CHICAGO - Training camp doesn’t open until September but it’s not hard to figure out what Guy Boucher’s message will be to the Ottawa Senators on Day 1.
You can’t rest on your laurels.
Yes, the Senators made great strides this season by coming up a goal short in a 3-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final, but that doesn’t mean Ottawa can just show up for work next season thinking it won’t be that tough to make the next step.
“The one thing we can’t do, and I’ve lived it before, is we can’t stay on last year,” Boucher told Postmedia in an interview Saturday at the United Center before Round 2 of the NHL draft got under way.