Currently out of the playoff picture, the Ottawa Senators are ironically in a better position right now than they were last year as the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference.
Granted, a lot of that has to do with the relative health of the team this year compared to last, when they sustained 219 man games lost the entire lockout-shortened season. That was the fourth-most amount in the league. This season, they’re dead last with just 26. The 29th-place team, the Los Angeles Kings, have sustained more than 50 more, with 78.
While that turnaround is amazing in its own right, it’s a larger wonder the Senators are only now finding their legs after finding so much success last year, much of it without the services of players like Jason Spezza, Erik Karlsson, Craig Anderson and Milan Michalek.
Currently at 21-18-8, the Senators are one point out of the last wild-card spot and seven back of the Montreal Canadiens for the third Atlantic Division berth. However, arguably more significantly, the Sens are 7-1-2 in their last 10 games, meaning as recently as just before Christmas, Ottawa was 14-17-6 and a different team fo ...
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