Posts About "Craig Anderson"
5 Goalies' Trends Affecting Their Team's Performance
January 9th, 2018 Teams are typically only as successful as their goaltending is good. Or maybe it's that a goalie's success is reflective of the quality of players in front of him. Either way, it appears that the relationship is one of the chicken and the egg: that an argument can be made for each being the cause for the other's effect. I feel that it is...
Senators Weekly: Ryan Dzingel Leads Offensive Surge
January 9th, 2018 The Ottawa Senators find themselves on the outside looking in at the Eastern Conference playoff race for a number of reasons, but maybe the biggest is the team’s lack of offence. Despite their impressive top-six forward group, the Senators are tied for 17th in the league in goals-per-game. Through a combination of injuries, bad luck...
Senators Weekly: Erik Karlsson Leading by Example
December 19th, 2017 During the NHL 100 Classic, the Ottawa Senators' stars came to play. Craig Anderson registered a shutout, stopping all 28 Montreal Canadiens shots. Erik Karlsson logged nearly 33 minutes of ice time, blocked eight shots, and assisted on the game-winning goal. Bobby Ryan scored a breakaway goal after stripping Jonathan Drouin of the...
5 Best Games of the Senators-Canadiens Rivalry
December 15th, 2017 The rivalry between the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators is a bit overshadowed by the hate both fan bases have for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it’s one of the more interesting rivalries in the NHL. Whether it’s a brutal hit, controversial call, or some kind of coaching craziness, something always seems to get fans fired up...
What's Wrong With the Ottawa Senators?
November 25th, 2017 All is not well in Canada’s capital for the local team. It’s not quite at the state-of-emergency level, to borrow from the region’s political speak, but if the Ottawa Senators can’t turn things around – and soon – there will be a price to pay. It’s a far cry from the beginning of the season, when the Senators bolted up...
The Colorado Avalanche: An Odyssey of Idiocy, Part 1
August 7th, 2017 After a dismal 2016-17 season, the Colorado Avalanche are in the midst of their third rebuild in 10 years. But who's counting? It's not like the Avs haven't had the resources to improve. Their various rebuilds have yielded some high draft picks and top-tier NHL talent. Yet here we are, now almost 10 years removed from the Avs' last...
