Coyotes Host Senators
With the last four road games, the Senators have been winless. They haven’t found a way to win in the West posting losses against the San Jose Sharks, and the Los Angeles Kings. According to them, they have been making mistakes and due to those mistakes, the emotions have kicked in and have cost them victories. The only win they have earned was against the Columbus Blue Jackets at home.
In the past five games, their opponents have outscored the Senators by a 2-to-1 margin, and given up the first goal in 4 of 5 games. In the shootout loss against the Bruins, they scored the first two only to have the Bruins score three unanswered.
They hate to travel as their road record is 3-6-1, their plus/minus on the road is a minus-14, and they are minus-4 on the power play/penalty kill differential. Plus, Senators goalie Brian Elliot is struggling.
So, they look to be a fragile team.
However, the Senators are still seventh in the Eastern Conference (because they play well in their own barn), and have a multitude of weapons with three players (Daniel Alfredsson, Mike Fisher, and Milan Michalek respectively) scoring more than 20 points. So, it’s not like this will be an easy game, and they might be even so frustrated that they plan to take it out on the Coyotes.
Hopefully, though the frustration level will be higher on the Senators’ bench than the Coyotes. Because when fragile teams come to Glendale, the Coyotes can’t seem to put them away.
And this time, they need to.
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