Breaking Through!! A Ottawa Senators Be a GM

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Up and Down month for the Senators

Ottawa could never seem to get a good roll going all month. Winning a couple in a row and then following that up with losing a couple in a row. They finished the month with a 8-5-1 December. Ottawa had its first three game losing streak of the season as they lost to the sharks (7-5), Lightning (4-1), and panthers (6-3).

Ottawa did manage to end the month on a nice three game winning streak with two wins against boston in which they outscored them 7-2. Senators also ended the month with the most goals scored by a team in a game all year. Senators defeated the Devils by a score of 9-3. A game in which we seen Karlsson find the back of the net 4 times and push his season total to 16 goals (36 points total).

Turris 38Pts. (16G 22A)
Karlsson 36pts (16G 20A)
Semin 31pts (15G 16A)
Zibanejad 30 (11G 19A)

Craig Anderson 15 W 9L .911S% 2.690GAA

The Senators sit just two points behind the lightning for first place in the division, the conference, and the league.

Race for Presidents Trophy standings
Predators 50pts
Lightning 50pts
Stars 49pts
Kings 48pts
Senators 48pts
Blues 48pts
Canadians 48pts
Blackhawks 47pts

January sees Ottawa open the month with the Blackhawks followed up the next night with the Blues (Both teams withing 3 points of leading the league in pts). Senators will be going into the games without there center Zibanejad as he fractured his jaw in the win against the Devils. Still know word on whether Stone plays anymore this season.

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Can the Senators Win their Second Presidents Trophy In franchise History

In what was a huge month for the Senators going 9-3-0 they got two big wins against two top 7 teams in the NHL.

The Senators started the month off with the Blackhawks. Down by one with only 35 seconds left in the third Ottawa pulls there goalie to get the extra attacker. With 4 sec left Karlsson swings a pass to Smith who puts it in the back of the net to tie the game up. Neil would put in the game winner in overtime to get the Senators off to a could start of the month. Before those two goals Smith and Neil had a combined 12 goals on the month so for them to score there was completely out of the blue.

Senators would go on to go 3-2 before they got the biggest news of season so fair. The return of Mark Stones. It must have triggered Kill mode in the Senators as they got a goal and an assist from stone and Bobby Ryan gets a hat trick in a 5-3 win over the kings.

Since stones return the Senators finished the month 5-1 winning there last 4 games.

So what does the Race for the best team in the League look like

Kings 67pts
Predators 67pts
Lightning 66pts
Senators 66pts
Avalanche 63pts
Blackhawks 63pts
Red Wings 62pts

Kyle Turris 44pts (17G 27A)
Erik Karlsson 43pts (22G 21A)
Bobby Ryan 43pts (16G 27A)
Mike Hoffman 42pts (11G 31A)
Alexander Semin 37 pts (18G 19A)

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Big February for Senators and even Bigger Trade

The Senators all but should the NHL that they are the team to beat as the team went 11-2 and outscored there opponents 48 goals scored to 16 goals against. There was a stretch in the middle of the month where for one week they had three shutouts in wins over Buffalo, Carolina, and Detroit. Detroit and Howard's hell season came to an end this month as Detroit was shut out twice to Ottawa and pushed there goal differential against Ottawa to -17 (Ottawa 21Goals- Detroit 4) in the five meetings they had in the regular season.

BIG Trade a week before the deadline sends Ottawa Zdeno Chara for disgruntled Mark Fraser, Unsigned Center Chlapik, and two future picks.

A number pairing of offensive D-man Karlsson and Chara is going to wreak havoc on the league.

If that wasn't enough to bolster there defense the team made one more deal on the day of the deadline after getting word that Wiercioch suffered a head injury in there last game.

Mark Stone was excited when he got the call from older brother Michael had been traded from Arizona to Ottawa to add depth there defense. Phillips was upset after the Chare deal knocked him out of the top 6 and he was scratched.

Weber had this to say about the Phillips trade, "I can see why he was angry but the way he was playing we needed to make a move to improve our defensive lines and at his age he wasn't going to dress anymore without an injury to one of our regulars. When he came at me with an attitude I knew it was time to make a move because I didn't want him becoming a cancer in the locker room. So I looked at Arizona and they had the player I was looking at all season in Stone."

The full trade was
Ottawa gets: Stone and grinder Boyd Gordon (depth purposes)
Arizona gets: Phillips, Englund and 2 future 6th round picks

The Race for the presidents cup looks to be a race from only 4 teams now

Senators 88pts 42-17-4
Kings 85pts 40-17-5
Lightning 84pts 40-18-4
Flyers 82pts 37-17-8

Hoffman took the lead on the team in points on the year with 57 (12 G 45A)
Karlsson 56pts (25G 31A) Leads team in goals
Ryan 54 pts (22G 32A)
Turris 54 pts (22G 32A)
Zibanejad 52 pts (22G 30A)
Semin 46 pts (23G 23A)

Anderson has a 27-14 record .919S% and 2.340GAA


March opens with a tough two weeks as they host St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Dallas and Toronto and play road games in Toronto, Carolina, and Florida
(No particular order after St. Louis and Tampa Bay.)

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The trade for Chara was more cuz Boston was doing terrible and he is my favorite player in real life. At an 88 overall he can still make a huge impact on the game


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Quote: Originally Posted by Matty_Ice_125

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Isn't he like 40 though?

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Isn't he like 40 though?

38 and I believe he retires after the first year. The trade was mostly to get ride of Fraiser since he was pissed off and his overall dropped like 8 points. He was a cancer in the locker room and the picks are far enough into the future that they are meaning less at this point in time. But what I gained is a solid first line defender with an insane slap shot to play next to karlsson.


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Senators End Regular Season on the top of the League

The Chara trade worked out exactly how they wanted it too and gave Ottawa an almost unstoppable defense for teams to try to score on. It even made Karlsson even more dominate as his assists total shot up as he kept feeding the powerful Chara slap shot.

Turris lead the team with 80 points on the year but it was a balanced team as 7 players finished with over 50 points, 6 over 60, 3 players or 75 points. That scoring helped the Senators to the best offensive team in the league scoring 3.354GFPG first in the league. There defense was something to be feared of too as they first second only giving up one more goal then the flyers for fewest goals against and a 2.256 GAPG.

The team finished with a record of 56-19-7 for 119 points while the flyers were in second for the presidents trophy with 109 points (flyers finished 2nd in Goals scored and first in goals Against)

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Senators Not Looking Like Best Team In The League

After the first two games of the first round Ottawa mush now head to Florida down 2-0 in the series to the Panthers. The Panthers took it straight at the Sens with an extremely aggressive game plane that they were not ready for. Panther got 3 quick goals in the first period of game one with a straight on attack and being the more physical team. The game ended 3-1

"We played them 5 times in the regular season and they always kinda rolled over to us so we were not expecting this. Just goes to show us that in the playoffs you need to adapt and figure out what wasn't working during the season." Weber told Reporters after the game.

Game 2 was much of the same as the Panthers scored the only 2 goals of the game in the first 5 minutes of the game. Panthers then kinda just played not to lose as they were more conservative.

"We need to turn it around and be the aggressive ones in there home. We are getting out shot and out hit in every game. If we can't turn that around and play with more passion we should just quit right now." Said Weber.