We’re off. Photographer Julie Oliver and I are on our way to the North — way, way North — to watch the Ottawa Senators’ Craig Anderson, Chris Phillips, Chris Neil, Zack Smith, Marc Methot, Guillaume Latendresse and fellow NHLers Grant Clitsome, Jordin Tootoo, Jim Slater and others for a three-game charity tour of the Northwest Territories and Yukon.
Coming soon to a TV near you: a public service announcement from rugged Senators winger Chris Neil about the plight of starving children in West Africa. Neil, former Senators centre Mike Fisher and Vancouver Canucks defenceman Kevin Bieksa will be featured in TV spots produced by World Vision Canada. “It’s such a great cause,” Neil [...]
Matt Carkner is still waiting to hear if the Ottawa Senators want him back next season, but that hasn’t stopped the rugged defenceman from doing his part to make hockey available to countless special needs children around the city.
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 [...]
SHORT HILLS, New Jersey – Chris Neil will be OK for the playoffs. That was the good news from Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean on Saturday morning. Neil is still aching from crashing head-first into the boards during a shootout drill at the end of Friday’s practice, but the Senators expect him to be ready [...]
SHORT HILLS, New Jersey — It was supposed to be a bit of fun at the end of practice. All the players assembled at centre ice and, after sorting out the rules, Zack Smith got the shootout started. He tried to squeeze a shot through Ben Bishop but couldn’t. Then came Chris Neil. He came [...]
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