September is here and you know what that means…
The long and tedious countdown to the start of a regular season is about to ramp up around these parts. While we’re still a good 417 hours from the start of the preseason and the puck doesn’t drop on the regular season for another 3,059,202 seconds, we’re getting closer.
The players are starting to roll into to town to prepare for Travis Green’s Training Camp of Doom. The Annual Golf Tournament is just a week away and will be rammed with quotes for us to overreact too. And soon, we’ll find out who is showing up for Training Camp in the best shape of their lives.
So beat it summer – it’s time for Sens.
And in another surefire sign that the new season is just around the corner, the GM is talkin’ to the media again.
Yesterday, the Ottawa Senators hosted a VERY exclusive event for local media and some top influencers and there was all sorts of interesting tidbits about the team, about their plans for the upcoming season and about some incredibly elaborate snacks that I’ll never even consider buying because I spent my whole damn allowance on those delicious but pricey draught beers. There’s a good rundown of the day here.
Theme nights and a Brooke Henderson signing dominated the headlines but there were some interesting comments hidden in there from Steve Staios during his appearance on TSN 1200.
With questions abound regarding the team’s depth on the blueline heading into the season, it certainly sounds like Steve Staios has a very specific player in mind for a potential PTO. While his statements at the media event were a little vague he was pretty clear during his radio spot.
Here’s Steady Steve on the possibility…
“Yea I mean there is always that possibility”…buncha words and stuff to not tip his hand too much…“of course we’re going to continue to look at it over the coming weeks and days. There’s some things that might be pending and maybe a little bit sooner than later. We want to create depth and competition moving into Camp.“
It certainly sounds like we’ve entered PTO season, folks.
Any names that you’d be interested and adding ahead of Training Camp?
