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The New Division

Ah yes, Rob Zamuner. What a comedy of errors that 98' Olympic team was. Wayne Gretzky's not good enough to attempt a shootout.
 
It kills me that hockey professionals can convince themselves that a player like Rob Zamuner can check better than a vastly more talented hockey player can. I mean, who would you rather take as your shutdown centre in a single elimination tournament; Brandon Sutter or Jonathon Toews? I'm pretty sure that if Toews wasn't too busy being a PPG centre, he would be an elite shut down defensive centreman. Why ever take a one dimensional defensive specialist when Canada is the one country in the world that can throw a gang of elite offensive talent that is also very good defensively out there?
 
That clip was a pretty good summary of our entire playoff history with you guys. We control the balance of the play with our superior skill. A blatant penalty (OT or not) is missed against you guys. We create a great scoring chance, cujo or Belfour makes a huge save. opportunistic/unexpected goal for the leafs coming the other way.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
That clip was a pretty good summary of our entire playoff history with you guys. We control the balance of the play with our superior skill. A blatant penalty (OT or not) is missed against you guys. We create a great scoring chance, cujo or Belfour makes a huge save. opportunistic/unexpected goal for the leafs coming the other way.
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You had a fruity group of perimeter players who couldn't get into the danger areas to score. Yet somehow you've fooled yourself into thinking this somehow constitutes a skill gap between your fruity perimeter players and a Leaf team that included 2 top 10 offensive defenders, one of the top centres of the past 15 years and various HOF'ers in their later years.

It was all Lalime's fault, right?
 
The skill-less Leafs finished fourth in league-scoring in 1999-00 (Ottawa seventh), fourteenth in 2000-01 (Ottawa third), third in 2001-02 (Ottawa fifth), and fourth in 2003-04 (Ottawa first).

The Leafs scored 969 regular-season goals in the four regular-seasons of the year they would meet Ottawa in the playoffs. Ottawa scored 1,023 regular-season goals over the same time period.

That's a 5.3% difference in offence between the two teams. In other words, there was no appreciably substantial difference in the two clubs skill-wise.
 
theREALkoreaboy said:
That clip was a pretty good summary of our entire playoff history with you guys. We control the balance of the play with our superior skill. A blatant penalty (OT or not) is missed against you guys. We create a great scoring chance, cujo or Belfour makes a huge save. opportunistic/unexpected goal for the leafs coming the other way.
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Sorry Jays we all know that KB's character on here is certifiable, but he's bang on in his assessment of the clip.

Sens have the better chances. Leafs get away with a blatant can opener trip on Bonk just prior to the Leafs getting a rush that leads to the winning goal, even though the play should have been blown dead with Ottawa going on the PP.

The two biggest problems with the Sens were Lalime and Jacques Martin forcing them to play like pussies. If Chara had just pounded the crap out of Roberts those series are entirely different.
 
The Sens biggest problem in those series' were failure to make coaching adjustments, a tremendous deficit in leadership compared to the Leafs, and a lack of physical players in their top six and top four groups.

The Leafs pretty much pushed them around at will.
 
If Chara had just pounded the crap out of Roberts those series are entirely different.
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Nope. It would have taken a lot more than just that to intimidate that Leaf group.
 
That was an easy, clear penalty call that stole a scoring chance from us which very soon after led to the scoring chance for you guys that led to the winning goal against.
 
Kind of like Alfredsson's hit from behind on Tucker?

The can-opener was a legal check until the 2005-06 season. Deal with it.
 
Lalime was great against the Leafs in 2001-02, I remember that much. Just checked his statistics right now and he had a .946 save percentage, 1.39 GAA, and four shutouts in twelve playoff games.

It's hard to win when your team can't score.
 
They were tight series. A goalie will put up some good numbers.

But Lalimes penchant for bad, back-breaking goals and early-deflating goals was unbelievable.
 
We as Sens fans are a little too quick to pile too much blame on Lalime. That being said, the emotional and psychological edge you guys had in every series knowing your goalie probably wasnt going to give up a backbreaker while ours was, was immense.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Lalime was great against the Leafs in 2001-02, I remember that much. Just checked his statistics right now and he had a .946 save percentage, 1.39 GAA, and four shutouts in twelve playoff games.

It's hard to win when your team can't score.
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Nice of you to include his dominant performance vs the Flyers to skew the stats...

In game 6 vs the Leafs he posted and .789 and in game 7 he followed it up with an .889. The rest of the series he was decent statistically, but pretty much always the second best goalie on the ice.
 
In the Leafs 01 sweep Lalime was good in game 1 posting 26 saves on 27 shots. Still he was outplayed by Josheph who went 36 for 36.

The rest of the series he was putrid posting .870, .885 and .880.

Keep up the revisionist history all you want, but Lalime vs the Leafs goalies was the single biggest reason the Sens lost those series.
 
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