Presenting the 2012 THW Year-End Awards
Every year, the National Hockey League’s awards are voted upon by the league’s general managers or the Professional Hockey Writers Association. The idea is to get a balanced cross-section of opinions and, hopefully, cancelling out any specific homerish voting patterns. With writers in all 30 NHL cities, some with multiple writers, and several at-large subject [...]
“What’s It All About Alfie?” Will Daniel Alfredsson Stay or Go?
It is very difficult to put into words what Daniel Alfredsson has meant to the Ottawa Senators organization. From day one, there always seemed to…
Ottawa Senators Year End Review
To say the Ottawa Senators surpassed expectations would be an understatement. Many hockey insiders picked them to be last in the East, as well as last…
Five Keys for Ottawa Senators Success in Game 7
Paul Maclean’s young Ottawa Senators caught a lot of people by surprise during the regular season, and have done so in the postseason as well.…
Fun With Numbers: 2011/2012 NHL Regular Season Edition
As another NHL regular season has passed us by, hockey stat junkies everywhere have another endless sea of numbers to sift through, everything from goals…
Thuggish Buffoonery: AKA The NHL Playoffs
Ah, Spring… When otherwise sportsmanlike players make decidedly unsportsmanlike plays. In game one of the Predators/Red Wings series,…
Top 10 goal scorers in Ottawa
My series on the top ten goal scorers in every NHL arena continues with the Ottawa Senators. Although…
Sens Versus Rangers Mid-Series Analysis
After four games, these two teams are deadlocked at 2-2 and it is now a best of three…
What the Ottawa Senators have given us during the 2011-2012 Season
No matter how the rest of the Ottawa Senators series plays out vs. the New York Rangers the…
Playoff Ratings Are Up, But So Is The Goonery
The 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are being broadcast nationally in their entirety for the first time ever.…
Despite Hagelin’s Suspension, Rangers Focus On Task at Hand
Good, bad, or indifferent, the fact remains: Carl Hagelin is suspended for Games 3, 4, and 5 of…
Rangers Need to Keep the Foot on the Gas In Game 2
In their first Game 1 at Madison Square Garden in sixteen years, the New York Rangers were able…
Ottawa Senators Lineup – Then and Now
This time five years ago, the Ottawa Senators were embarking on what would become a two-and-a-half month journey…
Eastern Conference Quarterfinals: Rangers vs. Senators Preview
As the regular season entered its final weeks, and even its final day, not too many people…
The Zibanejad Question: To play or not to play
The Ottawa Senators have had a very successful season. And I say this before the playoffs have even…
