Following a long day spent near the scene of the Boston Marathon tragedy, the Ottawa Senators were scheduled to fly home following the postponement of Monday’s scheduled game against the Boston Bruins.
Few National Hockey League players grew up dreaming of becoming penalty killing specialists in the big leagues.
It was, as the kids like to say these days, an “awkward” few moments inside the Ottawa Senators dressing room following practice Wednesday.
Everything in life is relative and in the case of the injury-ravaged Ottawa Senators, injuries which turn out to be minor are now being regarded as positive news.
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.
A few games back, Senators winger Erik Condra joked that when a long shootout comes, coach Paul MacLean simply puts all the players’ names in a hat, closes his eyes and picks out those who will get a chance to shoot.