The Los Angeles Kings have been crowned and the NHL season is finally over. Well, not quite. The season doesn’t officially wrap up until the regular season stars are honoured next Wednesday in Las Vegas. Then comes the promise for the future with the NHL draft in Pittsburgh on June 22-23. Free agency begins July 1. Then there are the trades and the off-season signings, and well, the cycle starts anew. Let’s face it, there really isn’t much of a break.
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.
The wheels keep on turning for Brad Marsh and he couldn’t be happier. Marsh, accompanied by son, Erik, and daughter, Madeline, was fighting off the tears as he rolled into Scotiabank Place Monday afternoon. Marsh, the 15-year NHL veteran and one of the colourful characters from the Ottawa Senators first season, is now well past [...]
Matt Carkner is still waiting to hear if the Ottawa Senators want him back next season, but that hasn’t stopped the rugged defenceman from doing his part to make hockey available to countless special needs children around the city.
For the Ottawa Senators and Erik Karlsson, the serious discussions about what he’s worth won’t happen until well after the free-agent frenzy in early July. That’s about the same time as the NHL and the players’ association will be rolling up their sleeves to reach an agreement on how to fairly divide up the league’s revenues.
It should came as no surprise that Slater Koekkoek has leaned on Ottawa Senators prospect Matt Puempel for some helpful advice during the past few weeks and months. Puempel, who has played alongside Koekkoek with the Peterborough Petes for the last two seasons, has a pretty good idea of the anxiety Koekkoek is dealing [...]
We all lose our edge as the Stanley Cup playoffs go on and on. The first-round doubleheaders and the channel surfing from TSN to CBC are long gone. The post-season stretch of consecutive days with at least one game ended on May 10. Committing to weekend afternoon games was a test. We’ve now gone four [...]
Another day, another signing for the Senators. On Friday, Pat Cannone, a 23-year-old forward, signed a two-year extension with the organization. Cannone finished third in scoring for the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League last season, scoring 19 goals and 43 points in 76 games. He originally signed as a free agent with the [...]