We Need to Talk About Chris Kelly and Tom Pyatt

I've said it for years now, and for the Ottawa Senators, this still rings true: they aren't a very deep team. It's obvious how thin they are when they essentially forced to play two players in particular: Chris Kelly and Tom Pyatt. I'm not going to take a long-winded road to get to my point here, I'm just going to say that Kelly and Pyatt have not been NHL-calibre players this season. That's a real problem for a team that does not have many alternatives, because it is not as simple as scratching them and putting in a different player.

In the summer, Kelly seemed like a decent signing who would be good enough, but not anything spectacular on the fourth line. I was fine with the move, besides…