To think about: the un/expected friendships within the team

The game day skate open to the public had been going on for a few minutes, and Paul MacLean called the entire team in to the centre to stretch. The Ottawa Senators arranged themselves in a haphazard circle facing centre ice; they stretched at their own pace, sometimes paying heed to MacLean, sometimes chatting to their neighbours.

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Let's worry about team spirit, or the lack thereof.

Spirit has a rather juvenile connotation when one wishes to speak of it as an intangible factor affecting a hockey team's recent play. We're at the 30% mark of the season, though, and I'd say it's a pretty apt term for what I'd like to talk about. We've seen the Senators win big, only to drop the next few games. We haven't had a win streak longer than three games. As for the sometimes-downright-putrid possession numbers, well, we can conclude that either the Sens are simply not a good team, or they don't "care enough" or "want it enough".

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