The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch in his latest article demonstates, once again, why he is the laughingstock of the hockey media.

His article grades the Ottawa Senators on their seasons individually. When doing this there are two ways to do so. You either grade on their performance or you grade on how they lived up to expectations. I have no idea which Garrioch decided to use.

Care to guess who received the only F from Bruce? His favourite whipping boy, Radek Bonk. Not Patrick Lalime whose brutal play this season cost them first place in the division, a more favourable matchup in the first round plus the two brutal goals in game 7. But the sixth leading scorer on the team who missed 16 games due to injury. While Bonk had far from his best season, he was far from the worst player on the team.

But maybe Bruce was basing his grades upon what was expected of the player? Then why did Lalime only receive a C? Or Antoine Vermette, who wasn't even expected to make the team, received only a C+?

Another confusing grade is the B given to Martin Havlat. He had his best season by far as an Ottawa Senators while averaging a point a game despite missing training camp due to contract negotiations.

If it weren't for the B+ given to Martin Prusek, I'd wonder if Garrioch had a problem with Czechs. Especially because I bet he would have given Rachunek an F as well if he hadn't been traded.

I also can't understand Chris Phillips getting an A while Wade Redden, who had a superior year leading NHL defencemen in goals, gets only a B+.