Say this for Senators head coach Paul MacLean. He knows the value in at least trying to keep a young hockey team from getting discouraged, emotionally down, over what could be the most discouraging news possible: getting shut out by Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers in Game 3 AND losing the services of captain Daniel Alfredsson from a hit in Game 2 of this NHL Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.
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.
Foligno: “We tried to dig down and find a way to win without Alfie.”
Fans in Ottawa still ‘Believe It!’ is possible. How else to think after this dramatic 1-0 spectacle, with the Senators still very much in this playoff series with the top-seeded New York Rangers, who lead two games to one. Despite the loss, witnesses will tell say they caught one of the most intense playoff games [...]
The overtime goal by Chris Neil did so much more than win a hockey game. It has energized the Senators “family” of players and fans, and breathed new life into a Stanley Cup playoff series that risked tilting the other direction had the Rangers held serve on home ice. Ask yourselves this question, Senator Nation: [...]
NEW YORK — Remember when the Ottawa Senators and New York Rangers didn’t know each other well enough to generate hatred? That seems to have passed. So has the Rangers’ lead in a series no one is calling boring anymore. A Chris Neil overtime winner has pumped life into the Senators and this NHL Eastern [...]
Senators general manager Bryan Murray wants the team to free up some space for Erik Karlsson, Ottawa’s Norris Trophy candidate and offensive trigger who was held off the scoresheet and targeted physically by the New York Rangers in Game 1 of the opening playoff series.
NEW YORK — For two years, fans of the Ottawa Senators have looked forward to seeing their team in a playoff game again. Now they’d like to erase the memory of Game 1 versus the New York Rangers about as quickly as it happened. Considering how many things went wrong for Ottawa in this Broadway [...]