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Let’s Keep This Ball Rolling

Like it or lump it, this is the final week for hockey in the 2024-25 season. Folks enjoy debating the merits (or lack thereof) of what generally is an exceptionally long stretch of season. This year we kicked things off, in of all places, Prague, way back on Oct. 4th

An Oilers-Panthers Rematch? Bring It

The Edmonton Oilers can clean up and take care of some final business tonight – and then – it’s roll back the clock time. We’re not colouring the Dallas Stars completely done in the Western Conference finale, but the way the competition is playing right now it’s difficult to envision

Leafs In Familiar Trouble Once Again

As the boys on Hockey Night in Canada presented Sunday night during the second intermission of the Toronto-Florida match-up (Game 4), we’ve hit the doldrums stage of the 2025 post-season. I get it. This is the time in the playoffs when a grand chunk of viewers, media and - to

Leafs Continue to Wilt in Elimination Chances

The Toronto Maple Leafs – ‘from stranglehold to strangled?’ Pretty graphic image but let’s see if it holds. “Anytime you lose one or two (games), the pressure is on,” offered up Ottawa forward Dylan Cozens after the Senators turned the tables on this series with a 4-0 win Tuesday night

Habs and Sens Bringing the God’s-Honest Heat

To be perfectly honest, you need to sell this one a little better. People, a.k.a. hockey fanatics in Eastern Canada, are absolutely clamoring for a return to (and of) the ‘Battle of Ontario’ in the post-season. You know – the time of year when the intensity ramps up and the

Schedule and Positioning all in Ottawa’s Favour

The shoe’s definitely on the other foot this time around and it’s a more-than-comfortable fit. As the team prepares to face off against the Philadelphia Flyers Tuesday night, the Ottawa Senators are swimming in uncharted waters . . . well, uncharted for them, certainly. This kind of unfamiliarity though suits

Ottawa’s Kissin’ Cozens in Big Deal with Buffalo

For the past two seasons (at the very least) the cry from disgruntled Ottawa Senators followers growing exhausted with another playoff-less spring was essentially – ‘Gotta start tinkering with the team’s core!’ Tinker, meet trade deadline. Gone on this Friday is core, core-member Josh Norris. One of captain Brady Tkachuk’s

Who’s Going Shopping?

Putting something down on paper prior to the NHL trade deadline is – for the writer/prognosticator – akin to running in front of the thresher. Basically, you’re praying for a peaceful, quiet 24 hours afterwards so that everything you scripted doesn’t get sucked in and becomes dated or obsolete. It

Senators Now Chasing Instead of Chased

Well, nobody said it was going to be easy. While hockey prognosticators across the board continue to state with confidence that the Ottawa Senators will be playoff bound come the middle of April, doubt is starting to creep in. That’s what a five-game losing streak can do to you. And

Canada’s Power While Ottawa’s Sour

It’s an odd time to head to the beach but that’s what the bulk of the National Hockey League’s skaters are up to for the next week. The others? The top stars from Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland? It’s the awaited return of best-on-best international play as the

Knock, Knock, Knocking on Heaven’s Door?

Right into the guts of winter and right into the guts of hockey season. Early February, brothers and sisters, and it’s the best time to be a fan of the NHL. Here are a few examples as to why.   OTTAWA REJOICES, THERE’S MOVEMENT FORWARD INSTEAD OF BACKWARD: A genuinely

Senators in Search of Consistent Consistency

A few things popped out of our tackle box this week. Let’s lure up. Fish on!   CONSISTENCY, SUSTAINABILITY The two magic words that will determine whether the Ottawa Senators roll towards their first playoff spot in eight years . . . or not. Pretty simple, eh? It really is

Senators Mid-Season Report: Some Good, Some Not So Good

Bring on the grind. The Ottawa Senators plowed through an incredibly taxing road run with a few nicks and a few ticks. They also picked up a few wins, particularly at the start, but ended the nine-game slog with a string of defeats. Now the real fun begins as the

Sens Head Into New Year Swimming in Uncharted Waters

One of these things isn’t quite like the other(s). That’s if recent past history is brought into the equation. When we dip into where the trio of teams in this corner’s highly (self)promoted Holy Trinity of Eastern Ontario sit heading into a brand spanking new year, one has changed while

Senators Lighting up Fans’ Christmas Trees

In the immortal words of All Elite Wrestling notable Maxwell Jacob Friedman: “I’m better than you, and you know it!” In the mortal words of the Ottawa Senators up until the month of December (well, Dec. 5th to put a nail in it): “You’re better than me, and we all

Road Swing to Determine Senator Playoff Hopes

At the very least, the Ottawa Senators have placed themselves into a potentially opportunistic position. So, when we look back at the most recent homestand and hand it a grading: Mission accomplished. Now the demanding work truly begins. With the world junior tournament taking over the friendly confines of the

Hope Remains for Senators, but it’s Dimming

Another pointlessly disappointing post-Christmas slog through winter and spring, or an unexpected turnaround on deck for a franchise much more used to the former? As Tom Jones and Donny Osmond would sing – ‘I’m leavin’ it all up to you.’ Here we are; here we sit, in all-too-familiar territory for

Sens, Habs and Leafs Headed in Different Directions

No matter how well your team is going, as an NHL general manager, worry and anxiety are common bedfellows. Teams can be one major injury or a couple of poor goaltending outings away from singing sayonara to the post-season. Here in Eastern Ontario – and readers of this space will

On Battles and JR . . .

This week, it’s a little game of questions in search of answers. Let’s get it rolling.   WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ‘BATTLE OF ONTARIO?’ Seriously, where have you been? When Ottawa and its Senators travel to Toronto to face its Maple Leafs tonight, there just doesn’t appear to be any

The Ghosts of Ottawa’s Goalie Graveyard Rear Up Again

One of my favourite things to bounce around my mouth is this word: Bailiwick. Definition – “one's sphere of operations or particular area of interest.” Contextually this week, we’re using it to address the netminding graveyard known as the Ottawa Senators. A ‘particular area of interest?’ You betcha. Tuesday night’s

NHL: A League of Knee-Jerks

A few months back I foraged my way into a very heated argument with a friend. It began with me accusing him of things – we’ll call them character flaws - and then he fired back accusing me of other things – also known as character flaws. On my side

Early season look at Senators shows improvement

It’s a smallish sample size, no doubt. Still, a 4-2 record six games into this youngish season gives birth to optimism. Make that optimism . . . about . . . change. The Ottawa Senators godawful recent history of poor starts to the year has been documented ad nauseum. Pretty

Kilrea tribute checks all the boxes

It was almost about the huge amount of hockey folks I didn’t get to talk with . . . than the huge amount I did. Sunday night at Lansdowne was quite a gathering. If you missed the notice, it was all in honour of former Ottawa 67’s coach and general

The good and the bad among Senators, Habs and Leafs

Known collectively on this particular page as the Holy Trinity of Eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Senators and their chief rivals in Montreal and Toronto are off and running (some faster than others) in the drag race known as the 2024-25 NHL season. As we’ve discovered though, it’s not so much

Senators need to avoid slow start (again)

Heard kind of an odd statement coming out of the mouth of one of my choice hockey insiders this morning. (And one Ottawa Senator fans would take issue with, no doubt). Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada’s Elliotte Friedman relayed to his co-host, Stittsville resident Kyle Bukauskas, that Buffalo –
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