Five Thoughts for Friday: Deep Playoff Runs and Loving Lucas Raymond

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports While the past six months have elapsed very quickly in the real world, events in the Sensphere have often proceeded at a glacial pace since March. Alas, with the draft now genuinely rapidly approaching and the official end of the 2019-20 NHL season in sight, it feels like we can’t keep up with all the moving pieces around Ottawa.

We’ve got Duclair’s commendable work with the HDA, Viktor Lodin’s arrest, and more jersey leaks. Vitaly Abramov’s temporary new team has an outbreak of COVID in the locker room, we have a senior director for the Senators Community Foundation, and the Sens weren’t paying the coaches. Bobby Ryan won the Masterton Memorial Trophy,…