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Night by night, NHL teams reveal bits of themselves until a picture comes into focus of who and what they are.

Every season spins a new story, and as they say on those mutual fund disclaimers – past performance is not a guarantee of future returns.

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Game by game, now seven games into their 2014-15 season, we are getting some sense of what the 4-2-1 Ottawa Senators might be. To date: The Senators are a low-scoring, hard-working team that relies too much on its goaltending.

These are still early days, even earlier than they ought to be owing to last Wednesday’s postponement of the Maple Leafs-Senators game (to Nov. 9) which would have provided an interesting divisional comparison of these two teams. Last season, the Senators and Leafs finished four points apart, both of them outside of the playoff group in the Eastern Conference.

With 88 points, the Senators were 11th in the East, five points back of the final spot. While it’s way too early in the season to discuss playoff positioning, Ottawa’s current pace of producing 1.28 points per game would be plenty good enough for solid footing in the east, as it projects to a 105-point season.