At least Heatley will be getting to the first round

The tulmultuous ordeal of the Dany Heatley wanting out of Ottawa is finally laid to rest and not a moment too soon. It has dominated the watercoolers around Ottawa since day one when it broke to the media that Dany Heatley wanted out. Unfortunately this saga became way too personal and things were brought up about Heatley (the Danny Snyder incident) that really weren’t called for but I guess that is the price you pay these days when a player of Dany Heatley’s calibre all-of-a-sudden wants out of a Canadian city.

The Sharks should once again be a dominate team in the West during the regular season but what will happen once the playoffs roll around? Dany Heatley is not known to be the kind of player that steps up his game come playoff time and is a plyer that tends to shy away from the traffic areas and physical confrontation. All in all do the Sharks really need another player that is NOT playoff material? Time will tell I guess.

As for the hometown Senators, well…they could’ve done far worse than Michalek and Cheechoo, especially if Cheechoo can regain his form from the 2005-2006 season which seen Johnathan score 56 goals enroute to the Maurice “Rocket” Richard trophy.
Michalek is a player with blinding speed with a good set of hands but is yet another player that does not perform well come playoff time. He has all the tools you look for in a player but has yet to reach the next plateau, a 20-25 goal scorer but with his ability should be more of a 30-35 goal scorer which should be interesting if he is on a line with Kovalev for it definitely could be a great line, but then again it might become a “boulevard of broken dreams”. Once again, time will tell is this actually helps the Sens.

Phew