Senator Ottawa, one of the league's most easily forgotten (click NHL 18 Coins) teams, is the only team in the 16-year playoffs in the Stanley Cup playoffs, which is the only one in the regular season. With the arrival of the new head coach, Gay - Boucher, the senators set up a more focused defense, and after the first two races, the senators knocked out the Boston Brown Bear and the New York Rangers in six games, But also let people have to want to re-understand this has been ignored for a long time they have the team.
As we revisit the difficult course of Ottawa senators, we have to mention the other voices that question the team. There are a lot of people think that today's senators can break into the final Eastern Conference finals is entirely by the luck and not their superb skills, and even TSN's famous ice hockey program host said "
The first round of the face of the Boston Brown Bear series before the game, in view of the brown bear in the regular season when the performance was too dazzling, people naturally think that the Senate will not have too much advantage, and the playoff experience relatively rich brown bear Most likely to be the team that can finally stand out.
After six games, the strongest attacking team of the Bears team Brad - Marche, Patrice - Bergeron and David - Pastnak scored 12 points, although the three of them were not present On the "disappear", but it is undeniable that they did not play out the high level.
According to the data after the game, the number of seats on both sides of the field is equal, the number of senators shot 292, slightly higher than the brown bear 288 times, although this data is not enough to explain how much the senator to occupy, but also Gave a strong blow to the critics who predicted the pre-race, proving that the senator was not just a defensive team. In addition, the Senator's performance is stronger than the brown bear, both in terms of both less and less resistance, and this key factor will undoubtedly play a very important role in their ultimate victory over the brown bear.
The second round of the face of New York Rangers, the Rangers attack the striker also brought to the Senate as much as the face of the brown bear when the trouble, compared to the two regular season data, the Senator only in the scoring rate As well as the average scoring rate is slightly dominant, and the other goalkeeper Henrik - Lanquist in the first round of the face of the Montreal Canadians in the series with excellent performance and stability to prove that he is still a ranger The most solid and reliable goalkeeper, this way, from the paper on the Senator's advantage is not obvious.
But the Senate in the second round of the series encountered the challenge is not just a play is still outstanding Lanquist, how to resist the swords in the league's one of the most threatening offensive striker became their first To face the problem. To tell the ranger in the offensive end can give opponents trouble in the end how much, we may wish to use the numbers to speak, the regular season, the Rangers team 4 people score more than 50 points, 7 scoring over 40 points, 11 People score over 30 points. Although the Senator in the second round on the defensive and did not limit the front of the Rangers, but they can successfully break the door of the defense of Lanquist, 6 games in the Senate a total of 19 goals , Which is a defensive-oriented, conservative defensive team is not easy.
In addition, the senator has three times in the third quarter of the last few minutes into the winning goal and equalizer goals, the arrival of these goals is greatly encouraged the morale of the team, the opposite rangers because of the waste A valuable leading opportunity for them to eventually miss the Western Conference finals. After two rounds of competition, we really can not really just think the senator is only luck to win the game.
In addition, if you look at this year's senator in the playoffs or in the regular season concerned about the team, then your captain Eric - Carlson's impression is also very deep. As a defender, from the start of the season to the current playoffs, Carlsson's outstanding performance and the achievements of the league is definitely a lot of defender are discouraged, unable to match. He played 13 points in 12 games in the playoffs and is currently fifth in the playoff scoring, with 11 assists still making his second place behind Pittsburgh penguins - Margin (13 assists). Senator Carlson was undoubtedly a key factor in helping Senators to break into the Eastern Conference finals. In the last two races of the Rangers, Carlsson was dedicated to a 5-point performance, especially when the team was in a need to take a timely goal to help boost the morale of the team. Always in the most critical moment to come forward for the team to provide the most timely help. But do not forget that, due to injuries plagued, now in the field of Carlsson is not that state to play to 100 percent of the Carlson.
Ottawa Senator Another key factor in winning is that they have played from the regular season to the playoffs have been excellent goalkeeper Craig - Anderson. Mid-season, Anderson in order to take care of his sick wife and missed the past two months of the game, but now back to the game he still has a stable and excellent play, the regular season 92.6% of the fighting rate and averaging number 2.28 Also let him be ranked in the league goalkeeper third and tenth.
The first two rounds of the New York Rangers and the Boston Brown Bear series, the other side of the main goalkeeper Henrik - Lanquist and Tuka - Lasker's reputation will undoubtedly overshadowed Senator Anderson, which also makes Anderson was Once again ignored the playoffs 91.4% of the fighting rate although quite satisfactory, but we can see, the game Anderson a field of struggling to fight the final effective help to help the senator against the opponent wave after wave of attack The
And today the Senate away victory over the powerful penguins, I believe fans have now realized that this all the way through, has eliminated the brown bear and rangers team can break into the Eastern Conference final with no luck, and we are Time to re-understand this Ottawa senator, and not hesitate to give them more applause and attention.