On Tuesday, Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean gave a huge pat on the back to Daniel Alfredsson for helping lead the team into the playoffs. “For me, Alfie deserves a lot of credit,” MacLean said, when asked about Alfredsson’s leadership qualities. “I think he does an outstanding job and he has made my job way [...]
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 though they’ve already clinched a playoff spot, the Ottawa Senators insist they’ll continue to push as hard as possible in their final three regular season games, including Tuesday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes.
It’s all gravy now for the Ottawa Senators.
Turns out that Chris Wideman suffered an upper body injury in the final game of his collegiate career with the Miami Redhawks. Wideman, selected in the fourth round of the 2009 draft (100th overall) by the Senators, officially signed a two-year contract with the Senators on Wednesday. He was originally expected to finish out the [...]
As the upstart Ottawa Senators aim to secure a playoff berth in the next few days, Chris Phillips is offering his share of advice to the club’s younger defencemen. He knows his mutterings only go so far, though. “Those are just words and if they listened that well, I would be telling them to [...]
Encouraged by the victories over the Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets, Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray is cautiously optimistic that his team has what it takes to make the final push to make the playoffs. But Murray, speaking before Thursday night’s crucial match-up between the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins, believed that 94 [...]
Ottawa Senators winger Nick Foligno wants his kid brother, Marcus, to continue to shine with Buffalo, but there are limits to his brotherly pride.