The Illusion of Effort
The NHL is a league of have and have nots. Some teams haven’t the financial capacity to keep up with their competitors in the annual free agency drive. This can…
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Signing Bobby Ryan: No Easy Task for Senators
It’s nervous times in the nation’s capital. At the start of the month, after a long summer of guessing games, Bobby Ryan gave Senators fans some insight on what the plan…
Can the Ottawa Senators Afford to Re-sign Bobby Ryan?
At the age of 27, Ottawa Senators forward Bobby Ryan has long been considered a premier player in the National Hockey League. Having posted four 30-goal seasons by the age of…
Connor McDavid Could Be the Senators’ Only Hope
Why Sens Fans Should Buy into the Connor McDavid Hype No fan should ever openly wish for their team to tank in order to land a high draft pick and…
Milbury, Melnyk, and Brennan Owe Matt Cooke an Apology
On March 20th, 2011 in a game against the New York Rangers, Matt Cooke delivered a cheap elbow to the head of Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh. Cooke was quickly suspended…
Will the Ottawa Senators Go Bertuzzi on Matt Cooke?
Should Matt Cooke play against the Ottawa Senators Monday night at Scotia Bank Place? The Pittsburgh Penguins will be facing off against the Senators for the first time since Cooke…
Sens and Sensibility: CSI Ottawa
Senators owner Eugene Melnyk may have just become my favorite person in the hockey world. Melnyk had a thing or two to say about Matt Cooke, the Pittsburgh Penguins forward…
How About PK Subban in a Senators Jersey?
I posted the following tweet this morning, and the more I think about it, the more the idea makes sense: https://twitter.com/iancmclaren/status/276697743752314880 Entering into what will hopefully be a 2012-13 NHL…
Eugene Melnyk: “We Should Be Playing Hockey”
written by Ian C McLaren Last week, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk responded to a claim made on the Fan 590 in Toronto by saying there was “no chance” that…
Senators’ Eugene Melnyk on Hockey and the Lockout
One fear relating the lockout between the NHL and the Players’ Association is what comes after the resolution. The NHL is in its second lockout in seven years (third work…
Eugene Melnyk Pulls a Reverse Taylor Swift
written by Ian C McLaren With another section of the 2012-13 NHL schedule facing imminent cancellation, and the league as a whole possibly looking at irreparable damage as a result,…
5 Predictions for the 2011-2012 Ottawa Senators
With NHL training camps opening in less than a month, the thoughts of puck heads turn to all matters icebound. The local magazine racks are rifled in search of the…