Ugh... consistently inconsistent!

If you scroll down a couple of inches into the previous post you will find me hoping that we'll see some consistency. Yup, the team has that, but the showing of inconsistency. The Bruins have a decent club and a physical one at that, but there could have been a better effort tonight.

Goaltending

Gerber got the nod for the second night in a row and for the second night in a row he played very well when called upon, but the soft plays ended up popping juicy rebounds. That said, it wasn't his fault this game was lost. Not by a long shot.

Defence

Combine slow and sloppy with youth and brash; what do you get? Bad blueline presence. Though they bailed Gerber out on his juicy rebounds, but the blueliners were not the entire down ice quandaries. The players coming back were often lazy and did not do well to commit to the passes thus coughing up turnover after turnover.

Checking

There was some and in the last six minutes leading to Heatley's dumbdumb penalty there was a little more grit from the Senators, but overall, there was a laziness to the physical game. Combine this with soft passing plays, poor nuetral zone coverage and sloppy defence and you get the Senators losing 4-2.