Four games into the regular season and already the Senators find themselves out of the post season. Or at least that would be the case if an NHL regular season was the same length as an NFL regular season, fortunately, it's not.
The reality is, despite the Senators bumbling 1-2-1 start, they find themselves in a pack of teams they also hope to be in come the end of the regular season. For the most part, the teams tagged as legitimate post season contenders, have gotten off to poor starts, while many of those not expected to see post season play have leapt out of the gate.
This leaves only two possibilities; The pundits got it all wrong or, statistically, three, four or five games is not a large enough sample size from which to alter any long term projections.
To look at the Eastern Conference standings as of today, the playoff picture has first place Toronto facing off against the Islanders, Lighting vs Thrashers, Philly facing Carolina and Alexander Ovechkin's fourth place Caps squaring off with fifth place Montreal.
Outside looking in are the Pens, Rangers, Sens, Sabres, Devils, Boston and last place Florida.
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