Go Sens Go!

[Obiwan]

Jacque Martin is not a bad coach, but he just couldn't bring the Sens to the next level. By replacing him is doing both a favour.

 

[Biochemistry]

最初由 lifeisfun 发布



Well, Lalime is the one to be blamed. But on the other side ,why Alfie, Hossa, White, Chara, couldn't score, that's another reason for Sens loss. I don't blame the players but I feel that coach should take the responsibility. Leafs take few chances to score and in the defence, they just outnumber Sens and give Sens no chances. Overshoot in this situation will only get things worse, as you tried more, and couldn't get a goal, the more frustrated you will be. Sens did exactly that, a still young team.

well, the only reason the Sens team didn't do good was because of the early two cheap goals, period!
the Sens came out hard from the beginning, and even after the first goal, they played like they can turn this game over. and image what would you feel if you were in that situation: you battled hard but your goalie gave up two cheap goals?
look back at how the Avs lost big to the Red Wings last year at game 7, it was because Roy gave up cheap goals and the entire Avs team just crushed. and if you talk about experiences, passion for the Cup, the number of canadian players and the coaching, should the Avs be better than the Sens? and now you think the Sens team AND THE COACH should take responsibilities??

 

[heckler]

最初由 heckler 发布
Here is the winning strategy for:

To do against Leafs:
- checking hard on Joe Nieuwendyk, he is only 2 bumps away for retiring for the season;

Nobody kept bull's eye on him and let him scored eventually winning goals;

最初由 heckler 发布
- blocking hard on Gary Roberts, don't let his body pass even the puck slips through;[/B]

Chara did pretty good job

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- banning hard on Tie Domi, better on his face ;[/B]

It's a big failure to let Domi sparked the first goal

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- intercepting Brian Leetch and Bryan McCabe, this pair did a lot damages to the opponents;[/B]

What to say? McCabe scored the 4th one for leafs

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- blinding Belfour and always preparing to make continous shots on him 3 or 4 times. He is not a talented goalie at all. What he did against Sens was totally ridiculous;[/B]

Sens totally failed on this one

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- special babysitting for Milgony and Sudin ;[/B]

N/A

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To do for Sens self:
- playing Antoine Vermette rather than Jason Spezza. He seems more effective than Jason when playing Leafs;[/B]

They did.

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- putting more defense in the middle where mostly Leafs break through;[/B]

It's OK. But Joe N. scored twice from left hand side.

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- interfereing Leafs' set-up in penalty killing instead of waiting in front of the goal;[/B]

They did decent job in pentaly killing

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- Using Hossa and Havlet's speed to make Leafs's defense worry about their back court;[/B]

It didn't work very well. They are not tough enough to face the determined leafs' defencemen

最初由 heckler 发布
I am sure a lot more can be added. But Sens will win game 7 if they can execute 70% of my strategies . Well, Jacques must have known it very well now. It seems to me the execution of the plan is the key. [/B]

That's probably all Martin can do. He still has a lot of homework to do to figure out how to solve Leafs.

It's a logical result for Leafs to win because Sens only executed less than 50% of the winning strategy.

But I still shout loudly: GO SENS GO!!!

 

[Obiwan]

Don't forget SENS has been shut out three time in this series. Players, goalie, and coach are tied together, everyone is responsible for the lost.

 

[Biochemistry]

最初由 Obiwan 发布
Jacque Martin is not a bad coach, but he just couldn't bring the Sens to the next level. By replacing him is doing both a favour.

like i said, last year, the Avs lost big (5 or 6) to the Red Wings at game 7, and it's because Roy gave up cheap goals. so you think the Avs coach should be changed after that game?
in a game like this, it is very important that the goalie can make curcial saves and not to give up cheap goals. i assume you watched a lot of playoff hockey, i mean not only the Sens games, so i think you should know what i am talking about.

 

[Biochemistry]

最初由 Obiwan 发布
Don't forget SENS has been shut out three time in this series. Players, goalie, and coach are tied together, everyone is responsible for the lost.

man, we are talking about this game, specifically, game 7. yes, they were shut out 3 times but they did beat the leafs three times and that's why there was a game 7.
i might sound emotional but hey, i myself is a player and i know what the mistakes by lalime could do to a team. you know what, a team like the Sens probably want to win the playoff games more than any other team, and at this point, the least thing you want to happen is the unnecessary trouble at your own zone.

 

[Obiwan]

最初由 Biochemistry 发布


like i said, last year, the Avs lost big (5 or 6) to the Red Wings at game 7, and it's because Roy gave up cheap goals. so you think the Avs coach should be changed after that game?
in a game like this, it is very important that the goalie can make curcial saves and not to give up cheap goals. i assume you watched a lot of playoff hockey, i mean not only the Sens games, so i think you should know what i am talking about.

There are seven games in the series. If SENS could execute coach's game plan well and coach can be more creative on how to be effective on powerplay, SENS may not need to go to the 7th game.

I am not denying the bad goals by Lalime tonight, but others has to pick up their slacks as well.

 

[Biochemistry]

最初由 Obiwan 发布


There are seven games in the series. If SENS could execute coach's game plan well and coach can be more creative on how to be effective on powerplay, SENS may not need to go to the 7th game.

I am not denying the bad goals by Lalime tonight, but others has to pick up their slacks as well.

the problems you mentioned might exist but i think they are common to all teams. by saying this i mean, if there is a team who can do what the coach wants them to do, they can win the Cup hands down. more specifically, if the leafs can do what the coach siad, they could have sweeped the Sens. so those common mistakes balanced out. and tonight, the determining reason was the goalie.
i hope you still remember how the Sens won the series in 5 games against the flyers two years ago, nobody, including some Sens fans, thought the Sens can win that series. but they did, why? because Lalime was so good and he shut out the flyers. i am just saying that in playoff, a goalie is probably the most important part among all others. and lalime showed this clearly.

 

[seniorguy]

LAILIME最大的问题是不稳定，他前6场可以说表现了较高的水平，今晚却一塌糊涂，他今天那种表现，NHL没有一个队能赢一场PLAY OFF。
他表现好的时候当然很好，象去年对FLYER。但他和BRODER一比，立刻现原形。可以说SENATORS去年有BRODER的话，冠军就可能拿下来了。一个好的门将象BORDER，BELFOUR，你说人家有多好也不一定，反正你要进球得拿点真工夫出来，人家是不会随便就放你进球，这样全队信心就足多了。

HOSSA已经是NHL最好的球星之一，SUPER MARIO就感叹过买不起HOSSA这样的队员。

最初由 Biochemistry 发布


the problems you mentioned might exist but i think they are common to all teams. by saying this i mean, if there is a team who can do what the coach wants them to do, they can win the Cup hands down. more specifically, if the leafs can do what the coach siad, they could have sweeped the Sens. so those common mistakes balanced out. and tonight, the determining reason was the goalie.
i hope you still remember how the Sens won the series in 5 games against the flyers two years ago, nobody, including some Sens fans, thought the Sens can win that series. but they did, why? because Lalime was so good and he shut out the flyers. i am just saying that in playoff, a goalie is probably the most important part among all others. and lalime showed this clearly.

 

[jackywyy]

Lalime is a fag!

 

[lifeisfun]

最初由 Biochemistry 发布


hockey is a team sport so you don't need to have the best players to win the Cup. otherthan the goalies, i mean two of them, the Senators is good enough to wint the Cup. they lost to New Jersey for the same reason, the goalie. in playoff time, the goalie is important because he can affect the confidence of the entire team. but Lalime can only reduce the confidence of other players by giving cheap goals.

1993, the canadiens didn't have a good team, not as good as this Senators team, but they won the Cup, why? because of Patrick Roy. The Senators have been in the playoff for 6 years out of 11 years of the franchise, you think they don't have experiences?

i hope the flyers sweep the leafs. a team like the leafs won't be even in the playoff if they don't have Belfour.

I don't really agree with you, What you do mean by the good team? We always judge a good team in the regular season and think Sens is a good team as they play well in the regular. For those teams who don't play well in the regular season, you think they are not good. But maybe you are wrong, as for those teams like Canadian, who has the determination and the potential. If you think Sens is a good team, why it couldn't pass Leafs 4 times in a roll. Last year they were lucky just bacause flyer helped them solving the leafs, otherwise, I doubt. A good team is a team that perform stable, outpeform others in the critical games. Maybe we should divide the teams in NHL into two group, ones are good in regular, and others are for the cup.

 

[lifeisfun]

最初由 Biochemistry 发布


they need to change the goalie, not the coach. at least Martin doesn't bitch about everything, like pat did after every game.

I would rather See Martin to bitch others after the game or even during the game. Martin has no emotion in his face all the time, no wonder his players don't have the passion too. Pat like his team, can do what he thinks.

 

[lifeisfun]

最初由 Biochemistry 发布


like i said, last year, the Avs lost big (5 or 6) to the Red Wings at game 7, and it's because Roy gave up cheap goals. so you think the Avs coach should be changed after that game?
in a game like this, it is very important that the goalie can make curcial saves and not to give up cheap goals. i assume you watched a lot of playoff hockey, i mean not only the Sens games, so i think you should know what i am talking about.

But even Lalime let two easy goal in the last game and is the first one to be blamed, why Sens couldn't score first in all seven games and score more goals in the games. Remember they were shut out by leafs three times in this series. There is no good pass in front of leafs goal, they only know to shoot around the blue lines. There are more leafs in the defence when they attack. Sens are controled by leafs in front of goals. Sens only know to dump the buck and chase it. All this is because of the strategy and game plan and it's the coach to make this happen.

Martin is a good coach, but he can only bring this team to this level. He should go to coach a team with more self-motivated players, but not this one, who don't know to play a downturn game.

Why Calgary can catch back in game 6 from 4:0 deficit to tie the game (even though they lost finally in that game in OT), but Sens couldn't do it even their goalie betray them. No clear plan and no passion, I should say.

 

[heckler]

I guess most of you would agree that the goaltending is the key in the playoff. Looking back to those cup winners, none of them didn't have a great goalie. Belfour, Hasek, Roy, Brodeur and the list goes on and on. But of Sens, I think it could be an exception. Sens could still have touched the cup with a mediocre goaltender simply because its superior offence power. Sens scored the most goals in the regular season among all the NHL teams. But when playoff kicked off, they got shut-out 3 times and the goaltender sometimes even performed worse than AHL player. What's the problem with them? I believe it's the mentality issue. From the coach to the player, they don't have that kind of mindset as Leafs do. This directly translated into soft play in the games. What's the solution? It has to be a big sugery to the team. Martin has fulfilled his mission here, he has brought the Sens to today's height and won't be able to make it any better. Lalime should be gone as well as some core players. This club needs more fighting spirit than skills right now.

So far I love Calgary the most in this season. Just look at what they did to Canucks. Each game looked more like a war than a hockey game. They skated like crazy and made shots like frenetic. That's how they created the winning opporttunities. The most classic game was their game 6 when Flames came back from 0:4 defecit and tied up at 4:4. What a buch of worriors.

Well, any one likes to predict the finalists of this year? I, althogh I hate to say so, personally believe Leafs have the best chance to win the Esatern Conference, while the Western one will be won by either Avalance or Red Wings.

 

[lifeisfun]

最初由 heckler 发布
I guess most of you would agree that the goaltending is the key in the playoff. Looking back to those cup winners, none of them didn't have a great goalie. Belfour, Hasek, Roy, Brodeur and the list goes on and on. But of Sens, I think it could be an exception. Sens could still have touched the cup with a mediocre goaltender simply because its superior offence power. Sens scored the most goals in the regular season among all the NHL teams. But when playoff kicked off, they got shut-out 3 times and the goaltender sometimes even performed worse than AHL player. What's the problem with them? I believe it's the mentality issue. From the coach to the player, they don't have that kind of mindset as Leafs do. This directly translated into soft play in the games. What's the solution? It has to be a big sugery to the team. Martin has fulfilled his mission here, he has brought the Sens to today's height and won't be able to make it any better. Lalime should be gone as well as some core players. This club needs more fighting spirit than skills right now.

So far I love Calgary the most in this season. Just look at what they did to Canucks. Each game looked more like a war than a hockey game. They skated like crazy and made shots like frenetic. That's how they created the winning opporttunities. The most classic game was their game 6 when Flames came back from 0:4 defecit and tied up at 4:4. What a buch of worriors.

Well, any one likes to predict the finalists of this year? I, althogh I hate to say so, personally believe Leafs have the best chance to win the Esatern Conference, while the Western one will be won by either Avalance or Red Wings.

I feel that Wed Wing will meet flyer in the final and Red Wing will take the cup again.