Tonight was simple. The Senators made more mistakes than Montreal did, and that's why they lost. Oh and lets not overlook the fact that Montreal looked like they wanted the win more too, although only barely.Scoring on 67% of your second period shots is an awesome stat, until you notice that they only scored twice. That's going to hurt Elliot's save percentage somewhat, even if he was the best Senator on the ice tonight.
But all over the ice there was a great steaming pile of mediocrity. There just doesn't seem to be any speed anywhere on the team any more. Even (especially?) Alfredsson looked slow. And there was poor discipline which is drawing too many penalties.
Unless something magically turns around soon, this could have "long year" stamped all over it.
Wouldn't it be nice to have something like a nice, soft, goaltending controversy instead?
I still don't think things are as bad as the record -- or even tonight's effort -- makes the team look. There are bright spots here and there.
