S5 - Episode 28: Finally! The Finale!

Sorry we made you wait so long for the last show of season 5 but here it is. Seemed a little strange looking back at how the Sens bowed out to the Pens on the very same night Pittsburgh was gagging on a boat load of Halak. Hockey is a weird game sometimes.

This being the season ender, we of course look back at the final two games of the series:

Sens 4 - Pens 3 3rd OT
Pens 4 - Sens 3 OT

What a wringer they put us through in those last two contests. The game five, 3 OT win might have been one of the greatest Senators games of all time, led by an unlikely hero in Pascal Leclaire. To think that he could come in cold and pull a performance like that out of his ass after the season he had, well it was nothing short of awesome. And the boys gave it a hell of a run in game six too but they just came up short in OT.

Once the pain faded a little, it seems most Sens fans can look back at the year as a whole and see it as a good healing experience from the past few seasons that saw the franchise come so unglued. That is a success in our books. It was an up and down season for the Sens and the final series was much like the season as a whole. We talk at length on all these points and yes, Shredder gets his love for standing by Leclaire through it all but not without Russell poking him a few more times, just to spice up the show.

Also touched on are Clouston's coaching performance, Spezza's unhappiness with the fans and media, the possible future for Jason in Ottawa, some of the changes we are likely to see on this team coming up this summer, the injuries revealed by the team, the new standard in bad officiating being set this play-off season and a truckload of e-mails and voice mails from the Groundhogs. Oh, and a re-cap of the legendary weekend in NYC for Stooli's wedding.

Once again, we say to you from the bottom of our all-red hearts, thank you so much for being a part of our little world here in the Underground. Five seasons have come and gone since we first hatched this egg of ours and to see what it has grown into is truly amazing. Some of you have been with us since day one, some of you are new to the show. Either way, you have become friends to us and the podcast would be pointless without you. We put a lot of time and effort into the show and we are thrilled that you enjoy it and that's what keeps us going. If we helped to make your year following the Senators more entertaining, then that is reward enough. We can assure you, you make it better for us. 

Until we meet again, SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM!

S5 - Episode 28: Finally! The Finale!