Future generations will look back at this era and wonder. They’ll wonder how it was that a relatively sophisticated professional sport, one that supposedly cared about player safety, would not only allow big, strong players to crack each other in the skull with bare knuckles, it would encourage it.
Robin Lehner was in no mood to celebrate the 42 saves he made in regulation and overtime against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.
MONTREAL – Even though Matt (“Meat and Potatoes”) Kassian says his game isn’t that complicated – he’s an old-fashioned, 6-5, 232-pound fourth line heavyweight – his old pal Guillaume Latendresse insists he’s an open book off the ice.
A running joke Tuesday was that Kaspars Daugavins was a leading candidate to become the new Pope.
After all, his name was everywhere you turned on the Internet. Hockey traditionalists were outraged at Daugavins, suggesting the Ottawa Senators left winger broke some type of Cardinal sin within the hockey world for his unique shootout attempt in Monday’s 3-2 loss to the Boston Bruins.
It’s supposed to be a metaphor, that slumping hockey players “grip their sticks tighter.” Zack Smith of the Ottawa Senators can tell you it’s quite real. Mired in a horrific goal-scoring slump dating back to March 8, 2012, the big centre was gripping his stick so tight it hurt the palm of his right hand. [...]
The Senators express their views on NHL realignment.
Coaches Paul MacLean and Randy Carlyle have taken a similar approach to handling their teams and it’s paying off so far.