Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson will be headliner in Monday’s charity game in Cornwall, featuring several other Senators players and other players locked out from other NHL teams. “It’s for a great cause,” Alfredsson confirmed in a text message Sunday night. The game, at the Cornwall Civic Complex (7:30 p.m.) is the first of a [...]
Once in a while, even the NHL stumbles upon the perfect scenario. So it seemed, as hockey fans conjured images of the 2013 Winter Classic: A record-breaking crowd of 110,000 people jammed into Michigan Stadium, the Big House, to see the Toronto Maple Leafs play the Detroit Red Wings on New Year’s Day, a few flurries dancing in the air, enhancing the romantic notion of old-time, outdoor hockey.
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk can expect to hear from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. And it won’t be to talk about the weather.
Within the next few days, John Chabot is hoping to finalize plans for a charity tour by locked-out NHL players that would see them play at least one game in this area and two or three in the Northwest Territories.
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk says fans don’t care who’s at fault for the NHL lockout, they just want to see some hockey.
It’s been a bad week for hockey fans, hasn’t it? Last Thursday was supposed to be the beginning of the end of the NHL’s lockout, a day for the owners and players to put their heads down and come up with a deal to preserve an 82-game schedule. Instead, both sides carried on with their hollow, spiteful war of words, to the intense anger or, increasingly, apathy of the fans who actually fund their business.
John Chabot is hoping a little northern exposure can put a bright light on the NHL lockout. Chabot is working on plans to bring locked out NHLers, including the Ottawa Senators players he’s currently helping coach, on an exhibition tour of northern Canadian communities.