Two ways to look at the Ottawa Senators. One, they’re just going to have to be patient as their young players learn to understand what it takes to win. Two, they are under- performing and need either a coaching change, or a significant lineup change.
It’s also possible that Ottawa and those around the team have vastly overrated the young talent the team has.
-Damien Cox via X.
from Wayne Scanlan of Sportsnet,
Oh, to be a fly on the wall for the ongoing conversations between Steve Staios and Michael Andlauer.
Remember the joy in Mudville when they arrived, Andlauer as the ownership saviour and Staios soon after as the new director of hockey operations?
That was three months ago. Feels like three years. Or 300.
Perhaps they thought they were walking into a turnkey operation. Turn the key and Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stützle and Claude Giroux would lead this team to its first playoff berth since 2017. Oh sure, there would be veteran pieces to add in the years ahead, deadline type stuff, to make this team a legitimate contender and not just a playoff qualifier.
But this? No one expected this.
It could be that the new management has been shocked into paralysis. Frozen in inertia.
Somehow this promising club they inherited has lost four straight games and is four games under .500, buried in the Atlantic Division basement, despite a cushy early schedule that was supposed to allow them to put points in the bank.
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