"By now, Pascal Leclaire doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Senator Fan doesn't know whether to cry or scream.

This season was supposed to be different. This was the season Leclaire would shake the handle of Hapless Harry. He would stay healthy, assume the No. 1 goaltending job that was supposed to be his when the Ottawa Senators traded for him in February, 2009. He would earn a little of that coin -- $4.8 million U.S. in 2010-11, the final year of the three-year deal he signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets -- that puts him only behind the Senators big-money boys named Spezza, Alfredsson, Gonchar and Kovalev.

When the Senators traded for Leclaire, the book on him was talented goalie, injury prone. No kidding. No need for your ace NHL scout. Anyone with Leclaire's career log in hand could have written that "book." When he arrived here, Leclaire was still rehabbing an ankle that required surgery in early 2009. This was after he missed 13 games because of injury in 2007-08, more than half the season because of injury in 2006-07 and fourth months of the American Hockey League season in Syracuse in 2004-05."