Got home from Pittsburgh this afternoon.
Not doing that drive again for Game 7 won’t bother me. Hotel rooms I had booked were cancelled this moring. The Senators were lucky to force a Game 5 in the first place.
The Senators had a good season. They didn’t look good in the end. Beaten by a better team. The best team in the East.There will be changes. There always are. Guillaume Latendresse is gone. Peter Regin will be thanked. Jim O’Brien has a year left but he should be as well. Time to move on. Same defenceman Mike Lundin.
All are interchangable parts. Not sure what they should do with Andre Benoit. He is a UFA. He’s fine. He isn’t a worldbeater. He gets the job done. If he can get more money elsewhere he should do it.
Patrick Wiercioch will be fulltime next year if he can stay healthy.
I think Daniel Alfredsson will be back.
These are just some initial thoughts after an eight hour drive from Pittsburgh. It will be Boston and Pittsburgh in one semi-final.
Once the other is settled I will put up my picks for the next round.
Covering the Senators in the playoffs again was fun.
Great matchup with Montreal. Overmatched against the Penguins.
Lessons learned. Seems late though. We went straight from the lockout to the season. Suddenly it is late-May.