The Ottawa Senators are halfway through the season, and at some point, fans will have to accept that the team is exactly what the numbers say it is. After 41 games, the numbers say that the team is, at best, run-of-the-mill.
The Ottawa Senators made a goaltending change ahead of their upcoming road trip. Mads Søgaard was recalled from the Belleville Senators, while Hunter Shepard was sent down to the AHL affiliate to make room on the roster.
The Senators have recalled goaltender Mads Søgaard from AHL Belleville, per a team announcement. He replaces Hunter Shepard, who was reassigned to Belleville in the corresponding move, as Ottawa’s interim No.
With the holiday break, the BSens only played four games in the last two weeks, going a measly 1-3-0. They haven’t been the beneficiaries of a New Coach Bump™ as Andrew Campbell falls to 2-5-0 in his early coaching career.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
With the Atlantic Division as tight as it is the Senators couldn't afford to let this one slip away. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. They came out flying, drawing a power play less than a minute into the game when Marco Kasper tripped Brady Tkachuk.
It isn’t time for the Ottawa Senators and head coach Travis Green to start panicking just yet. Green’s team sits last in the Atlantic Division standings, but just two points stand between them and the fourth-place team in the division.
From the outside, it was easy to reduce Saturday night’s incident to a single clip — a punch thrown, a player caught off guard, and a suspension handed down.
Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk addressed Saturday’s heated incident with the Winnipeg Jets for the first time on Monday. Tkachuk was involved in a controversial moment during Ottawa’s 4–2 win, when Jets defenseman Logan Stanley punched him from behind after a board-side collision.
Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen: The Ottawa Senators don’t know when goaltender Linus Ullmark will return from his leave of absence, and they won’t be commenting on the situation, according to GM Steve Staois.
Brady Tkachuk took a sucker punch to the face Saturday night in Winnipeg, and the call that followed didn’t really reflect what everyone just saw. Two minutes.
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Thomas Chabot scored twice as the host Ottawa Senators defeated the visiting Winnipeg Jets 4-2 on Saturday night, lengthening Winnipeg's winless skid to nine games.
Ottawa Senators forward Brady Tkachuk was victimized by a punch he did not see coming during the second period of Saturday night’s game against the Winnipeg Jets.
When Steve Staios says he has “full faith” in his goaltending, it’s worth slowing down and listening to how he says it, not just what the words are. General managers don’t choose that phrase by accident.
Not even two days since writing 2000-plus words, catching up on all the news and storylines from the Kitchener Rangers since coming back from the holiday break less than a week ago, we have another bombshell that makes things quite interesting ahead of the Ontario Hockey League’s (OHL) trade deadline coming on Jan.
Sorry to break the news, but today’s matchup is a pair of divisional basement dwellers. This Saturday edition of NHL Predictions, presented by us here at Last Word On Hockey is between the Winnipeg Jets and the Ottawa Senators.
Fabian Zetterlund scored with 2:22 remaining to lift the host Ottawa Senators to a 4-3 win against the Washington Capitals on Thursday. Zetterlund scored on a one-timer from just below the left hash marks after receiving a backhand pass from Thomas Chabot on the rush, shortly after Aliaksei Protas had tied the game for Washington.
The Ottawa Senators will be without Linus Ullmark for the immediate future after announcing Sunday that the veteran goaltender will be taking a leave of absence from the team for personal reasons.
Senators forward Claude Giroux has been playing in the NHL for quite some time now as he is 37 years old and is still going strong. And when he gets set to take the ice against the rival Toronto Maple Leafs, he will be hitting a career milestone.
Ottawa Senators defenseman Tyler Kleven left Saturday’s 6-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks with a lower-body injury and did not return. Kleven went to the dressing room after he pinched deep into the offensive zone and fell awkwardly in the corner.
Ottawa Senators’ defenseman Thomas Chabot is expected to return to the lineup for their game on Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks, according to Ottawa Citizen reporter Bruce Garrioch.