Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic: Was told on Monday that Ottawa Senators forward Claude Giroux wants to play another season. The 38-year-old and is a pending UFA.
On March 6, the Senators were sitting four points out of the second wildcard spot with 21 games remaining to try and make up the gap. To that end, Steve
In today’s (May 26) Canadian Daily Rumours roundup, I’m looking at three quick Canadian rumours: Will the Senators re-sign Claude Giroux for another year as practical veteran help for a young team?
It’s been a month since the Ottawa Senators were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Carolina Hurricanes. It was a disastrous series for Ottawa’s two star forwards Brady Tkachuk and Tim Stutzle, who combined for just one assist.
How many of the active NHL players with at least 300 goals in their career can you name in six minutes?
Veteran scorer Claude Giroux will not hang up his skates for at least one more season, reports Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic. According to LeBrun, Giroux
There have been successful rookie seasons in NHL history, and there have been superior efforts worth celebrating time and time again. Here's our list of the 25 notable seasons from those with official rookie status, as deemed by the NHL, in reverse chronological order.
According to Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic, Ottawa Senators veteran forward Claude Giroux needed some time after the season to mull over his future. He’s a pending UFA, winding down his career and playing on a team that has started to make a push, but isn’t quite there yet.
With the 2026 NHL Draft just over a month away, the Ottawa Senators will be set to add to their prospect pool and select who they hope to be the next wave of young blood. It’s an exciting time for all 32 teams.
This is a different kind of offseason for Steve Staios. The past two summers, his main challenge was to improve the Ottawa Senators from a 26th-place finish in 2024 to playoff appearances in two consecutive seasons, despite a relative lack of tradeable assets and cap space.
There’s a really interesting tension building around the Ottawa Senators’ blue line right now, and it basically comes down to one question: do they still need to go out and get help, or are they finally at the point where internal growth has to be trusted?
'That is well said,' replied Candide, 'but we must cultivate our garden.' -Voltaire I've said it before but I'll say it one more time just for emphasis, the Ottawa Senators are just too good of a hockey team.
The Ottawa Senators are seeking stability behind Linus Ullmark heading into the 2026-27 campaign, and it’s expected the organization will explore multiple options between the pipes this summer.
Staff Grade: B+; Reader Grade: B+ Dylan Cozens has come as advertised: hardworking and unwilling to take a night off. Readers and staff alike agree that, despite playing second- or third-line duties, he consistently finds ways to produce offensively.
While free agency is still more than a month away, that isn’t stopping teams from starting to put together their offseason wish lists. To that end, an
Lucas Beckman didn’t exactly start the season looking like a breakout story. With Baie-Comeau, the numbers were rough on the surface — a 4-14-3 record that didn’t jump off the page in a good way.
The offseason goalie market is beginning to take shape, and according to Bruce Garrioch, the Ottawa Senators are expected to be active in searching for a dependable backup behind Linus Ullmark.
On Canada day last year, Nick Cousins re-signed with the Ottawa Senators for one year and $825,000, a perfectly acceptable number for a player who had been an adequate fourth liner the year before.
It’s funny how hockey works sometimes. A guy comes in quietly, no fanfare, no long-term expectations, and suddenly he’s part of the reason a team feels a lot more solid than anyone predicted.
Linus Ullmark’s postseason might end up being one of those rare cases where the numbers tell a very different story than the results. Because if you just look at the standings, it’s easy to assume the Ottawa Senators were outplayed across the board in their four-game sweep at the hands of Carolina.
It’s been nearly a month since the Ottawa Senators fell to the Carolina Hurricanes in four games. It was a disappointing end to a frustrating season that saw the team struggle when they were expected to thrive, and their best players stumble when they were needed the most.
One of the primary offseason objectives of the Ottawa Senators’ hockey operations department will be to secure the services of “a big defenceman who can play big minutes,” Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen reported last week.
For a long time, the Ottawa Senators were struggling to find their core to build around, but over the past few seasons, that has clearly become a problem of the past.
Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen: It’s believed that Ottawa Senators GM Steve Staios was meeting with forward Brady Tkachuk on Monday to go over the season and what the team could be looking to do this offseason.
A young prospect is going to stay near the nation’s capital for the next couple of years. On Tuesday, Ottawa Senators general manager Steve Staios announced that the team has re-signed forward Stephen Halliday to a two-year contract extension.
After the Ottawa Senators dropped their first-round playoff series, losing 4-2 on April 25th to complete the four-game sweep they suffered at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes, they’ll have to wait approximately five and half months for the start of the 2026-27 regular season.
A big reason why the Carolina Hurricanes have yet to lose a game throughout this postseason, Logan Stankoven extended his goal streak on Saturday night.
Julian MacKenzie of The Athletic: Ottawa Senators GM Steve Staios may not feel that he needs to do anything drastic to improve the team, except if Brady Tkachuk changes his mind about the team.
Ottawa Senators left winger Brady Tkachuk could use a change of scenery after laying an egg in a first-round Stanley Cup playoffs loss to the Carolina
The NHL's Department of Player Safety set a hearing for May 4 to address Ottawa Senators forward Ridly Greig's sucker punch of an opponent. The department's announcement Tuesday did not describe it as an in-person hearing, which would be necessary to issue a suspension longer than five games.
With their 4-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, the Ottawa Senators were eliminated from the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs in a four-game sweep that turned out to be an absolutely disastrous showing by the team's best players.
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