Dropping The Puck: The Ottawa Senators

The final team that I will be looking at in the "Dropping The Puck" series is the Ottawa Senators! The Senators have noticeably missed the presence of Daniel Alferedsson since he decided to go to Detroit as a free agent this past summer.  The major attempt that the team made to fill the hole that "Alffy" left was the acquisition of Bobby Ryan from Anaheim, Ryan has had a decent season being second on the team with 26 points in 29 games but those aren't the makings of an "Alffy" type season by any stretch of the imagination.  However, I wouldn't consider this series of events to be a disappointment as there are two other major problems that the Senators have to look at in Karlsson and Anderson.  Karlsson has brought the same problem to the Senators that Subban has brought to Montreal in that he leads the team in points and as I have stated previously, I feel this is a much bigger negative than it is a positive.  The next bone of contention is definitely Anderson, here's a goalie that was arguably in the Vezina conversation last year with the way that he put the team on his back, even took them to the first round of the playoffs, his save percentage this year has dropped to an abysmal 0.897 after his amazing 0.941 last year it has just been unacceptable for the team's success and in some ways has killed them.  The Sens are not a playoff team, just like the other Canadian teams that I have covered in this series and it will be a few years before we see the Cup here in Canada.