Senators Woes

As most of you may know, I cheer for the Ottawa Senators. And the season isn't going so well.

Last night, The Sens lost to the New Jersey Devils 4-3 in Overtime. Ottawa blew three leads in the game of 1-0,2-1 and 3-2.

Why is a team with so much tallent doing so poorly? Well there are several reasons why and one of them is their defence.

Gone are puck moving defenceman Joe Corvo, Wade Redden, Andrej Meszaros and Tom Preissing.

In are Jason Smith, Filip Kuba, Brendan Bell and Alex Picard, who are nowhere near able to move the puck.

Chris Phillips is a -21 and Anton Volchenkov is a -13, no where near the numbers they should be at for being the #1 paring on the team.

Daniel Alfredsson's leadfership has been a question for the past few seasons, Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley and Mike Fisher have no steped up and put up the numbers they should for the amount of money they are being paid.

The lone bright spots on the team are the play of forward Nick Foligno who has more points this season with the Sens than he did all last season and has been working hard all season and defenceman Filip Kuba we leads the team in plus/minus with +8 and in points with 22.

With the way the season is shaping up, it looks like the Sens will more than likely miss the playoffs if they don't turn things around this week.

Even if they do, it may be too late.

If the Sens can't turn things around, Jason Spezza will more than likely be dealt at the trade deadline and the off season will probably be used to rebuilt the team.

Lose it for Tavares anyone?