CORNWALL, Ont. — While the NHL lockout has left many hockey fans crying in their beer, there was dancing in the stands at the presence of NHL players here Monday night. A crowd of 4,800 showed up at the Cornwall Civic Complex, paying $20 each for the right to see long lost locked out big-league [...]
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has no plans to sell the team now or in the future.
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.
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.
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.
At almost playoff-like intensity, emotions run hot in a lockout. NHL management and teams, individual players and the players association are spending more time, sadly, trying to shape public perception and win the public relations war than they are trying to negotiate a lockout-smiting Collective Bargaining Agreement. Eventually, this will change. In quieter days ahead, [...]