A couple of weeks ago, an exasperated Senators fan probably asked, “How could this season get any worse?”
It’s one thing for the team to be stuck in that zone in which they’ve not only been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs but also have incredibly long odds of moving up in the draft and procuring the kind of high-end talent that this organization desperately needs an infusion of.
It’s another to see Erik Karlsson not only lead the league in assists and project to finish in the top-five in league scoring. He would the first defenceman to accomplish the feat since the 1985-86 season.