A look at why going down 0-3 to the Habs stings so much.
When Bryan Murray said at the beginning of the year that this was a playoff team, I laughed. This was a team that had failed to make the playoffs in the previous season and in the offseason had turned Jason Spezza into Alex Chiasson, Milan Michalek into a year-older Milan Michalek, and Ales Hemsky into unneeded cap space.
In early February, this team was 14 points out of the playoffs, with a 2-4% chance of making the playoffs depending on your source.