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First of all, thanks to all of you that took the time to leave your response in yesterday’s comment section.
With the Ottawa Senators celebrating their Twentieth season in the NHL, I thought it might be fun to do some reflection on years passed. Using your votes, I have come up with the reader's choice in eight categories.
Most Underrated/Most Overrated player, Most Heart, Toughest, Most Entertaining, All-Time Favourite, Worst Sens Memory and Best Sens Memory. Over the next little while, I’ll be posting the results in each of the categories.
Up first…Most Underrated Ottawa Senator of the last 20 years.
This was probably the category with the most variety in the responses. The answers that were submitted varied from current Sens to old and included a mix of grinders, offence stars, goalies and defenceman.
But in the end, the winner was forward Chris Kelly, with 20 % of the vote.
Hard to argue with this one. Kelly was a heart and soul player for this team that always had a way of elevating his play when the game was on the line. Reliable in all three zones, Chris Kelly was the type of guy you could trust with the game on the line. Kelly is with the Bruins now but it’s clear the impression he left on fans in this city remains.
Honourable mention to Radek Bonk (10%), Antoine Vermette (10%) and Patrick Lalime (9%).
The complete list of players receiving votes can be found below.
MOST UNDERRATED (59 votes)
Chris Kelly- 12
Radek Bonk- 6
Antoine Vermette- 6
Patrick Lalime- 5
Chris Phillips- 3
Magnus Arvedsson- 3
Martin Havlat- 3
Ray Emery- 3
Anton Volchenkov- 2
Jason Spezza- 2
Nick Foligno- 2
Ron Tugnutt- 2
Shawn McEachern-1
Shean Donovan-1
Todd White-1
Zdeno Chara-1
Alexandre Daigle- 1
Peter Schaefer- 1
Christoph Schubert- 1
Daniel Alfredsson- 1
Filip Kuba- 1
Bryan Murray- 1
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After a hard fought win in Edmonton last night, the Sens traveled to Vancouver ahead of their Sunday night tilt with the Vancouver Canucks. Paul MacLean gave his players the day off and they are expected to return to the practice ice tomorrow at 1:00 PM Pacific time.
