There was quite the Ottawa flavour on the bluelines Monday. Marc Methot, Erik Karlsson’s new defence partner, was doing his best Monday morning to ignore the flood of emails and texts wishing him well in his home debut and he guessed Scotiabank Place was filled with “a couple of hundred people I actually know.”
Robin Lehner won’t become a restricted free agent following the 2013 season, according to his agent, Craig Oster – contrary to reports that surfaced last week.
For more than six months, Marc Methot has waited patiently for the chance to play alongside Norris Trophy winning defenceman Erik Karlsson on the Ottawa Senators blueline.
Ottawa Senators defenceman Marc Methot says he’ll be sure to watch Erik Karlsson’s back when he’s jumping up into the play. Please enable Javascript to watch this video
“Unfortunately, with something like this, it’s going to pretty much be doom and gloom until a deal gets done. I don’t think there’s going to be a build up, like ‘things are going really well’. One day, we’re going to wake up and it will be over, I think. That’s how it happened last time.” — Ottawa Senators centre Jason Spezza, Sept. 14, 2012.
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 [...]
Once upon a time, Marc Methot would get excited with each new development in negotiations to reach a new collective bargaining agreement between NHL owners and players, thinking the end of the lockout could be near. “Not anymore,” the Ottawa Senators defenceman said Monday, following an off-ice workout at the Bell Sensplex. “For the first [...]