Yup, I think the price of gas was too high for the Senators and they declined to fill up. Or perhaps it was the two road games plus one home game in 4 days that finally got the best of them.

Compared to the previous games, and especially to the way they manhandled the Flyers only a few days before, the Senators looked like they were skating in slow motion. Granted the Rangers played a little more desperately, nevertheless, the Sens should have been able to handle them.

But Ottawa didn't show the intensity they'd shown in the past little while, and lost too many battlles. Chief among their sins was the inability of their defense to keep the Rangers offense outside the crease. Some commentators called it mistakes by Erik Condra and Jason Spezza who lost track of their man. But they were the result of lost battle by Erik Karlsson and Filip Kuba, or of one of the too numerous gift-wrapped neutral zone giveaways that plagued the Sens.

On the attack, the Senators also seemed to be once again guilty on the "one-pass-too-many" syndrome, and forgot to shoot the puck. They only put a measly 27 shots on goal. On a night where Henrik Lundqvist was giving up huge rebounds, no one was there to take advantage of them. Even mighty "Neo" Anderson looked all-too-human.

Let's leave that one behind as it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The next one will be better after a few days of rest and recuperation.

Neo's numbers

GO SENS GO!!