With the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators set to meet in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time ever, what should fans expect from the series? Although the Habs come in as the number 2 seed they aren’t the hotter team coming into the series. They had a rough April, losing 6 out ...
The Ottawa Senators got their preferred playoff match-up as they will face the struggling Montréal Canadiens in the first round. It is the first ever series between the two rivals and will no doubt be one for the ages. The Montréal Canadiens have been one of the most surprising teams this season and have shown ...
It’s no question that this upcoming offseason will be an interesting one for the Ottawa Senators. With over twenty-two million in cap space available next season, the Senators have the ability to make a major splash come July 5th. The Senators have sixteen players that need to be resigned and it’s likely we will not ...
Sitting two points out of the eighth seed in the West, the Nashville Predators are currently in eleventh place looking up, with only 14 games left in the season. Although anything can happen in the playoffs, if the Predators were to secure the seventh or eighth seed, they would most likely face the powerhouse Chicago Blackhawks or the streaky Anaheim Ducks. That leaves Predators GM David Poile with the question of whether to buy and try to make a run, similar to the past few years when he’s added players like Hal Gill, Paul Gaustad, Andrei Kostitsyn, and Mike Fisher, or sell and restock for future clubs.
The last time Russia had the Olympic games it was summer, the height of the cold war, and no one wanted to go to Russia. More than three decades later, they are getting the Olympics again, and no event will match the attention given to hockey. The Russians adore their hockey, and the nation’s best athletes usually flock to the sport. In Sochi 2014, Russia is certain to ice an incredibly talented team, with more than enough motivation in front of rabid home crowds to bring home the gold medal.
Sergei Gonchar will be approaching his third season with the Ottawa Senators when the labour dispute ends. Gonchar has had two very different seasons as he struggled in his first year with the Senators at both ends of the ice. Last season Gonchar looked as though he had worked through the challenges that plagued his ...
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) recognizes the top forward, defenseman, goaltender, and rookie each month. Selections are made by the KHL Statistics and Information Bureau based upon both statistical results and overall performance. The December winners are: Forward of the Month Evgeni Malkin, Metallurg Magnitogorsk Malkin scored 25 points – eight goals and 17 assists ...
The KHL All-Star Game is slated for the weekend of January 12-13 in Chelyabinsk, home of the KHL’s Traktor. The starting lineups for the annual event were selected via fan balloting, and the results are in. Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Evgeni Malkin received the most votes (40,569). He was followed by Pavel Datsyuk of CSKA Moscow (33,731), Alexander ...
While you can catch most of the Ottawa Senators prospects and younger players in the AHL nowadays some of them have gone over to play in Europe. As the lockout keeps dragging on one thing that has been noticeable is that the Senators players overseas are making headlines and dominating their respective leagues. Here is ...
With more than one-third on the 2012-13 NHL season, including the All-Star game and the Winter Classic, already cancelled due to the owners locking out the players over a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), time is now running out to negotiate and sign a new CBA and save the remaining part of the season. With ...
