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Ottawa’s “Death Spiral”
by Alanah McGinley on 04/06/11 at 12:13 PM ET
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Some quotes from Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, speaking yesterday on Toronto Fan590. From Chris Nichols at Sportsnet.ca :
“I’ve been thinking about this since the beginning of the year, since things started going south for us,” said Melnyk, who will be in Ottawa Thursday for the final regular-season home game, against the Montreal Canadiens.
“I thought that on paper, we had a team that would easily go into the playoffs, the discussion was how deep would we go.
“Something went terribly wrong. To pinpoint that on one thing is impossible. I’ve lost sleep. Bryan has lost sleep and Cory has lost sleep. There’s not one thing you can point to say: ‘A-ha, this is what happened.’ It was the perfect storm, everything that could go wrong did.” [...]
“It was really tough. It’s unbearable to finally admit you’re a loser,” said Melnyk. “Once you are in that death spiral, it’s over. One month before the trade deadline, we decided we’ve got to pack it in and rebuild.
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