It's all over but the crying for hapless Senators

OTTAWA - The recent past, present and immediate future are all bleak for the Ottawa Senators, who fired coach Guy Boucher on Friday and replaced him with Marc Crawford.

On their way to missing the Stanley Cup playoffs for the fourth time in six years, the Senators dealt their top three forwards at last week's NHL trade deadline and, despite being dead last in the league, Ottawa has no chance at a top-three pick in the June draft because of a dumb deal last season.

Traded away in the past eight months were All-Star defenseman Erik Karlsson, along with forwards Mike Hoffman, Mark Stone, Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel.