Remember Jersey?

Four years ago the Senators gave the New Jersey Devils a 3-1 head start in the Eastern Conference Finals. They won game five at home and then took game six in New Jersey to force a seventh and deciding game.

I completely forgot about that! Sure, I remember being in the stands and watching my Stanley Cup Finals dream die in the final minutes of the game... but the fact that I was sitting there - minutes from the Finals - was remarkable in and of itself.

If we did it then, we certainly can do it again. The Senators need to dig themselves out of a rather big hole, but they've done it before. Hopefully that experience (digging out of the hole) was a learning experience, and if it happens again, they can use that experience to overcome that one last little thing they didn't do in '03 - finish the opposition off and win that seventh game.

Only this year, winning that seventh game wins us the holy grail of the National Hockey League.

The first step is playing three solid periods and winning tonight's game... here's hoping!