Over the past few seasons, we’ve seen the Ottawa Senators go from Eastern Conference finalists to total, tear-it-to-the-studs rebuild, all the way to the place they are today — potential (hopeful?) play-off contenders. It’s been a journey
While the Sens have had many things happen on and off the ice, one thing that has stayed consistent is the team’s inability to get their season started off to a good start. Fans have grown accustomed to an interesting, sometimes exciting post-trade deadline run at the end of one campaign fueling off-season optimism that then slow morphs into yet another slow start where it feels like the team is already playing for a lottery pick well before the December holidays.