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.

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

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. Eugene Melnyk. . . . Now that I have your attention, let's move on. We're going to leave the Ottawa Senators' owner, CEO, shadow-GM and resident national capital

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

Sens’ Winning Ways Something to Ponder

 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) Hey buddy, you're going the wrong way . . . Sort of. You can excuse the Ottawa Senators if they're

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

SENATORS: A Week in Review

 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 Do the Ottawa Senators actually have the ability to win another game before this horror show of an NHL season gets

NCC and RendezVous Reach Agreement in LeBreton Flats Redevelopment

 After much waiting and speculation, plans to move forward on the redevelopment of Ottawa’s LeBreton Flats were made today in what some are calling a milestone announcement for Canada’s Capital. Both The National Capital Commission (NCC) and RendezVous LeBreton Group stated they have reached an agreement in principle on how to

Senators Mid-season Musings

 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 Some mid-season musings as we head to towards the all-star break (hosted by the Tampa Bay Lightning on Jan. 28th): *

Bye Week for Sens and Leafs. How Does Ontario Hockey Look Moving Towards the Playoffs?

 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 Fun in the sun week for both the Ottawa Senator and Toronto Maple Leaf players, but I kind of get 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.

The Boys Are Back in Town

 SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by OLMSports Dave Gross. What they're selling, I am not buying. It's pundit prognostication open season and once again the Ottawa Senators aren't even in the scope. Flip on the TV, check out a

World-Class Sports Complex Coming to Orleans

 Photos by Andre Gagne / Designs provided by BlackSheep Developments As talks trudge onward to bring a new sports arena from the west to a more centralized LeBreton Flats, one group has staked a claim on the East. In fact, you could say they tumbled into it. Tumblers Gymnastics, one of

The Top 25 People in the Capital: 11-20

 Photo by Valerie Keeler This year we teamed up with Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund, to sniff out the top dogs in the city that are actually people. Crusoe got his game face on and scouted out Ottawans that are the ones to watch. They are the best that the capital has

Ottawa Boy Battling Leukemia Gets Chance at Dream Toy Dash

 Photos by Emily Cordonier There was no hiding the excitement on the face of Gabriel Munante when he arrived just as the sun was rising, at the Toys “R” Us location in Orleans. The 11-year-old Ottawa boy is one of eight Canadian children who was randomly selected to receive a