SENShobo
The Ottawa Slump Non-Factors
by SENShobo on 11/18/08 at 01:25 PM ET
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From Ian Mendes of Sportsnet, on What’s not wrong in Ottawa,
I’ve covered this team as closely as anyone over the past few seasons and I still have no clue what is wrong with this team.
So I figured it would be easier (and quicker) to write about the things that AREN’T the cause for the Senators early season struggles. Here are four things we used to always blame for Ottawa’s problems that are no longer applicable:
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#3 - Coaching:
I know there have been whispers that perhaps Craig Hartsburg’s system is at fault for the team’s slow start. But this group has now had three coaches in this calendar year and none of them have turned this ship around. You could have Scotty Bowman or a sumo wrestler behind the bench and you probably would have the same result. (That second sumo wrestler reference is just to see if you are paying attention). Hartsburg and his coaching staff aren’t the problem here.
I figured that was probably the next direction fingers would point in, especially in the wake of the League mourning the loss of the hair, but even before last night’s game, MSG commentators noted that Spezza had said that Hartsburg’s been the most defensively detailed coach the Sens have had, and it’s been the team’s inability to work through it that’s caused their offense to sputter.
So have a read, and how about you? What do you think is wrong in the capital? (minus 100 points if you list something from Mendes’ column, without a thoroughly documented research paper to prove him wrong)
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