{"id":534721,"date":"2026-04-01T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:16:14","slug":"we-had-a-lot-of-players-who-werent-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534721\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We had a lot of players who weren\u2019t good enough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ottawa Senators<\/a> head coach Travis Green<\/a> was not happy with the effort his team put forward in a 6-3 loss to the Florida Panthers<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Senators allowed the opening goal just eight seconds into the loss and were down 5-0 when Linus Ullmark<\/a> was pulled in favour of James Reimer<\/a> with 5:24 still to play in the first period.<\/p>\n

The defeat cost the Senators a chance to jump back into the playoff picture. Entering play Wednesday, Ottawa sits two points back of the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> for the final wild-card spot with one game in hand. <\/p>\n

\u201cDisappointing. We talked about the importance of a good start in this building and that was the opposite,\u201d Green said postgame. \u201cWe just looked flat, didn\u2019t have a lot of energy. \u2026 We just weren\u2019t good enough tonight. Flat out, we had a lot of players who weren\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Panthers scored the fastest goal in their franchise history when Senators defenceman Jordan Spence<\/a> and Ullmark had a miscommunication as the puck was dumped into their end, allowing Noah Gregor<\/a> to jump on the loose puck and score.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust weren\u2019t ready to play at the beginning. Myself included,\u201d said Spence. \u201cIt\u2019s tough. It\u2019s hard to crawl back when they score two quick goals like that. We\u2019ve got learn from it, move past it, and focus on the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ullmark gives up five goals in the first period as Sens playoff push takes another hit Linus Ullmark gave up five goals on 16 shots as the Senators drop their third-straight game in an ugly 6-3 loss to the Panthers Tuesday night. TSN’s Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado joins Lindsay Hamilton to breakdown what went wrong for Ullmark and the Senators. <\/p>\n

Sitting second last in the Eastern Conference, the back-to-back champion Panthers had little to play for Tuesday as the team closes on being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. <\/p>\n

\u201cOttawa is fighting for their lives and I think we were more afraid of them than they would be of us. And rightfully so,\u201d Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. \u201cSome good things happened. We got on the power play. It has had chances \u2026 but nothing is going for it. Then a couple go and now, you have the juice, the energy, the home crowd. We haven\u2019t had a lot of fun nights in the last month, so it just lights the bench up. You\u2019re playing for that good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

A difficult schedule awaits the Senators as the team looks to push their way into the playoffs over the next two weeks. Ottawa will host the Atlantic Division-leading Buffalo Sabres<\/a> Thursday in the first of four straight games against teams currently sitting in playoff spots. After the Sabres, a back-to-back set against the Minnesota Wild<\/a> and Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> awaits over the weekend. <\/p>\n

The Boston Bruins<\/a> are moving out of reach, now sitting eight points ahead of the Senators for the top wild-card spot, leaving the Senators to battle with Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings<\/a> (tied with Ottawa at 86 points), Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> (86 points), and Washington Capitals<\/a>\u00a0(85 points) for the final wild-card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators head coach Travis Green was not happy with the effort his team put forward in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[4759,5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-534721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-ottawa","12":"tag-ottawa-senators","13":"tag-ottawasenators","14":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116329642992729640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}