GARRIOCH: The Ottawa Senators focus on hard work to try to get back to having success
It ended with 10 minutes of skating drills and though the Senators have put the club’s performance in Sunrise in the rearview mirror, they know they can be better.
“Everyone’s got to be better: From the coaching staff to the players. It’s everybody,” Smith added. “This isn’t me telling them or them telling me. We all want to win here and we’ve just got to be on the same page and whoever is going has got to go.” Ottawa Senators goaltender Anton Forsberg looks back at a goal scored by Florida Panthers defenceman Brandon Montour to give the Panthers a 4-3 lead in the third period at FLA Live Arena.These points against teams in the divisional opponents are big. The Senators woke up in last place in the Atlantic Division Sunday morning. Let’s keep this all in perspective, it’s only eight games into the season and there’s a lot of racetrack left before tickets to the playoffs are handed out.
“Maybe a one-off night is part of it. is just not the way we wanted to play. Our details weren’t there and a lot of stuff wasn’t there. We had a hard practice, we skated hard and we focused on our systems. All we can do is flush that game down the drain.”Article content The Panthers finished the game with 58 shots. That’s a franchise-record for most shots allowed in a game by the Senators. The old record was 57 allowed on Nov. 1, 2013 against the New York Islanders in a 5-4 shootout loss.