By the time the puck drops Tuesday night in Toronto, we'll know who will occupy the halls of political power in Ottawa for the next four years.
The hockey team based in the nation's capital, however, aims to throw a whole lot more uncertainty into the Battle of Ontario in Game 5.
And if those Ottawa Senators can get the special teams and goaltending they got in Game 4, they might just be able to do it against the Toronto Maple Leafs. In Games 1, 2 and 3, the Senators didn't get enough of either. They didn't get the bounces, either. But finally in Game 4, they were on the positive side of all those ledgers.
So now they try to do it again on the road. If they do, well, the ghosts of collapses past will most certainly rear their heads for the Maple Leafs. There is no way they want any part of going back to Ottawa for Game 6.
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