Editorial: Ottawa Senators are now selling hope

It’s hard to be an Ottawa Senators fan today, following the soul-crushing trade of Erik Karlsson. Is all hope lost? Let’s recap and assess.
After an exciting, expectation-raising playoff run in 2017, the Sens had plunged to 30th of 31 teams by the end of the 2018 run. Karlsson had delivered, by his standards, a lacklustre season. Relations between captain and coach were said to be tense. Then tragedy hit the Karlssons as their son was stillborn, and Ottawans learned that Melinda Karl