Welcome to Ottawa, "Neo"!

You can hear the voice from The Matrix :
"Mr. Anderson..."
"My name is Neo!"
 It has a certain ring to it, no? A certain cachet.

After the 47 saves made by Craig Anderson which kept the Senators in the game, the comparison may not be that far off. Anderson made saves that sometimes looked like he was moving in "bullet time". He saved the Senators from themselves, because the Senators offensive was well and truly emasculated. I like that word: "emasculated". No balls. No cojones. The Leafs, I am sad to report, really showed us what offensive looks like.

The Sens power play was particularly dismal sometimes spending the entire 2 minutes just trying to get past the Leafs blue line. Defensively, the Sens were much better than offensively. If the Sens have been guilty of one thing this season, this is it. They are unidimensional. Either offensive or defensive, but never both. Sad, very sad.

When the shoot-out started I almost turned off the TV. But no. I had faith this time. Neo would come through. And he did, in spades, racking up his first shut-out with the Senators. Jason Spezza finally buried one after Alex Kovalev made a great attempts that was stopped by an even better save from Toronto's Reimer.

I shouldn't complain. The Senators have picked up a rare two point. This is not a game that any of our goalies could have saved for us, not even Robin Lehner. But Anderson did. Now if they can just rack up a win at home. We're still waiting for the first home win of 2011.

GO SENS GO!!

 

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