Now more than one-third of the way through the Ottawa Senators’ shortened season, the numbers are staggering. Consider the following: The combined salaries of the team’s injured players – Jason Spezza, Erik Karlsson, Milan Michalek, Guillaume Latendresse and Peter Regin – is a whopping $20.663 million, according to capgeek.com. That works out to 39 per cent of the Senators payroll of $53.553 million.
André Benoit and David Dziurzynski scored their first NHL goals and the Ottawa Senators beat the New York Islanders 3-1 on Tuesday night.
Early in his tenure as Ottawa Senators coach, Paul MacLean said that young NHL players must learn that having a great game once in a while isn’t enough. MacLean said that incoming players have to remember the best game they had in junior and duplicate it every night in the big leagues.
Daniel Alfredsson ends the Senators’ goal-scoring drought and Ottawa ends its losing slide with a 2-1 shootout victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday.
A look at Senators games coming up this week.
If the first game without Erik Karlsson is any indication, the rest of the schedule isn’t going to be a picnic for the Ottawa Senators.
The Ottawa Senators organization is looking to give its players as many safety equipment options as possible after losing star defenceman Erik Karlsson for the season.