He’s working with his eighth Senators head coach, his sixth general manager, employed by the third club owner.
About Wayne Scanlan
It has been my pleasure to carry a flag for the Citizen sports department for 25 years, and a privilege to write a column since 1991. As the NHL Senators took over our town, I shifted in the mid-1990s from a general sports columnist to a mostly hockey guy. Representing this newspaper and its chain I have covered men's and women's hockey at several Olympic Games. London was my 10th Olympic assignment, as part of the Postmedia team at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in England.
Along the ride I have been fortunate to cover the Tour de France, twice, and numerous Stanley Cup playoffs and Grey Cup championships. The Senators will dictate further travel plans.
The Senators have launched a full-court press to boost season ticket sales.
Penny for your thoughts, Senators fans, on this Rick Nash thing. Are you sending general manager Bryan Murray encouraging texts about his Nash flirtations, or is the message more along the lines of . . . For God’s sake, Bryan, no Nash – keep the cash. You will need it down the road. Assistant GM [...]
It’s hard to imagine now — when Daniel Alfredsson reigns as Ottawa’s Swedish-born king, with Erik Karlsson the well-heeled heir apparent — but Swedes weren’t always so prevalent among the ranks of the Ottawa Senators.
Even while celebrating his new seven-year, $45-million deal – a cap hit of $6.5 million — in the giddy, glitzy venues of Las Vegas, even while joking with a Sportsnet interviewer that “what goes on in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” Erik Karlsson is keenly aware of all of that comes with this contract.
When the NHL general managers met during the most recent Stanley Cup final, there was an empty chair at the table. Bryan Murray of the Ottawa Senators played hooky. He went AWOL, in a manner of speaking, although Murray did inform the NHL’s senior VP of Hockey Operations, Colin Campbell, that he wouldn’t be there. The NHL’s change of meeting date conflicted with Murray’s date — with a certain woman named Geri.
Over so soon? Wars have been won and lost in less time than the NHL requires to appoint a worthy champion — and it has one in the Los Angeles Kings, the team that made a Western Conference No. 8 seed look like an Indy 500 pole position.