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High-Energy Sens Crash-Land In Carolina
by SENShobo on 11/08/08 at 11:25 AM ET
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Corvo was thrilled to depart the Ottawa media scrum last season when he was traded to Carolina, the scrum that nicknamed him ‘uh-oh’ Corvo for his many defensive lapses. With a wry smile somewhere I’m sure, he’s more or less kept the nickname for the Sens, just in a slightly different way, scoring four goals and five points in two games against his former team, potting both game-winning goals.
“It’s just a little extra in the Kool-Aid before the game,” he said.
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“It was just a point in the game where I felt like I wanted to get involved and maybe see what would happen in there,” Corvo said. “Sure enough, there was a turnover and it ended up on my stick. I just put it on net.”
And that ended the game for the Sens, one where they dominated early, with an 8-0 shot lead ten minutes into the first, but for all their denials looked every bit a team tired from playing three games in four nights.
“I didn’t think we were real sharp all night with the puck, but in the third period we were probably even sloppier,” [Hartsburg] said. “We lost a lot of battles, we took a penalty that obviously was costly. Again, it starts with how you play with the puck.”
No, the Sens didn’t deserve a win after this one. The shots may have only been 30-23 in the Canes favour, but when you account for the missed and blocked shots, their edge widens drastically to 75-50 in the pucks-at-net category. In a reverse of Tuesday’s game against Washington and Thursday’s game against Philly, where the Sens trailed27-20 and 37-28 in hits, respectively, they led 38-22 last night, leaving you wondering if any chances for puck control were given up to finish a check.
Their lack of energy grew only more apparent as the game wore on, where they went from 8 shots in the first ten minutes to four in the next ten, followed by only 6 and 5 in the last two periods, as Carolina pushed harder and harder, running the Sens ragged in their own end. The Sens goal was a hard-fought one, with Alfie shooting on Leighton, who let a rebound out that Fisher, also storming in on the rush, potted. The goals they allowed were ones of weak Senators’ efforts, letting Gerber get completely screened on both.
The lack of effort makes it feel like fate that Spezza’s goal was not allowed. He flipped a puck over Leighton, but the replay did not divulge the puck’s location, despite Leighton clearly reaching his arm fully into the net to swat it out, followed by the puck moving in sync out between his legs. By the time that Ruutu scored his goal, disallowed for crossing the blueline just in advance of Volchenkov and the puck, you knew the Sens shouldn’t have won the game in which their effort just simply vanished. (NHL.com, Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Sun)
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