"Now there's something to worry about. A National Hockey League season that had looked so promising is threatening to run right off the rails. The Ottawa Senators lost their second game, 5-1 to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night, and head to Washington for a Monday night game against Alexander Ovechkin and the Capitals. You can't like those odds. Ovechkin might not let them out of town alive. The Senators could easily stumble home 0-3-0 to a city in deep angst. Coach Cory Clouston has a host of concerns to address when the team practises Sunday in the Washington suburbs, including: - how to score more than two goals in two games; - how to get more than 18 shots in a game, which was what they had against the Maple Leafs; - how to stop those big leaks on defence. It would also be nice if Clouston could get his players to give netminder Pascal Leclaire some support. Leclaire kept his teammates close in a 2-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night, and he might have had a chance against the Maple Leafs if the Senators hadn't been so badly outplayed. Right now, though, Leclaire is out there by himself, and that can't be a lot of fun. He ended up facing 38 shots from the Maple Leafs. Clouston was as downcast as he had ever been after a Senators loss. "This was not good enough in any one area," he said. "We just weren't ready to compete," Clouston said. "They wanted it more than we did. They executed a lot better than we did." http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports...ok woeful loss Maple Leafs/3650327/story.html
