In Defense of Alex Chiasson
Alex Chiasson hasn’t exactly endeared himself to the Ottawa Senators’ faithful. For proof just look at some of the tweets regarding his arbitration hearing. Alex Chiasson still can't figure out…
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Disappointing Prospects: Senators’ Development Camp Edition
This post is the flip side of last week’s Hope For Ottawa’s Future post. Rather than celebrating the diamond in the rough, late-round draft steal and highlighting clever signings of…
Hope For Ottawa’s Future: Impressive Development Camp Performances
Think that July means no hockey? Think again. While NHL regulars are out on the golf course, spending time with family or naming puppies after their teammates and taking pictures…
Ottawa Draft Round Up: Goodbye Robin Lehner and Eric Gryba
Bryan Murray had a busy and extremely productive 72 hours. Between Thursday morning and Saturday evening he re-signed franchise building blocks Mark Stone and Mika Zibanejad to reasonable deals, solved…
Ottawa Only Has Themselves to Blame for Losing Chris Wideman
Earlier this month Ottawa Senators’ prospect Chris Wideman won the Eddie Shore Award as the AHL’s top defenseman. Yet, despite an incredibly successful season in Binghamton, Wideman is most likely…
Curtis Lazar: A Western Canadian Patrice Bergeron?
That Curtis Lazar has endeared himself to Ottawa fans over the course of the 2014-15 season is incontestable. From eating a hamburger thrown on the ice after a Sens’ win,…
Ottawa Senators Off-Season Game Plan: Forwards
Ottawa’s Off-Season Game Plan in relation to their forward corps can be summed up in the three letters R, F and A; as in restricted free agents. In short, Ottawa has five forwards…
Memorial Cup Madness: Tobias Lindberg Edition
The NHL playoffs are not the only high stakes hockey happening in late May. From May 22nd to 31st, the winners of the OHL, WHL and QJMHL playoffs, plus the…
What Ottawa Fans Can Expect From Matt O’Connor
As if things weren’t crowded enough in Ottawa’s crease, the Senators signed prized college free agent Matt O’Connor to a two-year entry-level deal. O’Connor, who is from Toronto, played the…
Ottawa Senators’ Off-Season Game Plan: Defence
For the casual NHL fan, naming one member of Ottawa’s defence corps is easy. Erik Karlsson is a Norris Trophy winning defender who scored another nomination this year. The challenge to…
Erik Condra a Bargain At $3 Million a Year?
Erik Condra and Free Agency Andrew Hammond and Erik Condra are Ottawa’s two unrestricted free agents this year. I’ve already outlined why Ottawa should allow Hammond to walk, but what about…
Have the Senators Gone From a Goalie Graveyard to a Goalie Factory?
How did this happen exactly? For years Ottawa was a goalie graveyard where once promising starters went to die. As shocking as it seems to Ottawa fans, there was a…