Sens at Land’s End

Well, I think it’s safe to say the Sens’ season will be over on Wednesday. They played really, really well in the first half of the game today. Really well. I was so impressed: those were the Sens I knew. Then they scored, and completely fell apart. I have no idea what happened, except that a goal for killed this team, which is bizarre and totally encapsulates the way this season went, in a way. The Penguins tied it up, and then scored two goals within the first two or three minutes of the third, and after that you could just see, the Sens gave up. I can’t really blame them because I myself can’t wait for this horrific season to end. As soon as they lose game 4 — which they will, they literally have no chance of winning — I’m going to start working on repressing just about everything that’s happened since the end of December.

I should rephrase what I said earlier: I can’t blame them for quitting on it today; I can, however, sure as hell blame them for quitting on the season in January. There are several players I have no desire to see in Sens uniforms ever again, and I look forward to seeing some of them leave.

Most disappointingly (for me), I won’t get to go to game 6. The season will be over just a few days before I go home and I’ll have missed the whole thing.