For a small taste of the joie de vivre Ottawa Senators left winger Guillaume Latendresse owns, let’s take you back to late November in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, a good 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.
Welcome to the cyberspace spotlight, Kaspars Daugavins.
For a guy who has scored exactly zero goals in 17 games this season, the Senators fourth line winger was trending all over the hockey world late Monday night and early Tuesday morning for his unique – and ultimately failed – shootout attempt during the Senators’ 3-2 shootout loss to the Boston Bruins.
The Senators poked the bear Monday and, after 65 minutes, the Bruins poked back.
Milan Michalek’s troublesome knee issues have re-appeared. The concern now is whether Michalek will need surgery to fix the problems permanently. Michalek has had surgery on both of his knees during his career.
The good news for the Ottawa Senators is that Guillaume Latendresse will finally be back in the lineup Monday against the Boston Bruins, after missing the past 18 games with migraines and whiplash-related problems.
Mika Zibanejad is getting comfortable in the Sens’ lineup and more news and notes.
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.