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Game Day- Surging Senators Host Blackhawks
When the Chicago Blackhawks visit the Senators in Ottawa, it has the look of just any other game. Two teams that don’t see a lot of each other, meeting in the back half of
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Game Day- Senators Return Home to Face Kraken
Sorry, I’m late- what’s Kraken? Sigh. Here’s the line up. Tkachuk-Norris-BrownFormenton Stützle-GaudettePaul-White-SanfordKelly-Gambrell-Watson Chabot-ZubHolden-Zaitsev Brannstrom-Brown Anton Forsberg starts. Puck drop at 7:08 PM. Forget tv, radio and illegal streaming…this game is available live and in
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Game Day- Slumping Senators Stumble to St. Louis
You know it’s gonna be a rough Game Day post when the game starts in like two hours and the best idea you can come up with is trying to subtly incorporate song lyrics
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Game Day- Slumping Senators Stumble to Sin City
In the intro, I usually go with some sort of attempt at humour. A quick one-liner that sets the tone for the mediocrity that will follow and mostly tries to distract you from what
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Game Day- Senators Visit Coyotes in Glendale
There’s an old expression in sports and it goes like this- “burn the tapes”. It’s used in situations where a team plays a particularly terrible game and would like to forget it entirely. In
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Game Day- Road Trip Continues in Florida
No time for nonsense- the Ottawa Senators play today, the opponent is the Florida Panthers and Josh Norris is back. Here’s a lineup. Tkachuk-Norris-Sanford Formenton-Stützle-BrownPaul-White-EnnisKelly-Gambrell-Watson Chabot-Zaitsev Holden-ZubHeatherington-Mete Anton Forsberg starts. Puck drop is, well
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Game Day- Senators Begin Road Trip in Tampa
As the calendar rolls over to March and as the province of Ontario begins a rollback of COVID measures, the Ottawa Senators are rolling right out of town looking to get on a roll
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Game Day- Senators Host Hammond’s Habs
There’s no such thing as a bad time for a stroll. So as the Senators get set to host Andrew Hammond and the Montreal Canadiens, this feels like as good a time as any
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Chabot, Tkachuk Lead Senators Over Wild
FIVE QUICK THOUGHTS -There is something delightfully naive about this year’s edition of the Ottawa Senators. Even at a time when they should be overwhelmed by injuries and against teams that should be equally
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Game Day- Senators Host High-Flying Wild
Without looking, can you name all the professional sports teams (NHL, NFL, NBA and MLB) that have a team nickname that doesn’t end in an “S”? It’s okay, I’ll wait. No prize to the
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Game Day- Senators Host Rangers on Sunday Night
Webster’s Dictionary defines tripping as “to get high on a psychedelic drug (such as LSD):– often used with out.” Interesting. They go on to state that tripping can also be defined as “to catch the
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Game Day- Senators Return Home to Host Bruins
For far too long, the Canadian Tire Centre has sat mostly empty. Even as a consistently competitive Sens team turned in a stretch that featured some of their best hockey of the season, the
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