Ottawa should be closer to the playoffs, but they’ve wasted points in losses to Buffalo
OTTAWA — When you check out colleague Dom Luszczyszyn’s playoff chances model on Tuesday morning, the Ottawa Senators’ playoff chances should still be near 100 percent. They’ve rightfully earned the playoff cushion they’ve built so late in the season.But this year’s Senators will have to enter the postseason with an ugly blemish on their regular-season record: four losses at the hands of the lowly Buffalo Sabres. Or maybe not so lowly now: the Sabres’ 5-2 win over the Senators on Tuesday night helped them leapfrog the Boston Bruins from the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings.Advertisement“You don’t want to lose four times to a team in your conference,” Senators defenceman Jake Sanderson said. “It was a tough pill to swallow.”Tuesday night’s loss — not an April Fool’s joke by any means — was their second to Buffalo in a week, […]
