{"id":988,"date":"2022-11-27T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T09:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/screen-shots-ryan-reaves-ottawa-senators-and-edmonton-oilers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T17:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T16:34:39","slug":"screen-shots-ryan-reaves-ottawa-senators-and-edmonton-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/screen-shots-ryan-reaves-ottawa-senators-and-edmonton-oilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Shots: Ryan Reaves, Ottawa Senators and Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"126.3622325171\"><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<div class=\"m-detail--body-item m-detail--body-item-inline\">\n<figure class=\"l-inline tml-image m-detail--tml-image--inline\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" wp_automatic_readability=\"1\"><phoenix-picture><a><picture class=\"is-waiting-to-load\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1240px) 700px, (min-width: 675px) 620px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_380\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.webp 380w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.webp 620w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1240\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.webp 1240w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_700\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.webp 700w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1400\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.webp 1400w\"><source sizes=\"(min-width: 1240px) 700px, (min-width: 675px) 620px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_380\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.jpg 380w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.jpg 620w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1240\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_700\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.jpg 700w, https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1400\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.jpg 1400w\"><\/picture><\/a><\/phoenix-picture><!-- disableImageMeta is needed to prevent duplicate rendering of the image meta.--><!-- Duplicate rendering can occur because we have moved the image metadata outside of--><!-- the .m-detail-header--container. The original image metadata in tmlImage is needed--><!-- for the InContent detail header which renders when the media size is inline or breakout.--><figcaption wp_automatic_readability=\"2\">\n<p class=\"tml-image--attribution\" itemprop=\"author\"><span>Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Welcome, once again, to Screen Shots, a regular THN.com feature that takes a briefer look at a few disparate hockey topics. In this edition, we\u2019re analyzing three NHL teams in different states of desperation thus far this season. As always, we\u2019ll get down to business right away:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Minnesota Wild looked rather desperate this week in <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/news\/wild-acquire-ryan-reaves-from-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquiring enforcer forward Ryan Reaves<\/a> from the New York Rangers. It\u2019s hard to imagine Wild GM Bill Guerin looking at his team\u2019s 9-8-2 record this year and deciding that adding a fighter who has never scored more than nine goals in a single season is going to jump-start Minnesota\u2019s largely ineffective offense? If Reaves really was a difference-maker, why did the Rangers give him up for only a fifth-round draft pick?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\">The Wild were on a two-game win streak heading into Friday\u2019s afternoon tilt against Toronto, but before that, they\u2019d lost five of seven games. They\u2019re fortunate to be playing in a Central Division that has the awful Chicago Blackhawks and Arizona Coyotes settling into the bottom of the division, and although they\u2019re technically in a three-way tie for the fourth spot, in five of their losses, they\u2019ve scored two goals or fewer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">If it weren\u2019t for strong play from No. 2 goalie Filip Gustavsson (playing in place of the injured starter Marc-Andre Fleury), the Wild would be even closer to the bottom of the Central than they are at the top. The Reaves trade feels like a desperate move to change the chemistry of the dressing room, and the salary-cap-strapped Wild need to turn things around quickly before Guerin makes a bigger, riskier deal.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\u2013 In Ottawa, the end feels near for Senators head coach D.J. Smith. Since their <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/news\/ottawa-senators-produced-a-successful-first-homestand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four-game win streak<\/a> in mid-to-late October&nbsp;produced some hope that Ottawa could contend for the playoffs, the Sens have gone a gnarly 2-10-1, and they currently have the NHL\u2019s second-worst points percentage (.342), with only Anaheim (.325) being worse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the Blackhawks and Coyotes are performing better, you know something has gone badly wrong. Given that the transitioning ownership group isn&#8217;t likely to fire GM Pierre Dorion, Smith probably will bear the brunt of the pressure, and Ottawa will turn to someone like veteran bench boss Alain Vigneault or up-and-comer Andrew Brunette.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">The problem with the Sens is clear \u2013 their defense is terrible, and lately, their offense has shut down as well: in their current three-game losing skid, they\u2019ve scored only a single goal in each game, and they were outscored 14-3 in that span.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">They\u2019re getting next-to-nothing on offense from their bottom-six forwards, putting all sorts of pressure on the top-six forwards to carry the load for them. Dorion still has more than $3.4 million in cap space, but this doesn\u2019t look like a franchise that can be turned around by a single roster move. Coaching is a zero-sum profession, and Smith knows his job security is jeopardized to a greater degree with every Senators loss. Another few games of misery and Dorion will likely cashier him, although the GM recently said coaching isn&#8217;t the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lastly, let\u2019s shine a light on the current slide of the Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton fans and media were fairly happy with a five-game win streak at the end of October that gave the Oilers a 7-3-0 record, but since then, they\u2019ve gone 3-7-0 and sit fifth in the weak Pacific Division.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers\u2019 bottom-six forwards are a nightmare, particularly when it comes to generating offense: in 20 games, their bottom two forward lines have amassed only 11 points \u2013 12 if you include injured forward Devin Shore. That is simply unacceptable, and the man responsible for it \u2013 GM Ken Holland \u2013 has to deal with the heat the franchise is feeling right now.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">Holland is completely capped-out, and even if he did have a few million in space, there\u2019s nobody on the trade block \u2013 Coyotes D-man Jakob Chychrun included \u2013 who could come in and make them into a responsible defensive unit. There\u2019s a bleakness surrounding this team, which has two all-world players in Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl but can\u2019t seem to figure out a way to surround them with above-average talent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">Holland has spent three years of the five-year contract he signed with Edmonton in May 2019 trying to construct a consistent winner, but at the moment, he doesn\u2019t appear to have the answers Oilers supporters are demanding. Soon enough, those supporters are going to start demanding change at the GM level.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/news\/screen-shots-ryan-reaves-ottawa-senators-and-edmonton-oilers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link: https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/news\/screen-shots-ryan-reaves-ottawa-senators-and-edmonton-oilers  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY Sports Welcome, once again, to Screen Shots, a regular THN.com feature that takes a briefer look at a few disparate hockey topics. In this edition, we\u2019re analyzing three NHL teams in different states of desperation thus far this season. As always, we\u2019ll get down to business right away: \u2013 The Minnesota Wild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1739],"tags":[2105,2098,2095,99,965,2106,2103,2097,2102,2101,2099,2096,2104,2100],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thehockeynews.com\/.image\/ar_16:9,c_fill,cs_srgb,fl_progressive,g_xy_center,q_auto:good,w_620,x_1635,y_630\/MTk0MDA0ODY4NjQwMjg2MjEz\/usatsi_17731884.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}