The Ottawa Senators hit the reset button on Sunday, meeting as a team to go over their Game 1 loss to Carolina on Saturday afternoon. Ottawa was shut out for just the second time all season in an extremely physical 2-0 loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know it\u2019s going to be a really tight series,\u201d Tim St\u00fctzle told the media. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find a way to put one in the back of the net.\u201d<\/p>\n
St\u00fctzle said that he wasn\u2019t happy with his first two periods and felt he could do more to help the team generate offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeaking about myself, I think especially in the first two periods we were kind of throwing too many pucks to the net and not really holding onto it, not really creating a lot of possession time, and that\u2019s my game. I\u2019ve got to hold onto pucks, make those little plays, and that\u2019s when I\u2019m at my best,\u201d said St\u00fctzle, who led the Senators with 34 goals and 83 points in the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think especially in the third, I think we created way more. Obviously in the third, the power play was really good there, the first two [periods] it was awful, so just kind of finding a way of getting through the series. I think we\u2019ve got a lot more to give.\u201d<\/p>\n
Travis Green said there was no further update on Artem Zub, who left the game early in the third period after delivering a solid hit on Seth Jarvis. Zub played only 7:44 before leaving, forcing the Senators to finish the game with five defenders.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought our passing wasn\u2019t as crisp, but I think both teams do a good job of rushing the pass,\u201d said Green. \u201cWith Zubby out of the lineup, that probably changed a little bit of the dynamic, but both teams are good on the forecheck. It\u2019s not going to be pretty all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, that\u2019s a big loss when he goes out,\u201d added Green. \u201cSomeone\u2019s got to step up and play those minutes against top lines, and [assistant coach Nolan Baumgartner\u2019s] got to juggle the D, but I thought they did a pretty good job back there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSeems like it\u2019s the theme of our season,\u201d said Thomas Chabot about the injury. Chabot logged 26:39 of time on ice in the loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s that time of the year. It\u2019s playoffs, you\u2019re going to need every single guy. But at the same time, if you\u2019re going to miss some guys, then the other ones that are on the ice have to step up and fill in and do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zub was the only player that left the physical affair, but with the Hurricanes throwing 57 hits \u2014 almost triple their average of 20 from the regular season \u2014 everyone was feeling it.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year was the same thing from Toronto, obviously a bit more last night\u2026 we knew that was coming,\u201d said Chabot.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I thought we did a good job. Until what, the first 10 minutes of the game, I don\u2019t think we allowed a shot. We knew the physicality was going to be there, it\u2019s playoff hockey and everybody expected it. And you know what? They\u2019re going to try and do the same thing tomorrow night and we\u2019re going to be ready for it once again.\u201d<\/p>\n
St\u00fctzle said the Senators, who logged 39 hits, could do more to put similar pressure on the Canes. \u201cI think our forecheck, it was tough for us, especially forwards, to get hits, really,\u201d said St\u00fctzle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were kind of a little disconnected maybe, and that\u2019s where we couldn\u2019t really get on the forecheck, and the dumps weren\u2019t good enough. Their goalie played a lot of pucks, so we\u2019ve got to find a way to make it a little harder on them and get to our forecheck game, because I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re really good at, and we didn\u2019t really do that enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Senators will look to bounce back and even the series on Monday at 7:30. Chabot said that he had \u201c100 per cent confidence\u201d in the group to have a better showing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hold each other accountable and we know that there\u2019s a lot of guys in this room that want to do better and play better, and we\u2019re going to bring it tomorrow,\u201d said Chabot.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we know, like I said, it\u2019s a hell of a hockey team that [we\u2019re playing], they finished first for a reason, but I mean, at the end of the day, we know we can compete and balance with everybody, and that\u2019s what we want to show tomorrow night again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth teams are going to be persistent with their game, and there\u2019s going to be a lot of singles hit compared to home runs,\u201d said Green.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have a better game in us than we did last night, and you hope to improve from game to game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators hit the reset button on Sunday, meeting as a team to go over their Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-556244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116433122933791974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556244","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=556244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}