Leafs visit supplies shining example

 Photo courtesy of NHLI via Getty Images Finally the day arrives. For the first time (for some reason) this season the thousands of Toronto Maple Leaf fans in the capital region (cough if you’d like to at this point) get satiated with a taste of their team. Saturday night, the Leafs

A small, slight bump in the hope metre?

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images It’s the tiniest of sample sizes to be sure. Ottawa’s Senators roll out two straight wins in a season that has seen so very few of these positive streaks. Still, it’s a bump; slight as the headline indicates. The odd part is the Senators accomplished

Time for Eugene to get serious, seriously

 Photo courtesy of NHLI via Getty Images Took in Saturday night’s game at the Canadian Tire Centre and was stunned. Well, mildly stunned. If the Leafs or Habs are in town, you kind of expect it – plenty of fans rooting for the visitors. But here we are on a

Canadian Clubs Lead the Way with Calgary Surprise

 Photo courtesy of NHLI via Getty Images How ya doin’ out there Canada? Well, we’re about to hit elongated home stretch and the run to the NHL trade deadline (3 pm ET, Feb. 25) so let’s take a gander at who’s done what so far and what is likely to

Spirits lifted for Senators during dads’ trip

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images I imagine if my dad was watching, I’d work at about the same level. In this grim swamp of a season for the Ottawa Senators, this past week presented a rare light and positive look. The dads’ trip. As far as I know, most

Under-manned Senators get the job done out west

 Photo courtesy of NHLI via Getty Images Not bad at all. Your heroes march out to California this past week in the midst of an eight-game whopper of a losing string and proceed to cut it with a pair of wins in the Los Angeles region. The Cali-hat-trick though was not

Senators streak indicative of state of entire organization

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images In the NHL there’s, of course, the Great 8. The Ottawa Senators however are well on the other side of the discussion as far as ‘8’ goes. Eight straight losses. This team is sinking harder and faster than my RSP portfolio. Hell, we all

Mid-season report card sports few surprises for teetering Senators

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images We’re on the brink of hitting the mid-way point in the NHL season. For the Ottawa Senators, the first half had its moments . . . some of them actually good . . . but most, bad. Here’s what we see when evaluating the

From Carleton’s Basketball Championship to Jon Gott’s Beer Chug: Counting Down the Top Ottawa Sports and Social Media Moments of 2018

 2018 was a memorable sports year in the nation’s capital. While not everything was rosy, including the Redblacks loss to the Stamps in the Grey Cup and just about everything surrounding the Ottawa Senators, the year provided plenty of fun and inspiring moments from many of the city’s teams. Before

Not all miserable in Senator land

 Photo credit: NHLI via Getty Images Well now, wasn’t that a party? Not the kind where everyone has a festive time and hugs, good feelings and smiles are shared around the room. Nope, this was more of the kind of party where your guests drink too much, break some chairs, accidentally

Karlsson returns to capital

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images So, I imagine there will be a little bit of interest in this one. Saturday, the best player in Ottawa Senator franchise history makes his return to the capital. Yup, that would be one Erik Karlsson whose relatively anonymous season on the west coast gets

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

Multi-faceted music studio Artist Alliance opens downtown

 Photo credit: Laura Collins Elvis Presley once said, “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” In other words, you can dream all you want but unless you’ve got the ambition to see that dream through it won’t come true. With 25 years of experience in songwriting, performing and production,

In the NHL, it’s early but . . .

 Photo credit: NHLI via Getty Images It’s never really too early to start spinning a good tale. So, here we sit, less than a month into the National Hockey League season with plenty of storylines crying for attention. Given we live in an age of relentless social media, news and notions

Small sample size, but Sens on target

 Photo courtesy NHLI via Getty Images The National Hockey League hype machine is officially – as with every season – firing on all cylinders. Happens every year around this time. A couple of games in and the prophecy window is wide open for business. The Senators are this, the Leafs

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

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

Will No. 4 be the one for Senators?

 Cheesy as it sounds – ‘may the fourth be with you’ – is something Ottawa’s suffering faithful sure hopes bears fruit. Because let’s face it Senator fan, the past 12 months have been plagued with more pot-holes than Carling Avenue in April. With a pending nasty legal case involving Ottawa’s

NHL Playoffs: A veritable alphabet soup

 Photo courtesy of NHLI via Getty Images Here we go. It’s the A, B, Z’s (American pronunciation for rhyming purposes please) of the Stanley Cup playoffs, with a few Ottawa references thrown in. (This IS an Ottawa-based magazine after all, right?). So, strap on your ‘well, what a poetic thought’ hat

Draft-day preparation off and running for Senators

 No. 4 and No. 22. Two digits that underline how critical the past week was, and the weeks approaching will be, for the Ottawa Senators. It’s never too early to start preparing for an NHL entry draft that will see you – at this point – selecting fourth and 22nd

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.