Sens Fans Learn Not to Panic; Faithful Now Know a Game 1 Loss Isn't the End of Their Playoff World

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Remember when the Senators lost their Stanley Cup playoff opener 3-0 to the New York Islanders in 2003 after winning the President's Trophy as the NHL's top regular-season club?

"People would have been calling it a great game to remember, but now it blows," said Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson. "That's just the way it is. At this time of year, you have to find ways to win."

"We play a pressure game now, a skating game," Alfredsson said. "We generate more chances it's much more aggressive." And also more risky.

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Sens Fans Learn Not to Panic; Faithful Now Know a Game 1 Loss Isn't the End of Their Playoff World

By Wayne Scanlan

OTTAWA Maybe Ottawa is growing up as a National Hockey League city.

Or maybe it's because most of the local talk-radio shows take the weekend off. Fans had to take out their frus...

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