Ottawa Senators Can’t Trade Their Way to the Playoffs This Season Paul Quinney | December 1, 2024 With their loss on Nov. 30 to the Los Angeles Kings, the Ottawa Senators have a record of 10-12-1 in their first 23 games this season. The team isn’t keeping…
Ottawa Senators Have Been Constructed to Lose Dayton Reimer | November 25, 2024 The 2024-25 Ottawa Senators are arguably the best team fans have seen in years. Tim Stutzle leads the team in scoring and is on pace to hit 100 points, which…
Senators’ Hopes of Playoffs Slipping Away in November Paul Quinney | November 24, 2024 As November draws to a close, the Ottawa Senators’ dream of making the playoffs for the first time in eight years seems to be fading. After their embarrassing loss to…
Senators News & Rumors: Norris, Ullmark, Henderson & More Jacob Billington | September 5, 2024 In this edition of the Ottawa Senators News & Rumors, we look at what Steve Staios had to say to the media in a recent press conference, updates on the…
Senators’ Staios Adds Much-Needed Grit to Roster Paul Quinney | July 14, 2024 Last year at about this time, I wrote a piece arguing that the Ottawa Senators needed to be bigger, badder but mostly meaner to make the playoffs. Just as Toronto…
Senators’ Staios Deserves Passing Grade for Early Free Agency Moves Paul Quinney | July 8, 2024 Ottawa Senators president of hockey operations and general manager (GM) Steve Staios jumped right into the NHL’s free-agent frenzy when it opened on Canada Day. When the dust settled two…
Senators’ GM Staios is Prioritizing Veteran Leadership Spencer Lazary | July 6, 2024 Now that the Ottawa Senators have signed Shane Pinto to a new two-year contract worth $7.5 million, they have their core locked in for at least the next two seasons.…
Flames & Oilers Trade History Revisited Ryan Gagne | June 22, 2024 The Calgary Flames joined the NHL as the Atlanta Flames in 1972. While the team was in Georgia, they had no interstate rivals like the two Pennsylvania teams, the Pittsburgh…
Flames Options to Target From Senators in Markstrom Trade Rupert McDonald | June 12, 2024 It feels like a matter of when, not if, the Calgary Flames will trade Jacob Markstrom. Not only is the organization nearing the point of handing the reigns to top…
Senators Should Deal Jakob Chychrun to Bruins for Linus Ullmark Paul Quinney | June 12, 2024 If Ottawa Senators’ president of hockey operations and general manager (GM) Steve Staios isn’t trying to trade for Boston Bruins goaltender Linus Ullmark, he should be. His current goaltending duo…
Senators Need to Extend Qualifying Offer to RFA Erik Brannstrom Paul Quinney | June 8, 2024 Much of Bytown’s hockey punditry thinks the Ottawa Senators should move on from restricted free agent (RFA) Erik Brannstrom this summer. The gist of their argument for parting ways with…
Senators Face Tough 2024 Free Agent Market Paul Quinney | June 7, 2024 The NHL’s free agency market opens on July 1 and many Ottawa Senators fans are hoping that Steve Staios, the team’s president of hockey operations and general manager (GM), engineers…