4 Nations: A Rollicking Success

 You really cannot walk away describing this as anything but a major success. While the National Hockey League sits in hiatus, hockey itself has grown leaps and bounds with the introduction this week (and last) of the 4 Nations Face-Off. In a couple of words: Terrific entertainment. The mini tournament

Senators’ November: A Waltz to Forget

 The good? Tim Stutzle’s dancing like he’s Fred Astaire. The bad? The rest of the team’s dancing like Elaine Benes. This has not been a November to remember for the Ottawa Senators and – really - this mini-slump rich with bad rhythm and a few poorly timed one-step and two-step

Oilers, Leafs, Jets and Canucks takin’ care of business

 The most fabulous time of the year hasn’t disappointed, and we are what, only three-days-and-change in? Fabulous. Lots to chew on from a Canadian team perspective as the NHL post-season rages onward. It is – after all - the most fabulous time of the year . . .   WHERE

Battle of Alberta won’t help Canada’s odds

 PHOTO: NHL.COM At first there were three, then there were two. Soon there will be one. The percentages for a Canadian-style NHL championship have been sliced-and-diced down to a mere 25 per cent, regardless of what happens in the upcoming Round 2 of the playoffs. Canada’s last remaining hopes –

Senators will have company in playoff chase

 If the playoffs do eventually come knocking, who steps out of the Ottawa Senator’s way? Realistically the organization would need to take a significant jump in order to rally and compete for a spot as early as next season. Could it happen? Sure, but unless Senators management can figure out

Senators’ neighbours going through angst of their own

 As Ottawa’s Senators continue a season swimming (and sinking at times) in unpredictability, the guys next door and across the street are drafting their own stories. Ottawa’s greatest rivals, for the uninitiated, are of course the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs. As the two most recognized teams in

Onward to Boston!

 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 by NHLI via Getty Images Hockey purists relish the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. There's a kind of whirling dervish element to the games - it is

Canada’s Olympic Camp: Spezza Snubbed for Sochi

 Only 25 players will travel with Canada’s national men’s hockey team to Russia next February for the Winter Olympics, but Hockey Canada’s 47-man original roster is still subject to relentless scrutiny. That smattering of uber-talented Canadian NHLers is set to gather in Calgary at the end of August for their