The captain of the Ottawa Senators has called his squad “a budget team”, saying they have to grind out victories, because they can’t afford the high-priced talent some rivals can.
“We don’t have the same players as most teams do that are high-skilled and we’re not going to win games from a skill base,” Erik Karlsson said Wednesday.
“We’re not going to win games by scoring fancy goals and stuff like that. We have to realize we’re a grinding team. We’ve got to get back to that a little bit more. (Tuesday), we tried to do it a little bit fancy.