There is a hockey game tonight.
The Ottawa Senators are hosting the Chicago Blackhawks and as far as meaningless games go, this one is on another level. Chicago is horrendous again this year and will be all tuckered out from beating Montreal last night. Meanwhile the Senators are locked into that first Wild Card spot and may actually ask me to play tonight. Really gotta work on that sales pitch.
The Senators and Blackhawks BATTLE on Tuesday night in Ottawa.
No sign of a Game Day skate today but Travis Green did meet with the media and share a few lineup notes. Jake Sanderson, Claude Giroux and Nick Jensen are all sitting this one out to rest up for the playoffs.
We’ll have to wait until closer to puck drop to find out how they plan to align themselves.
Anton Forsberg starts
Puck drop is at 7:08 PM in The Tire. At The Tire? Around The Tire? The game is on TSN5, TSN1200 and on streaming sites for the more adventurous Sens fans among us.
Go Sens Go?
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Okay, now the second item on today’s agenda…THE CONTEST.
A huge thanks to everyone that participated yesterday and an ever bigger thank you to Misaow for offering up such an incredible prize. A word from the man himself…
“Thanks to everyone who participated. I had asked Chirp to remain
anonymous but here we are. It was great to interact with many of you
and hope you are all excited for the playoffs.
I will be sending the winners their tickets through the Sens ticketing
system, Ticketmaster, so expect the emails shortly.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I shall return to my regular 2-3 posts per
Chirp post.”
After careful consideration, we decided to hand out two of the pairs to comment section winners. The upvotes have spoken and the winners are…
Pasky
x- The B Family
If you could both send me an email at info@senschirp.ca, we can figure out how to get you your prize.
And then the two winners of the random draw, courtesy of the ol’ random wheel of names generator of doom…
Congratulations! Keep an eye on your inbox for details.
If we don’t hear back from winners by Thursday AM, we’ll spin the wheel again.
Thanks for playing along everyone!
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LASTLY…
In case you missed it, here’s my interview with Sens President Cyril Leeder, where we talk about the early days of the franchise, about the role of a Team President and about the plan for playoff tickets. I think I may have asked him for a job too?
The SensChirp Podcast - Episode 25 (ft. Cyril Leeder)
Also available on Apple Podcasts.
There were some connection issues early in the interview but thankfully I was able to salvage a couple lost moments including this Leeder quote, which may actually be the best moment in SensChirp history.
And here, where I talk about the last time I ran into Leeder at MSG back in 2012.
A huge thank you to Cyril Leeder for making the time, Ian Mendes for setting it up and to the anonymous reader that sent the email that brought it all together.
