Marc Methot was feeling at home. Just like the rest of the NHL players who call Ottawa home and visited the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Tuesday afternoon, Methot was smiling, joking and laughing as he stooped down to sign autographs for a group of assembled sick children, some of them in wheelchairs, others attached [...]
Dan Boyle offered the smallest glimmer of optimism Monday for NHL fans hoping the lockout will end soon. Boyle, the Ottawa native and star San Jose Sharks defenceman, brought his equipment from California for his 10-day holiday stay back home. Just in case he needs to pick up his practice pace in a hurry. “That’s [...]
When Kyle Turris returned from playing in Finland a few days ago, he found himself without any of his customized top-of-the-line composite sticks.
From a distance, it’s clear Tracey Crabtree is a passionate Ottawa Senators and National Hockey League fan. As she strolled through the busy Bayshore Shopping Centre with her friend Tanya Bruce at lunchtime Wednesday, she was sporting a Senators baseball cap. A closer look revealed a Senators tattoo on her left leg. Crabtree regularly helps out with charity fundraising during games at Scotiabank Place. Her aunt is a season-ticket holder.
Win or lose, the world juniors nearly always capture the hearts of this hockey nation. Teenage rockstars on TSN’s holiday sports viewing stage. Rarely, though, is a Canadian team so assured of seizing our full attention — perhaps even prompting alarm clocks to go off at ungodly hours.
Hopefully, nobody has gone to any great trouble to throw Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson a grand birthday surprise party on Tuesday.
Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson insists NHL players are still standing firmly behind players’ association boss Donald Fehr.