Five Reasons to Keep Watching the Ottawa Senators This Season

Photo by Darcy Finley/NHLI via Getty ImagesWith eighteen games left in another season where the Ottawa Senators will not qualify for the play-offs, I’ve been thinking about some of the reasons to keep watching the team down the stretch. We’ve unfortunately become awfully accustomed to this type of end-of-season rationalization, so let’s hear your own thoughts in the comments. And let’s all hope this is the last season that we’re talking about playing out the string for a while.

The Zub-Brännström pairing

Since Thomas Chabot was injured, Artem Zub and Erik Brännström have formed the titular first pair. In reality, the minutes have been distributed far more evenly across the three pairs than is…