Posts Tagged ‘Ottawa Senators’

The first round is over, and everything went according to plan.  Well, if the plan was to have multiple upsets, then it went as predicted. All things considered, it actually did go as I had predicted several weeks ago, give or take a series or two.  I told you at that time that the NHL […]


Now you know why I decided not to prognosticate beyond the first round of the NHL playoffs.  This is the one sport that you can count on upsets throughout the brackets.  It’s also the only sport that allows the top seeds to face the bottom seeds in every round, so you really don’t know who […]


You work hard all season long just so you can gain the home team advantage in the playoffs.  It’s huge in football, with the home team winning more times than not.  In basketball, it’s rare that a seventh or eighth seed ends up with more than one or two victories before being knocked out of […]


This is why you have to keep your head up when you’ve got the puck.  Ottawa’s Chris Neil lays Boston’s Johnny Boychuk out.  The thing is, Neil was visible to everyone in the building for about three full seconds to be heading toward Boychuk, who apparently was the only one in the building who didn’t […]