Another NHL regular season has come and gone, and for the fourth consecutive season, the Ottawa Senators find themselves on the outside looking in where the Stanley Cup playoffs are concerned. Surely the gnawing hunger for playoff hockey is beginning to grow in the nation’s capital; memories of the 2017 Eastern Conference Final are slowly fading into the ether, and the current iteration of the team boasts a vastly different look from their predecessors.
Fans of the team should, however, take solace in the fact that the Senators are well on their way back to contention, and in the meantime, there are plenty of other reasons to watch this Sens-less postseason.