Are the Sens fans at stage 4 yet?
- Feeling Glucky?

Lot if summer talk from a team not in the playoffs at the midway point of the year......

Sens now out of the playoffs. Don't worry, December is only 11 months away.
- systemtool

If you remember, I kinda called out the Sens yesterday, on their inability to beat a team below them in the standings (leafs), right after a winning a couple of games against teams above them in the standings (Edmonton & Pittsburgh).

Ottawa controlled the puck and the play for most of the game, and the leafs were good on capitalizing on the Sens mistakes, and after they went up by two goals in the third, the game was over, and Ottawa is now 0-8-0 in games when behind by two goals in the third.



http://www.naturalstattri...eason=20162017&game=20643

Leafs have comfortably slipped into last place in the Atlantic Division and Tweedledee and Tweedledumb are still fascinated by the impending rush they are about to make to the head of the class.

Problem with scoreboards is that they measure outcomes. The statistics that really matter suggest that the premature celebration among blue and white kool aid drinkers has been somewhat misguided. We are only a few days away from Christmas and it appears that the Leafs have successfully positioned themselves to compete for another top draft pick.

Overall, I love the Shanaplan. We all know it was 10 years too late. But for the premature speculators it is still a few years away from producing fruit.
- spatso

HI. Good game.

If you remember, I kinda called out the Sens yesterday, on their inability to beat a team below them in the standings (leafs), right after a winning a couple of games against teams above them in the standings (Edmonton & Pittsburgh).

Ottawa controlled the puck and the play for most of the game, and the leafs were good on capitalizing on the Sens mistakes, and after they went up by two goals in the third, the game was over, and Ottawa is now 0-8-0 in games when behind by two goals in the third.



http://www.naturalstattri...eason=20162017&game=20643
- D0PPELGANGER

Leafs didn't seem their usual self last night. I'm not sure if it was fatigue or simply that Ottawa needed the win more and came out guns blazing. It was a rare night where toronto got outplayed and won. Good game though.

Sorry, but Leaf fans have taken today off in order to prepare for their normal December announcement on missing the playoffs again.
- spatso

Oh...I'll come back tomorrow then.

I think the realization that matthews will be lighting up the sens for the next 15 years is starting to set in with spatso.

It's been YEARS since an organization has brought up this many great rookies at one time. The Leafs have the best young talent in the entire NHL.

It's been YEARS since an organization has brought up this many great rookies at one time. The Leafs have the best young talent in the entire NHL.
- RogerRoeper

Leafs are 1, 3, 4 and 10 in rookie scoring.

Good to see the team's success is a large part due to the rookies.

If you remember, I kinda called out the Sens yesterday, on their inability to beat a team below them in the standings (leafs), right after a winning a couple of games against teams above them in the standings (Edmonton & Pittsburgh).

Ottawa controlled the puck and the play for most of the game, and the leafs were good on capitalizing on the Sens mistakes, and after they went up by two goals in the third, the game was over, and Ottawa is now 0-8-0 in games when behind by two goals in the third.



http://www.naturalstattri...eason=20162017&game=20643
- D0PPELGANGER

FYI the Leafs are above the Sens in the standings.

In other news, ghost benched again and flyers lose again. Premature predictions of the metro having 2 WC spots looking bad.


All is not well. This and the philly fat tax will probably be driving our flyer friends crazy.

Ghost is just not good. If you need to shelter him that much and he's that bad defensively, he better score like last season.

With his size and shot Laine is in a class by himself.

Did anybody else think the Leafs were going to figure out a way to screw this up?
- spatso

Interesting.

I would not think so. In head to head comparisons on the Calder race I have not seen any panel name anyone other than Laine as the likely winner. And, really important, that includes the Toronto centric broadcasters at TSN and at Sportsnet. Some of the Leaf fans here are starting to make out like the Buffalo fans of last year trying to insist that Eichal was proving out to be the better choice over McDavid.
- spatso

Oh. I see.

Duh! Give your head a shake. Leafs are in 13th place.

Scoreboard and standings matter.

By Christmas (every year) the standings will tell us the top 12 teams in the NHL that will make the playoffs and the 10 that will fight for the last 4 spots. The Leafs will have done "better than I thought" if they put themselves in the group of 10 fighting for a post season berth. I did expect that they would be in the group of 8 speculating on the best picks in the upcoming amateur draft.
- spatso

Brilliant.

Spatso been deleting old posts of his.

Like this:

Tehee!

You just make this way too easy. The Leafs are 13th in the conference and 25th overall. They are farther away from the Sens (7 pts) than the the last place Avalanche (6 its).
- spatso


Sadly he's too stupid to realise you can't delete the quote part when someone responds to it.

In other news, ghost benched again and flyers lose again. Premature predictions of the metro having 2 WC spots looking bad.


All is not well. This and the philly fat tax will probably be driving our flyer friends crazy.
- Tumbleweed

Don't they have like 8000 games played more than Toronto at this point in the season?

Ottawa Senators, 9th best record in the NHL at .615
toronto maple leafs, 19th best record in the NHL at .521
- D0PPELGANGER

What ever happened to the good old days

You don't get quality updates like this anymore. Damn kids these days.

Spatso been deleting old posts of his.

Like this:

Tehee!

You just make this way too easy. The Leafs are 13th in the conference and 25th overall. They are farther away from the Sens (7 pts) than the the last place Avalanche (6 its).
- spatso


Sadly he's too stupid to realise you can't delete the quote part when someone responds to it.
- systemtool

Oops

Spatso been deleting old posts of his.

Like this:

Tehee!

You just make this way too easy. The Leafs are 13th in the conference and 25th overall. They are farther away from the Sens (7 pts) than the the last place Avalanche (6 its).
- spatso


Sadly he's too stupid to realise you can't delete the quote part when someone responds to it.
- systemtool

He's rattled

Suppose we won't hear much from the koolaid gang. Not a good week for the blue and white. They are doing the anticipated December collapse and sinking in the standings and it is just started to resonate in for some of the fans.
- spatso

Oh Spatso. The irony must be killing you..

I guess some of you blue and white gobpoopes are having a bad hair day based on the sinking feeling in your stomach
- spatso

Just....just.....

Just....just.....
- systemtool

Only leaf fans acting foolish and childish though

Sens just finished the toughest part of their season schedule. They visited Pittsburg and followed directly with a swing through the California teams. Yet, they made it through the past 10 games playing .500 hockey. They are still solidly in second place with a game in hand over Boston.

It is kind of humbling to see Leaf fans cheering against other teams and other players (Laine). I guess you have to go where others don't if you have spent a life time wondering about what it means to be an actual playoff contender.

Sens playing solid hockey in front of back up goaltender. Like what I see. Boucher seems confident that they will be a lot stronger in the second half. We will see.
- spatso

Yikes.

Duh! It is Christmas and they are solidly in second place. Perhaps you should give your head a shake and check a calendar. The Sens are 4-4-2 in their last 10 which included the California trip. Most Sens fans are okay with where they are at this time.

Defense, led by Karlsson, had a very strong night last night.
- spatso

Check the Calender lately?

sens win again
- spatso

Oh...