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A gong show, a high-wire act, a house of cards ready to fall.

Pick just about any expression you want to describe the sad, sorry state of the Ottawa Senators. Chances are it has been uttered somewhere else around the NHL.

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“They’re the laughing stock of the league,” Ray Ferraro, the best TV colour commentator in the business, told a Vancouver radio station earlier this week. “There’s nobody more comical, in a sad way, than Ottawa is now.”

Owner Eugene Melnyk can wail against his perceptions of negative media all he wants, but Ferraro simply went public with the general consensus.

You rub your eyes and wonder how could all this possibly be happening to the same team, a cloud that gets darker by the day.

From the ugliness of the Melinda versus Monika cyber-bullying saga to the harassment allegations against assistant general manager Randy Lee in Buffalo to Melnyk’s shrinking front office to the continued uncertainty surrounding the LeBreton Flats arena project, it’s a tire fire out of control.