Asked what he will remember about this series, Green chose the what-ifs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Game 2, you can say (we) could\u2019ve won or should\u2019ve won,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe had lots of chances to win. Having \u2018Sandy\u2019 and Zub, would have been a world of difference. I think we were definitely the underdog going into this series, but I felt like if we were healthy \u2026 A lot of ifs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ullmark played to a .932 save percentage across four games. The Senators penalty kill finished at a robust 86.7 percent, allowing two goals in 15 chances. There were things to like, for sure, but not enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, on paper, it is 4-0, but it felt a lot closer,\u201d said Batherson, who led the team with three goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking,\u201d Tkachuk said, finishing the hat trick of sorrow. \u201cYou come in and you just want to win a Stanley Cup, and everyone believed that in here.\u201d<\/p>\n
It can\u2019t happen now, not this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ottawa players will have exit meetings and clean out their lockers Monday, retreating to their homes to process the pain and disappointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carolina jetted home awaiting its second-round opponent, still alive in the chase for its dream.<\/p>\n
The Senators will have to live with the regrets, the what-ifs and the heartbreak.<\/p>\n
The solace, when it is found, is that the painful lessons sustained Saturday could lead to brighter days in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have taken a lot of steps this year to really having a lot of belief that we\u2019re a lot closer than we were to hopefully competing for a Stanley Cup,\u201d Green said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re here for. You don\u2019t say that very often when you lose 4-0.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked what he will remember about this series, Green chose the what-ifs. \u201cI thought Game 2, you can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-606944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}