Lets take a few minutes to examine the current losing streak that the Ottawa Senators are working on. Two months ago today the Senators were sitting in playoff position, today they sit in 13th with only the Islanders and Devils keeping them from 15th. From Thanksgiving to Christmas the decline was slow and steady (5-6-3), but the Senators never came back from Christmas break. In the 13 games since Christmas, the Senators are 2-8-3, that is a total of 7 points out of a possible 26. The Senators have been especial bad to their home fans, going 3-10-3 over their last 16 home games. In the 13 games since Christmas, the Senators have scored 23 goals and given up 48 (-25). Their power play is 4 for 40 (10%) while their penalty kill has given up 7 goals on 40 opportunities (82.5%). Amazingly the Senators have put 418 shots on goal in that time frame (5.5 shooting percentage) while only facing 373 (87.1 save percentage). To add some perspective to the Senators' numbers since Christmas; Jody Shelley has a better shooting percentage on the year (7.7%) and Sidney Crosby scored 14 goals over a 13 game span this season (only 9 behind the pace of the entire Senators' roster). Brian Elliott and Pascal Leclaire have a combined goals against average of 2.98 and and a save percentage of .903 for the year. A portion of those numbers can be blamed on the defense, who are a combined -73 for the year.
Although stats can't tell us everything, it is pretty obvious to me that the Senators are dong just about everything wrong. I would be shocked if Cory Clouston makes it to this time next week.
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