“Doctors told me I should watch Leafs games to avoid excitement.”
About Allen Panzeri
After three years of teaching English at the University of British Columbia, Allen Panzeri began his career in journalism in 1979 at the Medicine Hat News, where he covered Kelly Hrudey and the Tigers while learning about block heaters, rodeo, and curling. In 1981, he moved north to the Edmonton Journal, where he covered boxing, the Edmonton Drillers of the North American Soccer League, and the University of Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas for four years, before taking a 10-year hiatus from sports to write editorials, cover primary, secondary, and university education, and watch the beginnings of the Ralph Klein era at the provincial legislature. Traded to the Citizen in 1995, he accepted an offer to return to sports and cover the Ottawa Lynx, lucking into a front-row seat for their 1995 International League championship, and since then has covered the Senators and typed out the occasional article on golf.
Alternate captain Sylvain Turgeon remembers opening night, Oct. 8, 1992 (as told to Allen Panzeri): “It was like flying on top of a cloud. “It was the loudest crowd I had ever heard and you could see smiles on the faces of everyone, just happy to have hockey back. “So it was energizing. But for [...]
Laurie Boschman remembers opening night, Oct. 8, 1992 (as told to Allen Panzeri): “It was pretty electric because the Civic Centre was a small building. “You could visibly sense the excitement of NHL hockey back in Ottawa. Certainly as players we really felt it, so it was pretty neat. “All of us also knew that [...]
From our Famous Last Words dept., this just in: Ottawa Senator goalie Craig Anderson is not worried about being worn out halfway through the season by a steady diet of 40-shot games, because he’s older and wiser and used to the mental strain of being an NHL goalie. Er, OK.
1004-sprt-carkner Allen Panzeri It was bad news for Matt Carkner, good news for David Rundblad. A door opened for the the 20-year-old Rundblad on Monday when general manager Bryan Murray announced that Matt Carkner had had surgery on his right knee that morning and would be out indefinitely, at least four to six weeks. The [...]
Jamie Van Dusen has every other sweater the Ottawa Senators have worn over their 20 seasons in the NHL. So you had to figure he’d be one of the first in line on Saturday morning to pick up the latest incarnation, the heritage sweater that harkens back to the team’s earliest days in the league.
Where the Senators end up this season will be a question that pre-occupies the National Capital Region all winter. But what kind of a team will it be? MacLean has now seen his players for just under two weeks and is feeling good about it. “We think we’re going to have a real competitive team,” [...]