Let the punditry begin. The Sports Forecaster hockey yearbook hit newsstands today, on the same day The Hockey News released its prediction for the last place teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences. If you’re on this web site, you’re not gonna like the results.

Sportsbooks have pegged the Senators as longshots in the race for the Northeast Division crown.

Here’s a local TV report on Senators first round draft pick and admitted Leafs fan Matt Puempel.

So I was in Chapters yesterday and picked up The Hockey News Ultimate Fantasy Pool Guide to see how the magazine saw the Senators’ season shaking out. If you put any value into its projections, then you might be best to bet unders next season.

We want to know what you think.

Ah the hazy days of summer, when the sun shines, the beer flows and the news is hard to come by. Thanks for stepping up, Alex Kovalev. Okay, so L’Artiste taking verbal shots at coaches and members of the media isn’t really news, but we’ll take what we can get around here at this point.

Upon his arrival in Russia to begin his two-year contract with the KHL team Atlant Mytischi, Alex Kovalev took aim at the NHL, and in particular Ottawa, where he spent the last two years During an interview with Pavel Lysenkov of Sovetsky Sport, Kovalev thrashed both Ottawa sports writers – “They don’t watch hockey at [...]