Game n°42 preview: Caps look to gain capital chez les Sens

Welcome back from the holidays! Fine, perhaps it's the Ottawa Senators who need to do some gaining, not Washington — the Caps currently sit 2nd in the Metropolitan Division, 5th in the Eastern Conference and 14th league-wide... right about the spot where a lot of bloggers, fans and experts picked Ottawa to settle in at comfortably, with two games in hand besides. Well, the second half of the season starts now. Our inconsistency continues, but the boundaries of our inconsistency have moved to the positive side of the spectrum, mostly.

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Game n°25 file notes: Sens beat Caps in wonky 6-4 game

If we were looking for a turning point, maybe this game was it.

It was the type of game that made the Washington broadcasters remark of the Sens, “They look like they’re still on the power play.” It was the type of game where capitalizing on every chance helped them create their own luck, rather than letting the other team come to them. And if you thought that cliché was one cliché too many—it was the type of game with spirit. Team spirit. (But only from the second period on, though.)

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