Still enjoying the season so far, Ottawa Senator fan?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty (Andre Ringuette) Still enjoying the season so far, Ottawa Senator fan? Quite the capper rolled in Friday evening when deputy commissioner Bill Daly revealed

Loaded draft table awaits Ottawa

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty  It’s been a fairly compelling first round in the National Hockey League playoffs. Though some things prove to be more compelling, or thought-jogging,

Senator town hall meetings fail to provide much as playoffs push on for others

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty (Andre Ringuette) So, your team is out of the playoffs, what are you going to do with all this sudden free time? Reminisce? Pontificate

No surprises here: Sens fail to make the grade

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty (Andre Ringuette) “Wait ‘till your father gets home!” Yup, it’s one of those report cards – the ones you’d attempt to shield from your

Any Building Plan Starts with Karlsson

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty (Andre Ringuette) Given the context, you can label this one as absolutely the worst season on and off the ice in Ottawa Senator history.

Semi-centennial Seats: The Story of Marilyn and Mavis

 Photos and video by Amanda and Brittany van Frankfoort In the first row of Section 15 at TD Place Arena sit best friends Marilyn Campbell, 77, and Mavis Morgan, 85, Ottawa 67’s season ticket holders of 50-years. Together they have seen more than 100,000 minutes of Ottawa 67’s regulation hockey

Predictions is a fool’s game?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty (Andre Ringuette) Sometimes you’re the bug, sometimes you’re the windshield. It is the way of things, in the game of prediction-making in hockey. Some

Down to the wire in ‘TeamTank’

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty (Andre Ringuette) Some meandering thoughts and pauses-for-consideration as we head down the stretch in the National Hockey League regular season. Really, when you think

Jets represent Canada’s best bet

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty That grandiose sense of hope for Canada took a turn towards minimal optimism some time just after Christmas this past year. "Could we

Despite disastrous season, better days ahead for Senators?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Eugene Melnyk. . . . Now that I have your attention, let's move on. We're going to leave the Ottawa Senators' owner, CEO,

Senators Hit Mute Button on Trade Deadline Day

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Images (Andre Ringuette) Ian freakin' Cole? That's it? That's all she wrote? C'est tout? This National Hockey League trade deadline was supposed to

Tumultuous season continues for Senators

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Images (Andre Ringuette) "May you live in interesting times." It's an adage that adequately describes the Ottawa Senators, in that the phrase

Nothing Shabby About Chabot

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy CP Circling back to the draft of 2015 and while most will focus on the introduction of wunder-kid Connor McDavid to the ranks of the

Have the Senators Flat-lined?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Image Seriously? We're running out of things to write here. The Ottawa Senators are a terribly dysfunctional and unresponsive patient. They have

Could Senators Be Trading Karlsson?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Image So just how much stuffing is in this turkey of an idea to trade Ottawa Senator Erik Karlsson? Depends who you

Is the Guy Boucher System Working for the Senators?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Image This Guy Boucher system on this Guy Boucher-coached team with Guy Boucher's players does not work. And it hasn't, pretty much

Have Sens quickly become one on the league’s doormats?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Image As the legendary Ric Flair would say: "What's causing all this?!!" Truth be told, I don't have a clue. As the

Big Questions Surround the Sens

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Image While it's certainly not the right juncture for hysteria, terror and trepidation, the way the Ottawa Senators have been playing lately

If the Current ‘Cool’ in the NHL is Skating, Ottawa is Sitting Pretty Chill

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Image Mimicry is the great motivator in the National Hockey League. A few years back, tanking became the thing to do. After

Turris Nashville Bound in Avalanche of a Trade

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Images Isn't it just so appropriate that the Ottawa Senators and Colorado Avalanche are going to be spending some significant time together

J and J’s Gibberish: Hockey Talk and Mental Health Movember

 One mother's weekly journey in raising her special needs children.  With all the celebrity shaming going around (rightfully so I might add!!!) for atrocious predatory and vile male behaviour, I thought I would use this week’s J and J Gibberish to launch a series about celebrities using their voices for

SENATORS: What We Learned Last Week

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Images From the highly anticipated "Things-We-Learned-This-Past-Week" department: If Bobby Ryan didn't have bad luck, he likely would have no luck at all.

Different Splash of Colour in Battle of Ontario

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy NHLI via Getty Images Colton Orr - Matt Carkner. Tie Domi - Chris Neil. Darcy Tucker - The entire Ottawa bench. Yep, the Battle of

James Boyd Brings His A-Game to the Ottawa 67s

 Photos courtesy of Ottawa 67s You could say that hockey runs in James Boyd’s blood. The new General Manager of the Ottawa 67s first become interested in the sport through his father, who played ‘Old Timers’ hockey and coached the kids in his hometown of Midland, Ontario. While growing up,

What’s next?

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. Feature photo Courtesy Andre Ringuette NHLI via Getty Images Your guess is as good as mine. The question being, what can you expect to occur in Game 6 Tuesday night at