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OTTAWA -- The New Jersey Devils have only themselves to blame for this.
Here they sit, one game away from their third trip to the Stanley Cup finals in the last four years, but with an Ottawa Senators team that is mushrooming into a formidable opponent before their eyes.
The Devils, as much as anyone, are responsible for these Senators. It goes back to the earliest days of Ottawa coach Jacques Martin's tenure when he used to watch tapes of the 1995 Stanley Cup champion Devils and marvel at their team play.
The Senators were still last in the league back then, a sad-sack bunch that was once labeled by a national publication as the worst professional sports franchise in existence.more...
Here they sit, one game away from their third trip to the Stanley Cup finals in the last four years, but with an Ottawa Senators team that is mushrooming into a formidable opponent before their eyes.
The Devils, as much as anyone, are responsible for these Senators. It goes back to the earliest days of Ottawa coach Jacques Martin's tenure when he used to watch tapes of the 1995 Stanley Cup champion Devils and marvel at their team play.
The Senators were still last in the league back then, a sad-sack bunch that was once labeled by a national publication as the worst professional sports franchise in existence.more...
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