Adam Coombs
@https://twitter.com/acoombs14
I am a Canadian historian studying at UBC and currently living in Ottawa ON. who grew up watching and playing hockey. I write about the Ottawa Senators, past and present, for The Hockey Writers. I think fancy stats are great. Also a huge soccer and Rugby fan.
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Lessons Learned: Ottawa Senators' Preseason Edition
October 8th, 2015 Ottawa finished the 2015 preseason with the most unlikeliest of wins. While being out shot 37 to 15, the Senators put five past Montreal St. John's goalie Dustin Tokarski while Montreal could only score four on prospect Matt O'Connor. Ottawa's offensive performance certainly made for entertaining viewing, but consistently relying on...
Three Ottawa Senators Who Should Pack Their Bags
October 5th, 2015 Colin Greening has most certainly played his final game for the Ottawa Senators. https://twitter.com/PxPOttawa/status/649968464640245760 With Greening being sent to Binghamton, only $1.7 million of his $2.65 million contract will count against the cap. While cap space is not a problem for this year, paying a player $2.76 million in...
Thomas Chabot: Ottawa's French-Canadian Erik Karlsson?
October 2nd, 2015 Nobody likes to get cut from a team and for top NHL prospects, getting sent home from training camp is probably the first time in many years, if not their life, that they have been cut. However, despite being sent back to his QJMHL team The Saint John Sea Dogs, Thomas Chabot had a reason to smile. Before heading back to Saint John,...
3 Thoughts On Opening Weekend Of Ottawa Senators' Training Camp
September 22nd, 2015 The Ottawa Senators opened training camp last week and after five days of practices, fitness testing, inter-squad games and video review, the team hits the ice for their first game of the 2015-16 pre-season, with two split-squad games against the Maple Leafs. While players' performance in the Senators' eight exhibition games will make...
Ottawa Senators' 2015-16 Question Marks: Bobby Ryan and Milan Michalek
September 15th, 2015 Last week we looked at defensemen and goalies, this week its the forwards' turn. On forward, the biggest question marks for this season surround former thirty goal scorers Bobby Ryan and Milan Michalek. Neither Ryan nor Michalek had very good seasons last year. Both had signed lucrative extensions in the summer of 2014 and were...
Ottawa Senators 2015-16 Question Marks: Goalies and Defensemen Edition
September 10th, 2015 For the Ottawa Senators some things are a given: Erik Karlsson will be the team's number one defenseman, Marc Methot will throw thunderous hip checks and Mark Borowiecki will get stitches and be back out to take a regular shift five minutes later. However, Ottawa also has a lot of unknowns coming into this season and how the team and...
