I know that Vegas is a ridiculously good team and that the talent in this series is probably second to none, but I went back and re-watched every shot taken on Jones last night and boy were a good portion of them legitimate scoring opportunities. For the sake of whatever this is a blog?
The highlight package is here if you want a quick video reference on each:. How it happened: a simple neutral zone transition play. This is a breakaway goal ten seconds into the game with no counterattack opportunity. This is a laughable loss of defensive assignments and most of the lapse falls on the shoulders of Couture. Stone went right around Couture who tried, weakly, to poke check the puck away. This is a total defensive collapse. Yes, he could have stopped the puck.
Enough said. I once joked that the vintage Evander Kane game is a highlight reel goal, an unbelievable assist, some physical play, and at least two terrible minor penalties. Pacioretty is in a decent shooting spot just on top of the circle, but he does have a beautiful screen from Stastny. Pacioretty had so much time that Braun had to step up to challenge the shooter, which left Stastny by himself on the screen.
How it happened: Defensive zone breakdown, again. Also: San Jose was unintentionally a man down. At the time of the pass Meier really only had one option — a relatively wide open Karlsson ten feet in front of Jones.
I think Meier wanted to make a more conservative play than putting the puck in the middle of the ice, but there was no option available. He tried to flip the puck in the air and, lo and behold, Stone snagged that from the sky and immediately put San Jose in a bind. Logan Couture is halfway in the neutral zone when this turnover occurs, and Vegas has a huge numbers advantage.
Stastny scored on a great shot through a sea of bodies. How it happened: Joe Thornton takes a two-minute minor for an illegal check to the head it probably should have been a game , and Vegas runs the sequential passing game in the OZ. Logan Couture took another gamble and lost. Marc-Andre Fleury had made an unbelievable save on Evander Kane just moments earlier for this goal. What opened this play up was Couture losing his side of the ice, allowing for a clean OZ entry.
Couture scrambled to try and attack the puck carrier but was already a step late on him. Then, seeing the passing sequence being set up, tried to recover again and backcheck on Stastny. This one is painful to watch.
San Jose has the puck clean in their DZ. Stastny took the puck right off of the boards and immediately started the counter. Kane, in recovery mode, was a half step behind the trailing Stone. Stone receives the puck and dumps it off to Marchessault who is wide open.
In this one-second window, Kane somehow completely lost Stone or tried to pass him off to one of the defenders that seems unlikely, but whatever. Kane — finished up the sequence.
Jones owns some poor rebound control here but this is another collapse. Burns makes a bad play, then Kane, then Jones. This one sucked across the board. How it happened: San Jose, chasing the game at this point, tries a give-and-go play through the neutral. San Jose deserves a little more leeway here because they are trying to erase the deficit late but the give-and-go sequence failed and jump-started a Vegas counter. He tries to attack the puck carrier and fails.
That puts Stone and a trailing Pacioretty in tight on Jones, with Karlsson trying to take away the pass. Jones completely loses his net on this one. I suspect better goalies have a much better chance at stopping this shot, but we are still talking about weighted coin flips in a classic two-on-one scenario with a shooter in the crease.
All this to say: Jones is killing San Jose. This is a tremendously talented San Jose team that can out-score anyone. But you defend like this, there is just no chance of winning a Stanley Cup.
And just going through the six goals against, there are an awful lot of negative contributors here. He did not want to share additional information. A few weeks ago a hockey media friend made note of an odd Twitter account that had emerged in December of The account was created to yell at a fan for not understanding how an AHL paper transaction worked. The plan was to re-assign them back to Ottawa once the break concluded.
The people who follow it tend to be media people, die hard fans, and the like. Anyways, the person was wrong, and so this account decided to correct them.
Now, anyone who spends five minutes looking at the Twitter profile here can realize this is a second account, which is surprisingly common on Twitter. Six months, zero tweets. But tweets total, all of which consist of moving into conversations taking place between people in the Ottawa hockey community.
Whoever it is, the person is pretty entrenched within the Ottawa hockey community. And they know an awful lot about the team. I have no idea who is behind the account, but the number of people who could be is probably considerably smaller than what we think.
They are particularly supportive of the decision makers in the organization. The second point branches off into a bunch of sub-points. Here is what he or she has to say there:. Anyways, you get the point. It goes on and on and on.
The second most common theme? Staunch defense of decisions made by the Ottawa Senators over the past few years. Some of the arguments go back as far as , like when the person became aggrieved at a discussion over Mark Scheifele, Sean Couturier, and Mika Zibanejad:.
He made this clear a few times on his page:. He also liked the trade for Alex Burrows. The one that shipped prospect Jonathan Dahlen over to Vancouver last season:. Then there was this one-off defense of winger Magnus Paajarvi tweeted back in March. There, he believed the player should be awarded an extension. Yes, Nick Shore. The person shares an awful lot of thoughts about Erik Karlsson. It started here, which was actually the first tweet he published after that random complaint about the AHL paper transaction.
He is correct, again. Anyways, not sure I have ever seen anything like this before. Whoever it is, you have to admire the consistency and dedication. I truly have no idea who it could be. Point number two was dedicated to Erik Karlsson. The trade discussion encircling Karlsson and Ottawa is now inescapable.
The one thing I wanted to do though is spend some time talking about the things I have heard over the past half-season and, more generally, providing an eleventh thought — based on what I know — about a potential trade.
All of the organizational in-fighting really comes down to two people: the owner, and the player. There are three things professional athletes want — long-term security, a lot of money, and a chance to win championships. Ottawa has always had the upper hand on the first point. Karlsson clearly loves living in the city. That means quite a bit. But the other two areas are huge going concerns. The team has few remaining executives. Some have been fired. Some have been fired and turned around to sue the team.
The owner is now juggling multiple executive hats. Can this team — a team in a full-blown rebuild with a [still recovering? It just seems increasingly unlikely.
And if the team is dedicated to a true rebuild plan as reported, does the Karlsson retention even make hockey sense? Or the impact it had when he left the organization for a second time. Or any of the unhinged rants about financial investment into hockey operations. The first is that the team is selectively loyal. As an aside, I think all teams and all players should be selectively loyal. The second is that the team is not serious about winning a championship, or has no plan to win a championship, or both.
General managers can pick up a phone and call Pierre Dorion and talk about a trade. The latter is true regardless of whether a trade materializes today or if he leaves the organization when his contract expires. This is, to be absolutely clear, happening.
The discussion around whether or not Erik Karlsson will be moved at the trade deadline is interesting, but ultimately immaterial. If you needed any further indication that this move is about clearing money above all else, the Bobby Ryan attachment would help solidify it.
Karlsson, on his deal and in his condition, is one of the most valuable trade pieces a team can possibly have. Even entertaining the idea of utilizing his value to get off of yet another bad contract should tell you all you need to know. And, again, a Ryan inclusion makes this deal infinitely more difficult from a trade deadline perspective. Teams and players generally know the landing spot for a deal and when they are able to execute on it, they sign the dotted line and move on.
This is the part that I think Karlsson, right or wrong, will have to wear. His commentary about wanting to be paid top dollar has had a chilling effect on negotiations before they could even begin. I do think he wants out of the Ottawa Senators organization. There are two ways Ottawa can retain Erik Karlsson.
The first is an ownership change. One including Daniel Alfredsson would surely be a plus. Hoffman is the type of player every team around the league covets. That appears to matter little to Ottawa, a team now militantly hunting for any and every way to shed player salaries. I know this because the owner last week proclaimed that he would cut player payroll next because he had already cut non-roster personnel to the bone.
Hoffman trade rumors have been making the rounds for the last few days and you already get the sense that this team is going to pitch this type of trade as a way to spark the rebuild and improve the team long-term. After all, Hoffman is a desirable asset to most teams all teams? So the argument will be shoehorned as pain now, gain later. Hoffman, by most first-line standards, is underpaid. And since he still has 2. I know this because, uh, only 20 or so players have out-produced Hoffman over the last four years, and the vast majority of those names are franchise cornerstones who border on untouchable.
They are cash poor and prioritize spending less money than their competitors above all else. Paralyzed by a grim financial outlook, Ottawa will continue to look for any way at keeping costs down. The last six years or so has been a stark reminder on how serious they are about winning. They have been out-spent by a sun belt team in Nashville.
Their closest comparable? That sounds familiar! In any market, this is the green light a general manager needs to start purging older and declining assets for futures. This is the sort of move that satisfies an owner and can help improve the on-ice product long-term.
The team has more or less rolled the dice twice on big salaries. What must be increasingly frustrating for the team right now is that neither had to happen. Why does this matter? Ryan, now 30 years of age, has just four goals this season. I suspect there is extremely little trade market for either of these players.
They are rapidly declining assets on bloated deals, and the only way these types of players get traded is if the trading team is willing to absorb or retain a significant piece of salary.
This is, not surprisingly, one of the lowest numbers in the league. Ottawa has an unstable financial situation and, in the rare moments where they have opened the wallet, have completely misfired. Combine a cash issue with roster mismanagement and you end up convincing yourself that trading a first-line winger for a future s asset makes sense. It could be anything! It could even be Mike Hoffman! Unfortunately for Ottawa the Mike Hoffman trade situation is just the beginning.
You dangle a non-competitive roster in front of a generational talent who cares an awful lot about winning, and you have the exact recipe you need to, well, lose that very player. Keep this part in mind if and when a Hoffman trade is effected.
Losing Hoffman would hurt Ottawa. Losing Karlsson would cripple them. And make no mistake, these two are related. One of the worst kept secrets around the National Hockey League is that the Ottawa Senators are in a financial bind. To what degree is up for debate, but cash flows are a huge problem for the organization right now. The organization is asset rich and cash poor. I wrote about this in depth during the summer of , where the Ottawa Senators were in a similar cash flow bind.
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