Stephanie and Luke Richardson are smiling widely as they provide a tour of their surprising discovery, a stylishly-decorated converted commercial loft where they now live.
By now, the Senators should be finishing up their first week of training camp. Local sports talk would be knee-deep in rink reports on the progress of such promising prospects as Jakob Silfverberg, Mark Stone and Mika Zibanejad. Instead, those three and other young Senators are in Binghamton, N.Y., getting for the start of the B-Sens AHL camp. Not first prize, in other words.
Erik Karlsson isn’t heading home to Sweden after all. After revealing last week he planned to spend the NHL lockout playing for former squad Frolunda, the Senators’ star defenceman was instead scooped up by Helsinki-based Jokerit of the Finnish Elite League (SM-liiga) Wednesday.
Milan Michalek is a man in the middle. On one hand, Michalek, the Ottawa Senators star left winger, is now skating regularly with his locked out teammates. Unlike the others, however, Michalek is welcome inside Scotiabank Place.
Jason Spezza chose to take the high road Monday, opting not to get into a loud verbal fight with Detroit Red Wings senior vice-president Jim Devellano.
The path is seemingly clear for Erik Karlsson to go back home to Sweden and receive the red carpet treatment, playing for as long as the National Hockey League lockout lasts. Karlsson wants to return to Frolunda, where he was a star for two seasons before going on to even greater fame here with the [...]
So, what do you if you’re a locked out National Hockey League player? If you’re Jason Spezza, you head off for a new hockey adventure in the Swiss Alps. If you’re Marc Methot, you take boxing lessons. If you’re Kyle Turris, you pick apples. Seriously.