The Ottawa Senators are preparing for their first home game of the season against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday evening. Many fans are excited to get their first taste of the Senators in their own arena, with the team sporting a slightly different look from the last time they played there.
It’s been a busy week for the Ottawa Senators, as they’ve played their first four games of the season since the last edition of Five Thoughts. Their 3-1 record puts them first in the Atlantic, a very solid start considering the injuries they've dealt with and how badly they've played at times.
A sigh of relief in the nation’s capital. Ottawa Senators head coach Travis Green told the media that goaltender Linus Ullmark will return to the net Thursday night, when the team hosts the Philadelphia Flyers.
The news surrounding Linus Ullmark left Ottawa Senators fans with a sunken heart. While the Sens’ starting goalie is officially day-to-day following Monday night’s exit, the prospect of turning to Samuel Ersson did not help fans’ blood pressure.
How many of the 22 players in NHL history with at least 600 career goals can you name in five minutes?
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Throughout his tenure with the Ottawa Senators, head coach Travis Green has been vague when it comes to answering questions about injuries. The league
A couple of key players went down with injuries on Monday night, with their respective clubs holding their breath.
The Ottawa Senators are set to face the Detroit Red Wings tonight in the second half of a back-to-back, after picking up their second win of the season against the Boston Bruins last night.
According to Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen, Linus Ullmark was pulled as a precautionary measure in last night’s 4-1 win over the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.
The Ottawa Senators are facing the possibility of life without their starting goaltender, at least for some time. Due to an undisclosed injury, Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark did not come out for the third periord of Ottawa’s 4-1 road win over the Boston Bruins on Monday.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
I came away from the Ottawa Senators' win over the Toronto Maple Leafs with a thought that had less to do with the Maple Leafs than the Senators. Linus Ullmark looked pretty good.
It’s been a recurring theme of our divisional previews: the NHL often is dictated by goaltending and man, did the Ottawa Senators suffer in this department last season!
There are probably two ways to look at Linus Ullmark's preseason debut for the Ottawa Senators. One is to look at the 4-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs and the 20 saves on 23 shots and say, well, that wasn't exactly what the Senators were hoping to see.
Last season, the Ottawa Senators came dangerously close to beating the two worst single-season NHL team save percentages since 1990, both held by themselves, with a .865 save percentage.
A strong case can be made for Ottawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark to be one of the NHL's most-improved players if he can find consistency in his game and remain healthy throughout the season.
Ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft, the Ottawa Senators acquired the rights to restricted free agent goaltender Samuel Ersson from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a 2027 fifth-round draft pick.
The Ottawa Senators have been searching for stability in goal for a long time. Ever since the days of Craig Anderson, it’s felt like a revolving door back there—different names, different hopes, not much lasting certainty.
The NHL playoff race is coming down to the wire, with several teams in both the East and West battling for the last remaining spots.
The Ottawa Senators are fighting tooth and nail for every point they can get in their push to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That was no different on Saturday afternoon in Tampa Bay against the Lightning, which made it all the more surprising when it was revealed that Linus Ullmark wouldn’t be the starting goalie.
Linus Ullmark’s return to the crease couldn’t have come at a more desperate moment for the Ottawa Senators. They’ve been hanging around the edge of the playoff math all season, never fully in, never fully out.
On Dec. 28, 2025, Ottawa Senators starting goaltender Linus Ullmark would officially begin a leave of absence. The reason, at the time, was unclear.
The onset of anxiety and panic in a Dec. 27 game prompted Ottawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark to take his ongoing personal leave the next day, he told TSN in an interview released Tuesday.
Ottawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark sat down with TSN’s Claire Hanna and discussed his leave of absence from the team. During the full sit-down interview, he addressed the false reports that he had affairs with the wives of some players and that the team was crumbling apart as a result.
Ottawa Senators star Brady Tkachuk had heard enough.
Linus Ullmark and the Ottawa Senators have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately.
With the 2025-26 season approaching quickly, it is time to start looking at what the Ottawa Senators have to work with. They finally made it back to the playoffs, but this season is going to be about building off the success they found last season.
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