Zenon Konopka went to Madison Square Garden Saturday morning fully expecting to be part of the madhouse crowd in the building. After all, he had sat out the previous eight games as a healthy scratch, including the playoff opener, and had only played in two of the Ottawa Senators previous 13 games dating back to [...]
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.
Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson was “feeling good today”, according to coach Paul MacLean, but he remains questionable for Game 3 of the first round playoff series against the New York Rangers on Monday at Scotiabank Place. Alfredsson was knocked out of Saturday’s game midway through the second period when he was elbowed in the [...]
Why they won The Senators didn’t give up and answered to the Rangers physical play, receiving a goal late in regulation from Nick Foligno and the game winner from Chris Neil. Stud Chris Neil, Senators Erik Karlsson was dominant, but Neil was in the right spot, backhanding the game winner past Henrik Lundqvist 1:17 into [...]
When Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson stares down the ice Thursday night at Madison Square Garden to open the playoffs, he’ll be looking at the King of New York. That would be Henrik Lundqvist, a top candidate to win the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top regular season netminder, the guy Anderson labels as “the [...]
The coaching match-up between the Senators’ Paul MacLean and the Rangers’ John Tortorella could be labelled the mustache versus the mouth. While MacLean has no interest in a war of words with the fiery, f-bomb slinging Tortorella — “all I’m going to do is work real hard to coach my team and that’s what my [...]
Okay, Ottawa Senators fans. Captain Daniel Alfredsson is putting the pressure on you. Alfredsson likens the current edition of the Senators to the unlikely 1997 squad which qualified for the post-season – the first playoff appearance in the modern history of the franchise. “Nobody expected us to do much, but we worked really hard to get [...]
When it comes to the value of experience in the NHL playoffs, one image springs immediately to mind. It was a picture splashed across the front of the Citizen sports section on April 20, 2007: Pittsburgh Penguins stars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal, all wearing faraway stares in the Penguins’ dressing room following their first-round defeat to the more-experienced Senators.