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Tuesday's Best NHL Picks: Sens Happy For Road Trip

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: December 3, 2013

Puck Luck Ottawa Senators at Florida Panthers (-110, 5) You have to think the Senators are happy to get Daniel Alfredsson’s return to Ottawa behind them. They hung around with Detroit for a while Sunday but ultimately took their sixth loss in the last eight games. The Sens are much better on the road this...

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Saturday NHL odds & picks: Oilers running out of excuses

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 18, 2013

Yes, it’s still early, but the Edmonton Oilers are running out of excuses in a hurry. First off, enough with dubbing them the “young Oilers” already, because they really aren’t all that young anymore. Sure, they have young players they’re counting on right now, but they do have players with a lot of experience too....

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NHL odds & ends: Hockey Night in Canada Saturday betting picks

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 11, 2013

When the Toronto Maple Leafs started James Reimer in Montreal for the first game of the season, most agreed he had earned the first crack at the No. 1 job. He was the goaltender who led the Leafs into the playoffs last season and looked sharper than the new kid in town, Jonathan Bernier, during...

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Bobby Ryan gets first taste of Ottawa Senators media

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 8, 2013

Ottawa Senators sniper Bobby Ryan is quickly realizing on the hockey map, Anaheim couldn’t get much further away from Ottawa in every possible sense. In Anaheim, players are free to go about their on-ice and off-ice lives without a care in the world. Sure they’ll do a couple of postgame interviews, but it’s not like...

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Ottawa Senators named top Canadian team in ESPN poll

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: September 24, 2013

As far as ESPN is concerned, there is no team better than the Ottawa Senators north of the border. In ESPN’s annual poll, it has the Senators ninth overall out of 122 pro sports franchises in North America. The Sens were No. 3 overall among NHL teams (trailing only the Pittsburgh Penguins and Anaheim Ducks)...

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Daniel Alfredsson pulls no punches in Ottawa presser

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 15, 2013

When former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson finally spoke to media in the nation’s capital this morning, he didn’t throw the Sens management under the bus. But he didn’t take any blame for leaving the team either. In the end, it played out just as we all expected. Alfredsson had helped the team out with...

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Flyers, Lecavalier help Briere, Horton in free agent market

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 4, 2013

The NHL free agency open market kicks off Friday and while there will surely be a flurry of deals to analyze, the biggest of those reportedly already went down when the Philadelphia Flyers agreed to terms with former Tampa Bay Lightning captain Vincent Lecavalier. While no less than 12 teams were rumored to be interested...

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Don’t Count Out Daniel Alfredsson and the Senators Yet

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: May 23, 2013

Al Dannity says that despite Alfredsson saying it’s unlikely the Senators will beat the Penguins, it’s still too early to rule out this Ottawa team. Trailing 3-1 with a captain old as they come and about to hit the road, there’s not a lot to like about the Senators’ chances. Throw in a deep, really...

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NHL East Playoff Preview: Final Pairings

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: April 29, 2013

The seedings in this conference went down to the last day of the season. Ottawa’s 4-2 road victory in Boston helps the Montreal Canadiens win the Northeast Division, and the two teams will face each other in the first round of the NHL playoffs. Here is a look at that and the other three series...

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Erik Karlsson Confirms Return to Senators Thursday vs. Capitals

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: April 25, 2013

Against all odds, reigning Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson will return to the Ottawa Senators’ lineup Thursday night against the Washington Capitals, according to his official Twitter account. “BOOM.! FINALLY.! Back in the line up tonight,” Karlsson tweeted just after noon on Thursday. Karlsson, who suffered a severed Achilles’ tendon in February, has been skating...

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Erik Karlsson Skates, Eyes Early Return To Ottawa Senators

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: April 9, 2013

Karlsson hopes to play in regular season after Achilles’ injury When Erik Karlsson crumpled in the corner, reaching for the back of his leg after a collision with Matt Cooke, everybody knew it was bad news. The look on Karlsson’s face said it all long before doctors announced that he had suffered a severed Achilles’...

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Ottawa Senators Defenceman Erik Karlsson Won't be Ready for Playoffs

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: March 26, 2013

Erik Karlsson, who has not seen a game with the Ottawa Senators since his Achilles tendon was cut by Matt Cooke of the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 13, spoke during the first intermission of the Sens game on Monday regarding his condition. “It’s going well… baby steps, but overall it’s been feeling pretty good ever...

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NHL Give and Go: Lightning Could Learn From Senators

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: March 22, 2013

NHL Saturday night betting odds and preview When the reigning Norris Trophy winner, Erik Karlsson went down with a gruesome Achilles’ tendon injury, the Ottawa Senators’ future looked bleak. Then Jason Spezza hit the shelf with a back injury before the floodgates really opened. From there, Craig Anderson, Marc Methot, Milan Michalek also suffered serious...

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NHL: Senators Owner Fires First Shots In Erik Karlsson Sweepstakes

• Joe LaTengo

• Last Updated: May 1, 2012

Eugene Melnyk is no stranger to negotiation. As founder of the specialty pharmaceutical giant Biovail Corporation, he’s accustomed to not only getting what he wants but getting it at a good price too. Along with a horse-racing stable in Florida, Melnyk is also the owner of two small-market hockey teams: the Mississisauga St. Michael’s Majors...

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NHL Playoffs: Rangers Must Confront Surprising Senators

• Joe LaTengo

• Last Updated: April 8, 2012

They came within a game of winning the President’s Trophy, but that doesn’t matter now. The New York Rangers proved themselves to be the class of the Eastern Conference, and in the first round of the playoffs they will face an Ottawa Senators team which has confounded almost all predictions. The Broadway Blueshirts benefited from...

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NHL: Blues and Red Wings Headline Monday’s Slate

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: January 23, 2012

The Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues meet at the Joe Louis Arena with first place in the NHL at stake. Al Dannity breaks down this clash of Central Division rivals and the best of the rest from tonight’s slate. We’ll have this dance again Seeing Detroit atop the standings is nothing new. Seeing...

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Leafs face Jets, Canucks play Kings on Last CBC-TV Hockey Night of 2011

• Joe LaTengo

• Last Updated: December 30, 2011

The gigantic lighted ball on top of One Times Square in New York City will do its classic descent on New Year’s Eve, indicating the end of 2011. Several hours before that, the puck will drop on the last Hockey Night In Canada of the year. Joe LaTengo puts on his party hat. Should auld...

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Leafs' Strong Start to Continue at Boston?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 20, 2011

There’s a big slate of hockey games on tonight – Frank Doyle looks at three of the best! How about those Maple Leafs? The sleeping giant of hockey is off to a 4-0-1 start this year but Toronto starts a four game road trip tonight that will test the Maple mettle. Toronto visits Boston tonight,...

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Will Montreal Headhunt Chara at Boston Tonight?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: March 24, 2011

Frank Doyle anticipates strife when Montreal and Boston renew acquaintances in Beantown tonight. There’s always been something of a frontier spirit about hockey. A feeling that due process is all very well but sometimes you’ve just got to shoot a man a down to keep the peace in Dodge. This will be a source of...

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Bruins Still the Winners as Deadline Passes

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: March 1, 2011

Frank Doyle searches through the trades to see if anything made a difference, and looks back at an interesting weekend’s hockey. Stanley Cups have been won in the past on trade deadline day. That’s unlikely to happen this year. Deadline day came and went yesterday without one trade that made people sit back and think:...