Buffalo has been decidedly mediocre — a 15-12-2 record, scoring and allowing 79 goals — barely clinging to a playoff position.
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.
Suddenly, Jared Cowen is sporting Zdeno Chara and Chris Pronger-type numbers. He’s on the ice almost half the time for the Ottawa Senators. In Saturday’s 4-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks, Cowen played 25:43, matched up much of that time against the Sedin twins. In Thursday’s 5-4 shootout loss to the New Jersey Devils, the [...]
Peter Regin gives assistant coach Luke Richardson a big assist for helping him get back in the Ottawa Senators lineup Saturday night – eight weeks after he was originally sidelined with another left shoulder setback.
Matt Carkner says it will be business as usual when he returns to National Hockey League game action Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks.
It’s too easy to dismiss the Ottawa Senators string of third period collapses as simply the product of youth. At least coach Paul MacLean isn’t buying that.
If you haven’t heard it before, here it is again: don’t ever, ever, turn off the TV or leave the building early when the Ottawa Senators are playing.
Regardless of how much Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean chooses to use Matt Carkner when he returns to the lineup – most likely Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks – it won’t come close to his recent American Hockey League experience.