OTTAWA -- Canada's capital had been blessed, if you can call it that, with a boring hockey team, badly banged up, and yet, somehow, the backward-skating Senators had eked their way to the Eastern Conference final.
After two punishing series against the Blue Jackets and Capitals, the matchup couldn't have looked more forgiving, never mind favorable, for the far more skilled Penguins.
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