Grab Bag: World Cup pros and cons, when a streak isn’t a streak and Rick Bowness bites his tongue

In the Friday Grab Bag:
- The pros and cons of holding another World Cup of Hockey
- A debate about losing streaks
- An obscure player who did not qualify for this week's Team Brother roster
- The three comedy stars
- And a YouTube clip of Rick Bowness trying very hard not to say what he really wants to say

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Grab Bag: An important word about pajamas

In the Friday Grab Bag:
- I wrote a bunch of jokes about players on the trade block, and miraculously none of them got traded overnight to ruin it
- An important word to Islander fans about calling John Tavares Pajama Boy
- An obscure player who Don Cherry is mad at or something?
- The week's three comedy stars, featuring a lot more poop than usual
- And a YouTube look back at a distant past in which the Senators were cheap, losing players and facing arena delays. Sure glad those days are over!

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Grab Bag: An Ottawa Senators origin story

In a special Thursday edition of the Friday Grab Bag:
- The Stanley Cup playoffs have been completely unpredictable. But is that good?
- Just touch the damn conference trophy, guys
- A special World Championships edition of the three comedy stars
- An obscure player who lived out Phil Kessel's dream
- And a look back at where the Senators began: tanking games under a football stadium so they could build the franchise around a legendary bust

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