Sens at Land's End

Craig Hartsburg blamed the Sens’ most recent loss on mistakes by Daniel Alfredsson and Jason Spezza that led to Boston goals in the third period, and Alfie agreed:

“Those guys cost us the game,” said Hartsburg. “You try to trust your good players and those guys cost us the game.”

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“That’s an understatement. It’s an awful feeling for everybody because this is a game that can get us going,” said Alfredsson. “We’re playing a really good team and we didn’t start very well, but we battled back to tie. I make one move and try to make another and they score the winner.

“It’s my fault. I’m trying to do too much. It was awful because everybody worked really hard and battled.”

Alfie … you’re killing me here. First there’s the pain of seeing the captain struggle on the ice. That is followed up with the pain of hearing him blame himself for everything. Throw in the terribly sad shots of the players sitting on the bench looking despondent after the team has found a new way to blow it — now an every-game occurrence — and the Sens’ season is turning into a tearjerker right up there with Terms of Endearment.

Does anyone remember when hockey was fun? No? I’m going to have to start writing uplifting stories (fictional, obviously) about the team to make myself feel better.

Meanwhile, Brian Elliott has been called up from Binghamton. Presumably management felt he was having too much fun down there. Part of me wants to believe this means whatshisface is being waived, but the rest of me feels that would be too good to be true.