Former Senators owner Rod Bryden doesn’t foresee a day when Ottawa hockey fans line up, lemming-like, to watch the home team regardless of its quality.
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 story of how the Senators came to be has been told and retold, and for those who relish NHL hockey in this town, it doesn’t get old. On Wednesday, the story gets etched a little deeper into the Ottawa sports consciousness, our version of a footprint in Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Don’t expect unrestricted free agent defenceman Filip Kuba to be back in an Ottawa Senators uniform next season.
In August, the NHL plans to round up a posse of general managers, coaches, players and officials to discuss the state of the game and how rules are enforced.
Patrick Wiercioch gets behind the wheel of the monster truck ‘Crushstation’ and drives it the way a person might after a life-altering experience: Cautiously.
Canadian Olympic star Clara Hughes will be wearing purple and doing it “for Daron” at the Gatineau Grand Prix bike races this weekend. On her blog entry today, Hughes said she drew great inspiration here last year from Daron Richardson, the Ottawa teenager who took her own life in 2010. Daron, of course, is the [...]
If the Ottawa Senators needed further proof that they punched above their weight class this season, they have it in NHL award nominations.