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Heading into the Stanley Cup Finals, Senators winger Daniel Alfredsson is, in most people's mind, the front-runner for the Conn Smythe Trophy, given to the League's most valuable playoff performer. Consider that Alfredsson currently leads the playoffs in goals scored (10), game-winning goals (4) and power play goals (4), is fourth in the League in points, sixth in plus/minus and third in shots on goal -- not bad for a guy who fans and the media were ready to run out of town on a rail at this time last year.
Want more numbers? Here are some that aren't quite as sexy as goals scored, but help to tell the story of what Alfredsson has meant to the Senators during this run to the Finals. He's sixteenth among forwards in hits, twenty-first in blocked shots,second in takeaways and has a 2.7 takeaway-to-giveaway ratio (to put that number in perspective, Jaromir Jagr's regular season ratio was 0.42). To top it all off, he has scored the series-clinching goals in the last two series (most recently in overtime against the Sabres).
It's safe to say that as Daniel Alfredsson goes, so go the Ottawa Senators. During the regular season, he averaged 1.3 points per game in the 47 Senator wins in which he played and .87 points per game in 30 Ottawa losses (the team won only one of five games with their Swedish captain out of the lineup), and since entering the League with the Sens back in 1995, he has scored 1.27 points per game in wins and just .63 in losses. To wit, in the Eastern Conference Finals, Alfredsson was held off the scoresheet in only one game -- Ottawa's one loss.
Prior to this year, however, Alfredsson's game had tended to desert him come playoff time. In last year's second round series loss to Buffalo, Alfredsson had only one goal in five games. When Toronto eliminated the Senators in the Spring of 2004, Alfredsson had only one goal and a pair of helpers in the seven game series. The year before that he managed only a single assist in a seven game series loss to New Jersey.
You get the point -- Daniel Alfredsson is the straw that stirs the drink in Canada's capital city, and it's hard to imagine the Sens lifting the Cup without their captain continuing his dominating play. Right now, he's enjoying a storybook run. Stay tuned to see how the story ends.
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