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Sens lose special teams battle to the Avalanche, 4-3

Only around 20% of a given hockey game is not played at 5-on-5, but it sure felt like the entire game was a special teams battle tonight. In fact, all 7 goals scored tonight were potted either on the powerplay or with an extra player on the ice. Unfortunately for the Senators, they ended up on the losing end of the battle, despite getting 71% of the shot attempts at even-strength tonight. That's just the way the snow blows sometimes.

I thought I'd try something different tonight, so let's start with the Game Flow from Natural Stat Trick (with markings by me; follow the numbers in the text below that correspond to the numbers on the picture) and go from there as I think it covers all of the meaningful items from tonight's game.