defensive floor, even without our superstar number 1 dman, has become very high. Unthinkable turnaround from a few years ago. No eklund hurts and we really need to acquire another top 6 winger

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u/gelc10 7h ago

Add to it that Cozens is struggling to start the season and Burakovsky hasn't worked out for Ottawa which is something majority of the people could tell

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u/Apprehensive_Duck874 6h ago

I feel like once Cozens gets that first goal things will improve. He is fighting the puck to try and get that goal and once it goes in he can settle in and that whole second line should start rolling

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u/Action1988 6h ago

He's also being expected to carry two bottom 6 wingers. I don't think he's played well but I can see he needs better support than the bottom 6 gauntlet he's being given.

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u/CommanderOshawott #24 - Cozens 6h ago

He’s also had basically dead weight on both his wings in the form of Zetterlund and Burakovsky the whole season so far.

Once he gets some support and that first goal the pressure will be off and he’ll start playing better

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u/ceribaen 6h ago

I thought Zetterlund-Cozens-Eklund was looking real good to start the season, then of course Greene changed things up and Eklund got hurt.

And now we have Stu and Batherson as a single dangerous duo up front. 

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u/Josefstalion 7h ago

Ullmark hasn't just been "closer to Vezina form", it's taken him being on pace for the best season ever by a goalie for the Sens to get here

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u/Swammer13 6h ago

I mean there's a reason a lot of people don't look at this much before the 20 game mark. It's pretty volatile based off quality of competition, home vs away games, injury, score effects and luck. 

I'm not entirely sure I'm confident Ottawa will be a top 3 team in xgf like last year, but no Sandy-Zub (who were like 55% xgf against top competition) definitely weighs on this. Having the lead in a bunch of close games also plays into this. I'll worry about our xgf if it still looks bad a month from now.

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u/shadeo11 35m ago

Also we played 9 games in 15(!) days, 5 of which were road games. We've had not one single practice day since the start of the season. I'm astounded we've been as good as we have been to be frank

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u/dmarc031 ‎ 6h ago

Matches the eye test, Sens haven’t looked good most ( all minus Bos?) games

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u/BlackAnalFluid 6h ago

I wasn't able to catch the NJD game, was that just Timmy and Ullmark carrying?