B-Sens 2023-24 Belleville Senators

[mianjo]

BSens down 2-1

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Holy cow how long are they going to look this over?

the 1st Cleveland goal looked like GI and they didn't look at it. Playoff game .. have a look

 

[mianjo]

BSens with a 2 man advantage to start the 3rd

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

BSens with a 2 man advantage to start the 3rd

2 good chances at the end of the period

 

[Ouroboros]

Huge stops by Greaves on the 5-on-3. He's elite at this level.

 

[mianjo]

BSens could not take advantage of the 5 on 3

 

[Ouroboros]

Two huge saves by Merilainen to keep Belleville in it. One on a breakaway, and another on a cross-ice feed just afterward.

 

[Ouroboros]

Merilainen stops another breakaway with 2:50 left. Really giving his team a chance.

 

[SensHulk]

BSens could not take advantage of the 5 on 3

Just like the NHL sens…

 

[mianjo]

BSens pull the goalie

 

[mianjo]

3-1 en

FT

 

[Senscore]

Well so much for that

 

[Adele Dazeem]

GG

 

[SensHulk]

Good season BSens, nice to finally play some playoff games and win a round along the way.

Can’t go far without winning on the road unfortunately

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Battled hard. Close games .. could have gone either way... They were right in every game

 

[Ouroboros]

Pretty good season for Belleville all things considered. I think coach David Bell squeezed everything he could out of a very under-skilled roster. Games were tight, and they defend well.

In the end, they were done in by the same thing that dogged them all season long - they just couldn't score. Highmore and Smejkal didn't produce a single point in the playoffs. Chartier one point. Reinhardt one point. Guenette one point and pretty bad defensively as well. Crookshank only 2 points.

Belleville scored 18 goals and Halliday picked up a point on half of them!

Best players, in my opinion: Halliday, Pilon, Currie, Kleven, Matinpalo. Ostapchuk was really good against Toronto but didn't have much impact once he returned from injury.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Merilainen stops another breakaway with 2:50 left. Really giving his team a chance.

I wished they made the switch earlier

 

[Ouroboros]

I wished they made the switch earlier

It's hard to find the right time to make a goaltending change in a short series. Not sure when they could have done it, really - maybe for game 3?

I think putting a rookie who didn't play a ton in the regular season into an elimination game is probably not the ideal situation, but Merilainen was up to the task. Both goals scored on him tonight were kind of weird bounces that he couldn't do much about.

They probably wanted to give Sogaard as much rope as possible. He's turning 24 soon, and the time is coming when the organization will need to decide whether he's part of the future here or not. It wasn't a good showing for him, unfortunately.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

It's hard to find the right time to make a goaltending change in a short series. Not sure when they could have done it, really - maybe for game 3?

I think putting a rookie who didn't play a ton in the regular season into an elimination game is probably not the ideal situation, but Merilainen was up to the task. Both goals scored on him tonight were kind of weird bounces that he couldn't do much about.

They probably wanted to give Sogaard as much rope as possible. He's turning 24 soon, and the time is coming when the organization will need to decide whether he's part of the future here or not. It wasn't a good showing for him, unfortunately.

He didn't play well right off the bat in the 1st series .. I would have had Merilainen in then.. If he got hot I'd stick with him. It was obvious they were giving Sogaard a lot of rope.... He needs to change something in how he plays ..

 

[armani]

Good experience for the lads, the emergence of Buddy Halliday as a legit top-9 prospect is encouraging. He is so deceptive, like Mark Stone.

 

[Senator Stanley]

Was Soogard hurt? Or did they really demote him to third string for an elimination game?

 

[Ouroboros]

Was Soogard hurt? Or did they really demote him to third string for an elimination game?

David Foot said he was 'not at 100%' so you can make of that what you will.