Ahh, so yesterday's bump in the
Futility Meter (currently still
-11, 3-6-1)was an aberration brought on by the Senators being out of sync with their contemporaries. Now that Tampa, St. Louis, and Toronto have played games last night, most of our gauges of futility are back:
- we are now second last in the east (Tampa has passed us)
- St. Louis has re-passed the Senators to put the entire Western Conference ahead of us; and
- Toronto is again four points ahead.
But as far as being out of a playoff spot, it is the points gap which counts the most. The game against Montreal is the next step in the Senators journey to draft bliss or sustained mediocrity as exampled at length by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
