Notepad Chicken Scratch: Sens 2, Caps 1 (OT) -- FISH!

It was sloppy. It was ugly. It was always in doubt. And it was entirely well deserved.

Holy crap, we finally beat the Caps.

Tomorrow night...sweeping tales of redemption, bad ice, the incredibly fucking scary Alex Ovechkin and how one man will unite us all. No, not him. Him.

Notepad Chicken Scratch -- Leafs 3, Sens 2: Worst Senators Team Ever? Discuss.

You wouldn't think so, would you? On paper, we have to be better than the '92-'93 team, right? You remember them. Won 10 games all year. Didn't win a road game until the end of March. They were so bad that the League was convinced they threw the last game of the season for the privilege of taking...*cough*...Alexandre Daigle first overall. Of course, now, everybody knows we weren't good enough to fix games.

So why are the feelings exactly the same? Could it be the ridiculous number of shots we give up? Could it be that once the opposition scores a goal, I'm convinced the game is over because we have NO FUCKING OFFENCE?? Or, could it be we have the slowest, dumbest, softest goddamn defence ever to curse an Ottawa crease? Yeah, mostly that one.

The Creamy Middle to follow tomorrow...as soon as I wash the bile from my mouth. And apropos of nothing...Gator, consider yourself officially on notice.

Notepad Chicken Scratches: Any Other Bright Ideas?

Hey...um...Coach? The drawing board is over there.

Panthers 3, Sens 1. Coach Craig's little experiment leaves us rather underwhelmed. Nice of the boys to front-load the excrement for this one. And Pierre McGuire makes an inordinate amount of homoerotic references. Even for him.

Stay tuned for all this, and more! Coming to you in the next Creamy Middle tomorrow night...ish.

In the meantime, I'll try very hard to resist the urge to feed my Martin Gerber Collectible Voodoo doll into a wood chipper.