Polemic Hockey

Goes to show how having a full-time job and a Center Ice so as to not need to wait for the intermission of the Penguins/Flyers game on Versus to catch up on news from The League will do to one's overall hockey knolwedge. After the finals it is clear as a mountain lake the the Sens were a good team on a special run rather than a great team playing up to its abilities. Commentators said that the brawl with the Sabres was a turning point for the club. True. Almost all teams, however, go through strong runs of ten and even twenty games. The Sens' was a bit more, which is a credit to them, but all of these stretches come to a close and the median reasserts themselves. The Sens were a good team with a strong first line, solid but not spectacular defense and average goaltending. That is all. They only won one game in the series by way of Mario Kart officiating. Moreover, the classless actions of their captain and the sloppy play of their defense as the series progressed proved that they were substantially overmatched.

I doubt that the Sens will make it past Round Two next year.