NEW YORK – Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean wouldn’t confirm it, but it looks as if Mark Stone will make his NHL debut in the fifth game of this best-of-seven series against the New York Rangers. After the morning skate, which was optional, MacLean would only say he was keeping all options open. But Stone [...]
The Ottawa Senators take on the New York Rangers in Game 5 of their quarterfinal series. Which team will come out on top? Our prediction panel weighs in.
The Ottawa Senators confidence is too subtle to be labeled a swagger, but they’re feeling awfully good about themselves leading up to Saturday’s Game 5 in their deadlocked series against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
This series between the Senators and Rangers has come full circle. At the outset, it pitted the eighth seed from Ottawa, playing with house money, against a first-place Rangers team expected to drape itself in glory. The pressure, the expectations to advance, were all on New York in a playoff round that, for the Senators, was already icing on a pleasantly surprising treat of a regular season. And now?
The Ottawa Senators had yet another new face on the ice for practice before leaving for New York on Friday.
Hold the phone, Ottawa Senators fans.
See video from Senators practice on Friday.