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After a little hiatus over Christmas, everyone's favourite completely arbitrary review of the Senators' week that was has returned. This past week featured a pair of gutsy overtime wins, 3-2 over the Blues and 2-1 over the Bruins, alternated with two heartbreaking losses, 3-2 to the Panthers and 7-1 to the Capitals.
Biggest gains: Erik Karlsson
Karlsson is fantastic most of the time, but this week I think we saw another glimpse of just how great. He put up four points in four games, but also had 16 shots, the majority of even-strength shot attempts in all games but the one against the Capitals, nine blocked shots, and five hits. He's been on another level, even for himself recently.
Biggest losses: Alex Chiasson
The game against the Blues was his first healthy scratch since joining the Sens. He then proceeded to get scratched in the next two games. It'll be a race to see if he or Cowen find their way into more games down the stretch.
Goaltenders | Trend | Notes |
Craig Anderson | ![]() |
Great game against the Bruins, pretty awful game against the Panthers. I guess that balances things out. |
Andrew Hammond | ![]() |
Same story as Andy, except the great game was against the Blues and the awful one was against the Capitals. |
Defensemen | ||
Mark Borowiecki | ![]() |
Seems to be getting the Wiercioch treatment, in which his possession numbers get a big boost from playing with PW. |
Cody Ceci | ![]() |
Looked pretty good with PW, not as great with Methot |
Fredrik Claesson |
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He actually had a pretty good week, outside of two mistakes that led to goals against the Panthers. Not gonna down-vote his bad week just from that. |
Jared Cowen | ![]() |
May never play another game in a Sens uniform. |
Erik Karlsson | ![]() |
See Biggest Gains |
Marc Methot | ![]() |
Looks like a lot of solid play has a been because of playing with Karlsson |
Chris Phillips | ![]() |
Hi Chris! |
Chris Wideman |
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Set up the OT goal against St. Louis, but looks to be the odd man out with Ceci's return |
Patrick Wiercioch | ![]() |
Quite possibly Wiercioch's most solid week defensively of the season. |
Forwards | ||
Alex Chiasson | ![]() |
See Biggest Losses |
Mike Hoffman | ![]() |
Had two goals this week, but the normal possession driver seemed to be struggling this week |
Curtis Lazar | ![]() |
Had a pretty good week by the standard of I have no idea what to expect of the guy. |
Clarke MacArthur | ![]() |
Good news in that MacA actually skated this week. Without equipment or teammates, but still, that's good news. |
Max McCormick |
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Gets an up arrow for scoring his first NHL goal, and for looking like a decent fit on the Pageau line. |
Milan Michalek | ![]() |
Had two points in three games after returning from injury - that's good in my books |
Chris Neil | ![]() |
Has continued to not be a liability on the fourth line |
Jean-Gabriel Pageau | ![]() |
Had a pretty good week. I'm hoping McCormick-Lazar-Pageau can be a pretty good third line from here on out. |
Shane Prince |
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Greening-Smith-Neil was awful. Prince-Smith-Neil has been great. I think we can learn something from this. |
Bobby Ryan | ![]() |
Is it fair to give him an up arrow for having one game with three points and no points the rest of the week? I make the rules, so I say yes. Ottawa dodged a bullet in that he wasn't injured against the Bruins. |
Zack Smith | ![]() |
Back on the fourth line he's been great. Still not sure why he's on PP2, but win some, lose some |
Mark Stone | ![]() |
Two points, and some pretty dominant hockey from Ottawa's second-line RW (TM Bob Cole) |
Kyle Turris | ![]() |
He's so snake-bitten that he's lost his spot as Ottawa's most-trusted offensive centre. Seems like he's had about 10,000 chances though so something's bound to go in eventually |
Mika Zibanejad | ![]() |
Coach has put him on PP1 and as the first centre out in OT, which makes up for the poor possession numbers and lone point maybe. Ottawa dodged a bullet in that he wasn't injured against the Blues. |
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