NHL post-season bringing the drama

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images Here’s one for the water cooler – what sort of grade would you give for this year’s NHL playoffs? If you’re a fan of tight hockey and biting your nails, give it a solid A. The numbers simply say as much. Here we sit

Karlsson’s return trip anything but joyous

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images I think for all the parties involved, the day they were looking most forward to was Sunday. Not Saturday. Be it Erik Karlsson or Pierre Dorion or Chris Tierney or Pete DeBoer or Guy Boucher, to a man, getting this circus out of town and

Senators can’t stop the onslaught

 Photo credit: NHLI via Getty Images The Buffalo Bills can’t seem to score touchdowns. No problem for the Buffalo Sabres though. (Plus a two-point conversion). That 9-2 pounding by Buffalo’s hockey team on the foreheads of the Ottawa Senators Saturday afternoon represented a very low point in what – to this

Senators: They can’t be this bad again, right?

 Photo courtesy of NHLI via Getty Images Is it time for the Ottawa Senators to finally turn the page on what can only be hailed as a year-long tire-fire? Well, duh. Face it, if this bad juju keeps going, we’re talking Harold-Ballard-era material in spades. Yup, it has been that

Toronto adds while Ottawa – apparently – set to subtract

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images So, how was your weekend? If you’re the Toronto Maple Leafs, not too bad. With the signing of John Tavares, the Leafs might not be a certainty for a Stanley Cup, but they’ve sure put themselves in a solid position to compete for the

Ottawa Senators sinking like the Titanic

 I remember the day clearly. When polishing up the season synopsis of the Ottawa Senators on the ice (back in early April), the thought that this was definitively the worst year in franchise history was right there, smack-dab on the page. Justifiable. The team that came within a Chris Kunitz