I've caught some bad virus of late which kept me from the keyboard. Even though I'm not over it yet, I feel well enough to throw some more stupidities at you. So here goes.

Let's backtrack to Tuesday and the Senators' overtime loss to the hot Isles in overtime. Why do I mention "hot"? For background. The Isles have taken apart a lot of pretty good goalies of late. They put four past the Habs' Alex Auld, seven past Buffalo's Ryan Miller, and six past the Penguins' Brent Johnson and a further three more past Marc-André Fleury when he was sent in to replace Johnson. Nine in total.

First to shut the naysayers who keep coming down on Brian Elliott. Elliott had a great game, only allowing three goals which, compared to the laundry list above, is pretty darn good. He did keep the Senators in the game long enough for Erik Karlsson to tie it up.

The game went to overtime and then to the shoot-out. And THAT's when I lost faiith. I turned the TV off (no, I wasn't at the game). I didn;t want to watch what was bound to happen next. I have no faith in the Senaotrs in the shoot-out. It turned out I was correct. I checked the PVR the next day and was oh-so-pleased to see how easily Alex Kovalev undressed the Isles' goalie. But that was it. Elliot is not great in the shoot-out, and the results were foregone.

I did like the way the Senators played... well expect maybe on the third goal where it was a little bit like the Ice Follies. but they came back. Altogether a good game from a team that has a huge "For Sale" sign on almost all of its players.

GO SENS GO!!