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Silver Nuggets: Where to go from here?

Last night was tough for a number of reasons. The Senators outshot and outchanced the Avalanche heavily, but their backbone of support the entire year, their goaltenders, couldn't buy a save. Sometimes, things like this happen, and I just hope the team doesn't overthink or overreact

Silver Nuggets: Update on Penalties and the Penalty Kill

It has been a tale of two special teams for the Senators the past two weeks. Earlier, I looked at Senators powerplay 0 a unit that was beginning to "struggle" in terms of performance. I presented some data and argued that the Senators were getting unlucky, as they

Silver Nuggets: A look at some scoring chance numbers

Scoring chance numbers are the most commonly cited "analytic" that the public sphere hears from executives from NHL teams. Although a metric like Corsi correlates very highly with scoring chance differential over time and is easily accessible to everyone rather than tracking scoring chances individually for each team,

Silver Nuggets: Examining the Sens powerplay

The reason why you're starting to see a lot more analysis focusing on shot attempts rather than other metrics is due to it's link with possession, scoring chances, and predicting future performance. Thus, when columns were penned last week about the Senators not 'finishing their

Silver Nuggets: Trading for Erik Karlsson's defense partner

With news last week that Marc Methot had been returned to the injury reserve, sirens in the Sens-specific region of my brain started to go off. What about the defense? It's clear that no one - management, the coaching staff, or Methot himself - knew that the hard-nosed

Silver Nuggets: Discussing our satisfaction with the Senators season

The reason why I asked about what you all would be happy with as a result of the 2014-15 Ottawa Senators season is because it was a question that I was undecided on as well. Given that, I'm not surprised that there's a variety of opinions

Silver Nuggets: What would you be satisfied with this season?

This seems to be the case recently, but I stumbled onto a really interesting conversation on Twitter this morning. There's lots of talk about topics that have become commonplace for Sens fans the past few years: budget, asset management, and personnel usage. I'm not going to