Silver Seven Mar 25, 2023
Game 73 Hub: Sens @ Devils
Photo by Richard A. Whittaker/Icon Sportswire via The Devils! THE DEVILS!!!! The Senators are coming off maybe their most convincing win of the season, a 7-2 shellacking of the Lightning on Thursday. Meanwhile, this Devils team lost a 5-4 decision to the Sabres last night. A rested Sens team brimming with confidence should win this one, so who knows what will actually happen? No morning skate but DJ Smith did mention in his availability that Jakob Chychrun will miss a couple of weeks with a lower body injury, and Ridly Greig is done for the year with a sternum injury....
Silver Seven Mar 23, 2023
Short Kings DeBrincat and Brännström Lead Sens to 7-2 Victory Over Lightning
Photo by André Ringuette/NHLI via DeBrincat scored two and Brännström scored one in a massive win for short people everywhere It doesn’t get more “Ottawa Senators Hockey” than showing up big against one of the top teams in the NHL soon after pretty much ending their playoff chances with a string of horrific losses to bad teams. Gotta love this team! For real though, that was a lot of fun, and it was nice to see the team show up big for the Nick Paul Return Game. First Period The Sens started out the game slowly but picked up the pace in no time. The moment...
Silver Seven Mar 23, 2023
Game 72 Hub: Senators vs Lightning
Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Seems every team in the division has beaten Tampa recently...can Ottawa follow suit? After a back-to-back in which, oddly enough, the Ottawa Senators put together a more inspired effort towards the game they lost (against the better of two teams), they return home to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning, losers of two straight. The Lightning (Kucherov, Point, Stamkos) have a similar forward corps to the Sens (Stützle, Tkachuk, Giroux) in that three players carry the bulk of the offence, with two additional second-line options (Batherson,...
Silver Seven Mar 23, 2023
Sens Sign Kleven
Photo by Andy Devlin/ The Ottawa Senators have signed left shot defender Tyler Kleven to a three year, entry level contract. The Ottawa Senators announced this morning that they’ve signed Tyler Kleven to his entry level deal. News Release: The #Sens have agreed to terms with defenceman Tyler Kleven on a three-year, entry-level contract: https://t.co/DsaVJtkFmh pic.twitter.com/4h4dtmVq2I— Sens Communications (@Media_Sens) March 23, 2023 The 21 year old towering rearguard is coming off his third season with the University of North Dakota which saw him establish...
Silver Seven Mar 23, 2023
Links, News and Notes: Fanatics Partnership, Ovechkin Reaches Milestone, McDavid Blasts NHL and More
Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Thursday’s Edition of the Links, News and Notes The Ottawa Senators are back in action tonight, but before we get to coverage of their match-up with the Tampa Bay Lightning, here are some of the stories making headlines around the hockey world: Fanatics has entered into a 10-year agreement with the NHL to be the league’s official on-ice uniform outfitter starting in 2024. The Fanatics logo will now appear on the jerseys and the NHL will be the first league to represent the Fanatics logo. Some fans were unhappy with this decision as...
Silver Seven Mar 22, 2023
Building the Belleville Behemoth
Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/ What would the ultimate Belleville Senators lineup look like? In the made-up little fantasy world in my head, NHL fans who have to endure lengthy rebuilds get to find some consolation in having a competitive AHL team to keep tabs on in the meantime. In the case of your Ottawa Senators, whose AHL affiliate relocated to nearby Belleville to coincide perfectly with said arduous rebuild, we have seen no playoff runs to speak of at either the NHL or AHL levels. In all fairness, we have witnessed a couple of pretty solid regular seasons in...
Silver Seven Mar 21, 2023
Ullmark stymies Sens 2-1
Photo by Brian Fluharty/ Mads Søgaard made 33 saves of his own in the loss For the second time in two nights, the Senators found themselves in a goaltending duel that ended 2-1. This time, however, they ended up on the wrong side of that score. Linus Ullmark made 39 saves to stonewall the Sens, showing against why the Bruins’ netminder has been quite possibly the best goalie on the planet this year. Søgaard for his part looked solid, making 33 saves in a losing effort. Dylan Gambrell broke a 50-game goal drought to open the scoring in the first period. It came...
Silver Seven Mar 21, 2023
Game 71 Preview + Open Thread: Ottawa Senators @ Boston Bruins
Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via What are you made of? Last night, the Ottawa Senators won a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins that they didn’t particularly deserve. Badly outshot and out-chanced, the Sens were rescued by Dylan Ferguson, a goalie making his first NHL start and only his second appearance in the NHL. If you believe in miracles, it’s the type of story that can serve as a precursor to the Sens’ magical run to the play-offs. But if winning their last match-up the Sens conquered one impossible hurdle, then they are on to a seemingly even...
Silver Seven Mar 20, 2023
Dylan Ferguson Steals the Show in 2-1 Win over the Penguins
Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Dylan Ferguson’s first career start was magical as he stopped 47 shots to defeat the Penguins If you turned on the TV tonight and said “wait, who??”, I don’t blame you. The goaltender Dylan Ferguson was a 7th-round pick in 2017 by the Vegas Golden Knights, and he was acquired from the Toronto Marlies on February 24th for future considerations. He was a necessary goalie to acquire for the Belleville Senators while Mads Søgaard and Kevin Mandolese were up in the NHL. And after just six games in Belleville, Ferguson was...
Silver Seven Mar 20, 2023
Game 70 Hub: Sens @ Pens
Photo by Justin Berl/ Which losing streak will end tonight? The Ottawa Senators were looking for a win against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday and did everything but. Normally when you allow under 30 shots on goal and hold the “Big 4” to a single goal while netting four of your own, that’s enough for a win. Instead, they settled for a shootout loss. All things considered, a very encouraging performance in a month in which there haven’t been many. But there’s still a sense of disappointment. It goes back to those games against Vancouver and Chicago. The...
Silver Seven Mar 19, 2023
Can the End of the Ottawa Senators’ Season Be a Success?
Photo by Chris Tanouye/Freestyle Photography/ We might be down to moral victories In case you haven’t been paying close attention to the standings, the Ottawa Senators now need a miracle to qualify for the post-season. The Sens are seven points out with just thirteen game remaining, and there are three teams between them and the second wild card spot. They would, at a minimum, need to go 11-2 — and even then, it would likely require some help to sneak in. If they were longshots at the start of the month, losing their last five games was the nail in the proverbial...
Silver Seven Mar 18, 2023
Despite Dominating, Senators Fall to Leafs 5-4 in a Shootout
Photo by André Ringuette/NHLI via Ottawa outshot Toronto 52-29 but couldn’t get the win It’s been quite a week for the Ottawa Senators. They came into tonight losing four straight games to the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and Colorado Avalanche, effectively ending their playoff hopes. That doesn’t make the rest of the season meaningless though, especially considering tonight’s matchup was against the Toronto Maple Leafs, which is always a fun game. Ottawa was pressing hard right away, making it hard for our old friend Matt Murray....
Silver Seven Mar 18, 2023
Game 69 Hub: Ottawa versus Toronto
Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Nice. You know what the Senators should probably try to do in order to keep their fading playoff hopes alive? Win a game. Ottawa has lost four in a row, as you already know, and five of their last ten. They’ve gotten a lot of help from the out-of-town scoreboard of late but sooner or later you need some points of your own when, ya know, you find yourselves behind in the standings and everything. Anyway, the Sens play at home on a Saturday night on national TV against their most despised rival so if you want to make a statement now seems...
Silver Seven Mar 16, 2023
Sens Show Life, But Fall Short in Frustrating 5-4 Loss to Avalanche
Photo by Chris Tanouye/Freestyle Photography/ I will not blame the refs I will not blame the refs I will not blame the refs Here’s the thing with the Ottawa Senators: right when you decide you finally know who they are, they love to go and flip the script on you. Admit it - you went into this game fully expecting a blowout loss, but with a tiny voice in your head reminding you that they’re going to start winning again eventually, and maybe this is the game that does it. Because they will. At some point before the end of the season, they’re going to go on another...
Silver Seven Mar 16, 2023
Game 68 Hub: Senators vs Avalanche
Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via The Sens are back in Ottawa, which is where they play their best hockey. Part of the struggle with watching a hockey team go from having no expectations to having playoff aspirations is dealing with the highs and lows synonymous with the sport. The Ottawa Senators followed up a five-game winning streak by losing four of their next five — in other words, they’re 6-4-0 in their last 10 games. The reason I’ve chosen to look at things this way is to not overreact to a more minor stretch of games, and keep an objective view of how the...
