Senators Banking on a Better Phaneuf in Reduced Role
With five points standing between them and an Eastern Conference wild card spot, the Ottawa Senators decided some help was needed after all. The Senators pulled off a monster nine-player deal on...
View ArticleAging, Point Production, and Bobby Ryan
Aging curves are an interesting topic to discuss, especially in today’s NHL. Despite the apparent focus on getting younger and concentrating more on speed and youth, veterans such as Jaromir Jagr,...
View ArticleSenators Shouldn’t Expect Another Miracle Run
The Ottawa Senators shocked the hockey world last year by making the playoffs seemingly out of nowhere. Goalie Andrew Hammond became one of the NHL’s darlings, going 20-1-2 and leading the team to an...
View ArticleEvaluating Senators’ sophomores: Stone, Hoffman, Hammond
At this time last year, nobody was talking about the Ottawa Senators. They looked like any other team bound to finish out of playoff contention and with an early-to-mid first-round pick. A month and a...
View ArticleDoes Erik Karlsson really need to be more defensively responsible?
Thursday morning, Elliotte Friedman made some remarks on Toronto’s Sportsnet 590 about likely Norris candidate, Erik Karlsson, and how he needs to set an example defensively as captain of the Ottawa...
View ArticleColumn: Owner Melnyk deluded about state of Senators
The Ottawa Senators are one of the few NHL teams that operates on an internal budget, with owner Eugene Melnyk working to save money when it comes to player spending, and still win hockey games. Not...
View ArticleThe mystery of the Senators’ strange penalty kill
The Ottawa Senators’ penalty kill is a mess. Truthfully, their penalty kill isn’t alone in that distinction, as the team as a whole has been mediocre at best in 2015-16. With a handful of games...
View ArticleEvaluating Senators’ Mike Hoffman conundrum
The Ottawa Senators will not be making the 2016 NHL playoffs. There are plenty of reasons for this (with the main one being that ownership and management are bad judges of talent), which will surely be...
View ArticlePierre Dorion has plenty of work to do with Senators
The Ottawa Senators have missed the playoffs twice in the last three years. They’ve won just one playoff series since appearing in the Stanley Cup Final in 2006-07 and haven’t finished higher than...
View ArticleColumn: Senators need stability behind the bench
When teams fail to live up to expectations, heads roll. That’s the reality of working in professional sports, and that’s the reality that now former Ottawa Senators head coach Dave Cameron was faced...
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