The Ottawa Senators will go with their No. 1 goaltender on opening day after all.
After a year as head coach of the Ottawa Senators, Paul MacLean should be feeling a little more comfortable.
As Ottawa Senators team staff loaded players’ hockey bags for a trip to the airport Thursday, Cody Ceci shook a few hands and took one last look around the dressing room.
Among the sports journalists who cover the Ottawa Senators, he is sometimes referred to as “The Franchise.”
Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray continues to play an intriguing waiting game. The team’s biggest question mark remains the NHL inexperience at the bottom end of the defence depth chart, filling the holes left injuries to Jared Cowen and Mike Lundin. Meanwhile, every day, it seems, one potential stabilizing veteran defenceman with connections to Ottawa disappears from consideration as a replacement.
This time around, the Senators won’t be sneaking up on any … prognosticators.
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