OTTAWA — Down to their last out, the Ottawa Senators plan on retreating to the style that brought them to the Eastern Conference finals.
That means the neutral zone should be a crowded piece of ice when the Pittsburgh Penguins look to eliminate the Senators on Tuesday night at Canadian Tire Centre.
“We can’t be sitting in our mud puddle,” Senators coach Guy Boucher said Monday, less than 24 hours after a 7-0 shellacking put Ottawa behind 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. “We’ve got to get up and go.”
Boucher said the Senators opened up early in the Game 5 loss, and that was what got them in trouble.