Kaspars Daugavins’s arbitration case will be heard July 24, but if the Ottawa Senators don’t like the ruling, Daugavins could be finished as a member of the organization. Daugavins, a winger who scored five goals and six assists in 65 games with the team last season, is seeking a guaranteed one-way NHL contract. Last [...]
About Ken Warren
Citizen sports writer/columnist Ken Warren has been covering the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League since 1995, bringing readers excitement from arenas throughout North America, including the Stanley Cup finals and the World Cup of Hockey finals. Warren has won Professional Hockey Writers Association awards in both the features and game story categories. During his 23-year career at the Citizen, Warren has also written from the Grey Cup, the Memorial Cup and about professional baseball -- both at the major league and minor league levels. He has followed the fortunes of the Ottawa Rough Riders and Renegades, the Ottawa 67's and Gatineau Olympiques. Warren, who graduated from Carleton University's journalism program, began his career in the newspaper business at a tender age, delivering the Citizen as a teenager.
Even with Chris Neil signed, sealed and delivered through the 2015-16 season with the Ottawa Senators, general manager Bryan Murray concedes the team needs to add more toughness. “I don’t think there are any players sitting out there (in free agency),” Murray said after the team officially announced Neil’s three-year, $5.75 million extension on Thursday. [...]
After a long distance talk with Daniel Alfredsson last week, Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray sounds cautiously optimistic the captain will be returning to the lineup next season.
What goes around has come around for Mark Borowiecki. Borowiecki, the determined defenceman who will be pushing hard for a full-time spot on the Ottawa Senators roster when training camp opens in September, represented hockey royalty to two dozen young summer campers at the Bell Sensplex Wednesday. Borowiecki played in a spirited game of [...]
The Ottawa Senators made another depth move on Tuesday, signing 26-year-old defenceman Tyler Eckford to a two-year, two-way contract. Eckford, who is expected to play with the American Hockey League’s Binghamton Senators next season, scored 10 goals and 15 assists in 75 games with the AHL’s Portland Pirates last season. Originally drafted by the New [...]
Before his trade to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Canada Day, Nick Foligno was staring at the possibility of a long, drawn-out summer of contract negotiations with the Ottawa Senators.
Way back in 2000, the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild entered the National Hockey League together, as expansion cousins.