View photos from Game 4 of the Senators’ first-round series against the Rangers.
They are the little miracle that keeps on giving, the 2011-12 edition of the Ottawa Senators. The team that won’t go away.
They refused to give up. Down 2-0 after only 6:10, the Senators worked their way back slowly, getting the game to overtime thanks to an outstanding second period and goals from Milan Michalek and Sergei Gonchar. Kyle Turris then scored the winner 2:42 into overtime, after taking a nifty drop pass from Jim O’Brien.
If the Ottawa Senators published an encyclopedic annual that detailed the organization’s history, within its glossary under the term ‘snake bitten,’ you’d find the following: Alexei Yashin’s career playoff numbers; a photograph of Bill Muckalt; and some reference to the inordinate number of posts that the late Sergei Zholtok’s hit with his shots. Should their [...]
The Ottawa Senators head into tonight’s fourth game down 2-1 in their best-of-seven series. With the likely absence of Daniel Alfredsson for the second straight game, the team is probably looking for its own hero to match the New York Rangers’ scoring hotshot Brian Boyle.
The Ottawa Senators take on the New York Rangers for Game 4 of their quarterfinal series. Which team will come out on top? Our prediction panel weighs in.
Say this for Senators head coach Paul MacLean. He knows the value in at least trying to keep a young hockey team from getting discouraged, emotionally down, over what could be the most discouraging news possible: getting shut out by Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers in Game 3 AND losing the services of captain Daniel Alfredsson from a hit in Game 2 of this NHL Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.