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Prospect Update - November 29th
Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Belleville Senators: still cursed when it comes to injuries This week I’ll just start with the infirmary to get it out of the way: Jonathan Aspirot, Jacob Bernard-Docker, Roby Järventie, Viktor Lodin, and Mads Søgaard remain sidelined as you probably already know. Ridly Greig and Philippe Daoust join that list, with Daoust out for the remainder of the season. Total bummer. I’ve embraced the role of cheerleader for Daoust for a while now and this marks the second time he’ll miss most of a season since the Ottawa...
Silver Seven Nov 28, 2022
Monday LNN: Sens’ Season Saved?
Photo by Juan Ocampo/NHLI via It feels good to win, baby What a difference a few days makes. After Wednesday night’s defeat against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Ottawa Senators were 6-12-1 and on the wrong end of 2-10-1 streak. Since then, the Sens have played two of their better games in picking up back-to-back wins against the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings. 8-12-1 is not exactly a play-off calibre record, but the embers of hope are there. Dare to dream. After last night’s triumph over the Kings, Ian Mendes asks: have the Senators salvaged their...
Silver Seven Nov 28, 2022
Senators Get the Job Done with 3-2 OT Win in Los Angeles
Photo by Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire via Ottawa gets their first OT win of the season and wins back-to-back games to finish their four-game road trip Sunday night at 10:30 pm EST: the perfect time for Ottawa Senators hockey! The Senators were in Los Angeles tonight to face the Kings as they wrapped up a four-game western road trip. They had lost the first two but beaten the Anaheim Ducks on Friday, giving them a chance to head home an even split on the trip. It was also the exact one-year anniversary of one the funniest things to ever happen in a Senators game,...
Silver Seven Nov 27, 2022
Game 21 Hub: Senators @ Kings
Photo by Richard A. Whittaker/Icon Sportswire via Brady Tkachuk faces Brendan Lemieux on the one year anniversary of The Bite! Exactly one year ago today, the Ottawa Senators wrapped up their annual west coast swing with a visit to the Los Angeles Kings. They began that game a desperate team, their season already all but over after a disastrous start. They left battered, bruised... and bitten. Brady Tkachuk and Brendan Lemieux have not met on the ice since that night. It seems fitting, then, that the much-anticipated rematch would happen on the one-year anniversary of...
Silver Seven Nov 26, 2022
Weekly Question
Photo by Ben Coles/NHLI via What do the Ottawa Senators want? [Exhales] Welcome, my friend, to that worst time of the year when you have to listen to your colleagues talk about all the crap they plan on buying. The holidays stink! All the capitalist greed makes me sick. But, like everything else, we can make this about the Ottawa Senators. And, in the spirit of Sensifying the season, I want to know what you think Pierre Dorion should shop for most aggressively in the coming days and weeks. And, NO, you cannot say a head coach because everyone has heard that one before....
Silver Seven Nov 25, 2022
Talbot Blanks Ducks
The Ottawa Senators used a strong penalty kill and powerplay to pick up a win on the road against the Anaheim Ducks. With a very out of the ordinary 3pm Friday game, the Senators visited the Anaheim Ducks this afternoon for the third game of their west coast road trip. Coming in without a win on this trip, the Sens were looking to work towards a place where the effort and identity they preach resulted in two points at the final buzzer. With Thomas Chabot back in the lineup, let’s see how things went this afternoon. The Sens had a very familiar start to this game. Through the...
Silver Seven Nov 25, 2022
Game 20 Hub: Senators @ Ducks
Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY Sports It’s the movable object against the stoppable force for your afternoon viewing Here’s my guarantee to you: By the time this day is over, the Ottawa Senators will not be tied for last place in the NHL. I have to wonder if the NHL schedule makers knew something we didn’t, when they managed to schedule the game between the two bottom teams for a time that large chunks of one of the fan bases will be working. Yesterday’s skate was an optional, and there is no pre-game skate today due to the start time, so no lineups are available....
Silver Seven Nov 25, 2022
Five Thoughts for Friday: The Problem(s) with the Ottawa Senators
Photo by Ethan Miller/ What, exactly, is going wrong? A little over three weeks ago, I wrote a piece entitled “The Ottawa Senators Will Be OK”. At the time of the writing, the Sens were coming off three straight defeats and some of the sheen of the early season enthusiasm was already starting to wear off. The gist of the piece was that, yes, things looked bad right at that moment but that the overall composition of the team was still good. There was lots to look forward to. In effect: don’t worry. Since then, the Sens have gone 2-7-1 and quite possibly already...
Silver Seven Nov 24, 2022
Sens Ownership War, Trade Season Starts, NHL Fights Back and More
Photo by Richard A. Whittaker/Icon Sportswire via Thursday’s Edition of the Links, News and Notes Another week and another trip around the hockey world to get you the latest and most exciting news. Let us delve into what this week has for us in the Thursday edition of the links, news and notes. It seems Ryan Reynolds has put the Ottawa Senators on the map and now everyone wants a piece. While we are some time away from getting a clearer ideas of who all the interested parties are; this week has brought in some more interesting names. It seems the Sens are generating...
Silver Seven Nov 24, 2022
Ottawa Senators Can’t Find Answers in the Desert, Lose 4-1
Photo by Zak Krill/NHLI via The nightmare continues The first period of this game went about as well as the Ottawa Senators could have hoped against a Vegas team currently sitting atop the Western Conference standings. The Jack Eichel line came out firing, as one would expect, but Cam Talbot had arguably his best start so far as a Senator and helped Ottawa weather the early storm while the rest of the team found its legs. The Sens, it seemed, sacrificed some five-on-five offence to play a sounder game and it payed dividends throughout the period. The Sens used the...
Silver Seven Nov 23, 2022
Game 19 Hub: Senators @ Golden Knights
Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY Sports Bright light city gonna set the season, gonna set the season on fire (one way or another) The Ottawa Senators season is on life support and the clock is ticking. After leaving two points on the table in San Jose, they come into Vegas nine points behind Detroit for the second wild card spot. The stakes won’t get much higher. This is the toughest opponent of the trip, too. The Vegas Golden Knights are running away with the West at 31 points, only behind Boston and New Jersey for the league lead. If there’s one thing to hang some hope...
Silver Seven Nov 22, 2022
Sokolov, Greig Heat Up for BSens
Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/ The Belleville Senators split their weekend series with Egor Sokolov and Ridly Greig heating up at the right time for the club. It was a tough weekend for the Belleville Senators as they faced off against the Toronto Marlies and Syracuse Crunch in back-to-back games at CAA Arena. Both North Division rivals, this was an important pair of games for the BSens, who have been hovering in the middle of the division standings for the last few weeks. On Friday night, with Toronto in town, Belleville came out flying. The first period was scoreless,...
Silver Seven Nov 22, 2022
Prospect Update: November 21st
Photo by Chris Tanouye/ Plenty of noise out of Belleville, Sweden, and the CHL this week. After showing up the rest of the prospect pool (and a good chunk of the NHL squad as well), your weekly prospect updates courtesy of Silver Seven Sens are now 100% Jake Sanderson-free. We hope these changes are satisfactory in the service of your Sens prospecting needs. Forwards Egor Sokolov It’s crunch time for Sokolov now. Following his second-round selection as an overager back in 2020, he’s played two full seasons in Belleville as a solid offensive contributor. After this...
Silver Seven Nov 22, 2022
Senators Keep Hitting New Lows After 5-1 Loss in San Jose
Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/ The San Jose Sharks had just one win at home all season—until tonight when they defeated Ottawa 5-1 On Saturday, the Ottawa Senators were simply outclassed by a superior New Jersey Devils team that has now won 13 games in a row. Although Ottawa then headed out west for a four-game road trip, and their matchup against the San Jose Sharks represented a great opportunity to not get into another losing streak. The Sharks came into tonight with the 31st points percentage in the NHL, one of only two teams below the Senators. What’s amazing...
Silver Seven Nov 21, 2022
Game #18 Hub: Sens @ Sharks
Photo by André Ringuette/NHLI via The Sens are 1-0-0 when I write the preview this season. Do what you will with that information. Ah, the California road trip. I remember during my first years as an avid fan of the Ottawa Senators, a three-game gauntlet that even the best east coast teams had better been prepared for. These days, not so much. You’ve got the 11-8-2 Los Angeles Kings, ok fair enough, but I’m tilting my head looking at that -4 goal differential, which is actually worse than your 6-10-1 Ottawa Senators. This isn’t forced positivity, by the way,...
