Ottawa: a tale of two teams

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The Ottawa Lynx have been up and down this season, although mostly down. Having finished last in the standings, Ottawa had to face Saskatoon in the wild card round for a chance to get into the proper playoffs, and based on the regular season, Ottawa would be expected to lose. However, this is a team whose entire roster was essentially overhauled at the deadline and later, except for two key players (Ambrose Charizard and Arbin Asipi). The Vilhjalmsson triplets, who were most of the team before the deadline, were sent to Vegas for a handful of journeyman players, the best of which is Corey Guimond although Mikka Toivonen has had a decent showing as well. One of the players who'd been playing defense for Ottawa, Zach Weise, went to Yukon for a draft pick. Then, after the deadline, it's as though the floodgates opened. New rookies kept coming to Ottawa for a healthy dose of playing time (although it took Marvin Harding some time to appear on the eligible roster). Samuel Gate gave the team a real defenseman to rely on, and Mikhail Vega and Marvin Harding filled out a line alongside Charizard, allowing Guimond and Toivonen (along with Longrod von Danglecoch, one of the original Lynx from the beginning of the season) to slide down the lines a bit and give the team depth. A team devoid of players suddenly wasn't, and with the filling of the roster came a sense of the unknown. No one could really be sure what this team would do in the playoffs. The wild card round ended pretty favorably for Ottawa as they took out Saskatoon in two straight games. Next up is Yukon, the team that won the regular season, and presumably that's a bridge too far for this team no matter how revamped they are - or is it?

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