The way they are playing now is not smart. Don’t get fooled by the wins these days. If looking at it carefully, you will see that all the wins came from the teams that either have been out of playoff or the teams that only played for not getting hurt since they had been locked in, while the loss from the desperate teams such as Leafs, Cans and Rangers. It tells you that the Sens is not that good yet.
Strategically, Sens should have played hard and lost enough (those meaningless) games to stay at bottom 3 of the league. This will guarantee Sens to get one of the top three draft-picks this summer. Unfortunately, they have blown out the opportunity. You have to know that the forth pick and down this year presents a big drop-off from top three in term of talent level. Sally, it’s too late now. I bet that no teams currently stay lower than Sens will bravely win any game to surpass Sens in ranking, because they know what they doing.