Why the Sens will win it all - Sporting News

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NHL PREVIEW: Why Ottawa will win it all
BY KARA YORIO
Sep. 29, 2003 12:39 p.m.

The Red Wings are the easy Stanley Cup pick for anyone who puts stock in the return of the Dominator behind a great defense. And who could argue with picking the Avalanche, now that it boasts such a potent offense? Another good pick would be the Devils, the defending Stanley Cup champions who have the best goaltender, Martin Brodeur, in the game.

But we're picking the Senators, an explosive team, to lift the Cup when the season is all said and done, just as their ancestors, the Ottawa Silver Seven, did four times and the original Ottawa Senators did seven times in pro hockey's early days.

"They're a young team, and they are only going to get better," Devils defenseman Scott Niedermayer says.

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All the experts appear to be singling out Ottawa and Colorado for the next SC champion along with a few votes here and there for Detroit in the articles I've been reading lately.

All the experts appear to be singling out Ottawa and Colorado for the next SC champion along with a few votes here and there for Detroit in the articles I've been reading lately.

Y'know what's funny? Every other team that ever wins the cup, is always picked by the mags to repeat the next year. After Dallas won the cup, that summer's magazines all said "Dallas will repeat". Ditto for Detroit and Colorado and even dating back to 1994, the Rangers. But every time the Devils won the cup, the magazines *never* picked a repeat.

Well, I guess they haven't been wrong about that yet. But it does seem odd, that every other team is invariably picked to repeat, and the Devils never are.

Kara Yorio is quickly becoming one of my least favorite hockey writers...

Kara Yorio is quickly becoming one of my least favorite hockey writers...

By far the worst Kara Yorio article was the one where she claimed Brodeur would be upset at Hasek returning to the NHL because it would mean people not thinking Brodeur is the best. What a laugh(and not in a good way).