The stage was set for a grand Senate party, but the guests spoiled the fun.
The Ottawa Senators take on the New York Rangers in Game 6 of their quarterfinal series. Which team will come out on top? Our prediction panel weighs in.
The Ottawa Senators take on the New York Rangers in Game 5 of their quarterfinal series. Which team will come out on top? Our prediction panel weighs in.
The Ottawa Senators confidence is too subtle to be labeled a swagger, but they’re feeling awfully good about themselves leading up to Saturday’s Game 5 in their deadlocked series against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
This series between the Senators and Rangers has come full circle. At the outset, it pitted the eighth seed from Ottawa, playing with house money, against a first-place Rangers team expected to drape itself in glory. The pressure, the expectations to advance, were all on New York in a playoff round that, for the Senators, was already icing on a pleasantly surprising treat of a regular season. And now?
Several key players and Senators head coach Paul MacLean talk about the need to keep up the presssure and stick to their game plan to prevail against the determined New York Rangers, and to be prepared to do it without Daniel Alfredsson.
When the New York Rangers took a 2-0 lead on two power-play goals just six minutes into Wednesday’s game, goaltender Craig Anderson said the Ottawa Senators had to think they were playing a video game and hit the reset button.