Two more regulation loses for the organisation. Ottawa lost a crazy game that they had no business being in–despite poor play and mediocre goaltending, they nearly beat the Leafs (boxscore link). Just like in Detroit, they had a decent start, collapsed, and then rallied in the third period. This is exactly the kind of thing I expect of a young team and the fact that they don’t quit is encouraging.
Paul MacLean was not happy with the team (link), “I’d rather talk about the first period and the second period than the third-period comeback. I’m tired of talking about that already. The first period, the game was going fine for us, we get a goal scored against us and then we stopped playing. We resorted to old habits not playing as a team. We started to become individuals and that doesn’t work in this league.”
The Ottawa Citizen‘s Ken Warren points the finger at Chris Phillips as a major factor in the Sens poor play (link), “DUD: Chris Phillips, Senators. He is off to a rough start in his attempt to rebound from a poor 2010-11 season. He was repeatedly beaten to the puck by Maple Leafs forwards. Just as it was Friday, though, it was hard to single out any particular Senators defenceman for having a rough night.”
I’m not sure any player particularly stood out in a positive way, as must struggled. Zenon Konopka received the least ice time, while Chris Neil spent a lot of time in the box after instigating a fight with Luke Schenn (in retaliation for Dion Phaneuf‘s big hit on Stephane Da Costa). I have to give Da Costa credit for recovering from the hit and scoring a nice goal. Nick Foligno finished -3 and was invisible, while Nikita Filatov struggled and was bumped off the top line–but they were not the only players who struggled. Ottawa’s veterans played a lot in the third period.
I did not see the Binghamton game, so for the game story check out Joy Lindsay’s summary is (link) and the boxscore (link). Kaspars Daugavins and Eric Gryba scored, while Andre Petersson earned his first point for Binghamton. Mike McKenna got the call in net.
Here are some of Kurt Kleinendorst’s comments afterward (link), “the second period, obviously, I don’t know what they had for shots exactly, but I can count mine on one finger. That’s not going to cut it. We started turning pucks over in the grey zone — which is the blue line. And then we end up in our end, because of that. We start taking penalties, because of that. And that just gave them life. The first goal was kind of the one that just got them going. And then, in the third, we were fine again. So we got two out of three periods tonight. But you’ve got to play three. You’ve got to play 60 minutes.” He’s liked Andre Petersson, David Dziurzynski, Pat Cannone in both games thus far.
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