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It has been just over a month since the last time Mark Stone, Matt Duchene, and Ryan Dzingel have suited up for the Ottawa Senators. They were all traded just before the deadline, and the team is obviously horrendous right now. Having said that, I wanted to look at some team and individual stats over the past month and see if any stats were interesting and noteworthy.
In 13 games they have a record of 3-9-1, which is surprisingly only third worst in the league over that span. So what else has happened in those 13 games then?
1. Corsi: 46.23%. This is obviously still a very low number that is 23rd in the league, but their corsi before this was 44.97% (dead last), so the fact that they have been just slightly better without their three best forwards is odd. Some of that could be due to Marc Crawford taking over, as Guy Boucher’s teams were never good in terms of puck possession.
2. SH% (5v5): 7.55%. Ottawa’s SH% before this past month was 8th in the league at 8.93% and since then, it has ranked 19th. Considering the fact that they lost three 30-goal scorers, a drop in shooting luck is the least surprising development ever.
3. CA/60 (Shorthanded): 96.79. This number is pointless without context, so let me provide some. The Senators have been giving up the 9th most shot attempts against on the penalty kill in the past month, but prior to that, they were dead last with 109.58, so perhaps there is a slight tweak that Marc Crawford has employed. It could also mean nothing, but it is at least an eyebrow-raiser.
4. Thomas Chabot GF%: 25%. Chabot was on the ice for six goals and eighteen against in eleven games without these big three...Obviously it is going to affect everybody when the best forwards leave the team, but he was not nearly as effective as he usually was all year long. Hopefully this is just a blip, but we’ll know next year if he is a legitimate number one defenseman.
5. Brady Tkachuk HDCF%: 48.35%. With Mark Stone, Tkachuk was a beast. He has consistently been at the top of the league in terms of high-danger scoring chances (60.38% up until Stone’s departure), although he hasn’t been quite as dominant since. He has six points in thirteen games, and it’s easy to see why his production would take a bit of a hit.
6. CF/60 (Powerplay): 69.33. This is the same as the shot attempts against stat, except this time it’s for Ottawa’s powerplay. 69.33 is purely abysmal, as the best team over this span, Toronto, has 121.8. This number is easily the worst in the league, and up until the deadline, they were second last in the league at 81.44. The fact that they were already second last and somehow got
that much worse is crazy to me. Stone, Duchene, and Dzingel were huge parts of their powerplay, and it shows the most with this stat.
7. Tied for team leader in points: Brian Gibbons (6). Zack Smith, Anthony Duclair, and Brady Tkachuk are also tied for first in points during this span with six, but Gibbons has only played in 10 games as opposed to 13. I’m not sure if he is an actual worthwhile asset to keep around for next season, but he’s having one hell of an audition for a team that has a lot of open spots. Just like we all predicted back in October, Brian Gibbons is one of the biggest offensive threats on the Senators.
Overall, nothing has stuck out too much since the big three have left, but at least it hasn’t been all dreadful news.
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