First and foremost, your heart goes out to Craig Anderson and his family when the goalie’s wife gets dragged into a fight with a despicable, deadly disease.
On another level, you also have to feel for Guy Boucher, who was finally given another chance to coach in the NHL, and Pierre Dorion, a first-time GM, when they took over their respective jobs thinking they had a bonafide No. 1 puck stopper.
“It was exciting for me, because I really, really believe in Anderson,” Boucher said Monday morning. “I think he’s a terrific goalie.”
The new system in Ottawa was going to make Anderson even better, Boucher promised, and that seemed to be the case when he won six of his first seven starts.