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So, you’ve just arrived back from your annual trip to the moon.

You’re checking the Senators’ statistics for the first time all season. A number of things jump out at you.

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Foremost among them: Who is this Mike Condon person and how is it that he has played nearly as many games as starter Craig Anderson? The first consideration — Anderson must be injured. Condon was picked up on an emergency basis and somehow wrestled the backup-turned-starter job from Andrew Hammond.

The real story, no one could have foreseen.

No one imagined Anderson’s wife, Nicholle, would be diagnosed with a rare form of throat cancer, requiring Craig to be away from the team for prolonged periods. A glance at Anderson’s statistics — a 12-6-1 record with a 2.46 goals-against and .924 save percentage — would tell any recent arrival to the scene that he certainly didn’t get replaced due to a performance issue.

The biggest wonder of the pre-Christmas stats — Condon with 12 games played, a record of 6-3-2, goals-against 2.32 and save percentage of .922. Those 14 points gained in games either started or finished by Condon have been huge in the Senators’ drive to second place in the Atlantic Division with 39 points in 32 games. Happy holidays are in store.