Even after the Ottawa Senators used a 12-5-1 stretch to erase another poor start to the season, it still appeared that the team had been quite unlucky in terms of shooting percentage. I assumed that it would trend upward as the season continued and that the team could maintain a decent, if not similar record.
Instead, not only has the team's finishing gotten even worse, but the goaltending has regressed significantly. Logically, it’s only a matter of time before pucks start going in, not just for the struggling top-six forwards (Tim Stützle and Claude Giroux are the only two who’ve been good in this regard), but for some of the bottom-six as well (Parker Kelly had 7 in 41 games last year), but until that happens, simply outshooting teams as they’ve done throughout the year is turning into old news.