I really like the city of Ottawa. I lived there for 17 years, all over the place, and I became a real Ottawan. There was that apartment on Carling near Britannia and the one downtown on Gloucester St. There was the high rise on Alta Vista, the place on Morrisette, that other place on Meadowlands, [...]

And there goes Canada’s last hope. The Sens lose 2-1 to New York in game 7. Milan Michalek should be made to change numbers. He missed three or four great chances from about 15 feet out during the Sens’ torrid charge with about six minutes remaining, and he reminded no one of the Rocket, Gordie Howe, [...]

The Ottawa Senators are at the Bell Centre Saturday night, and it’s a game Montreal must win to continue their gradual climb up the ladder of success. And there’s no reason why they shouldn’t win. Look at the sad sack bunch they’ll be playing. This is a recent photo of the Senators at Scotiabank Place, [...]

My friend JW in Ottawa was for years a good, solid Habs fan and then, without warning, shockingly became a Senators fan when the city got a team. Now he feels his team stinks, big guns Alfredsson, Spezza and Michalek are all injured, the goaltending situation sucks, and all in all, it’s not good right now in the [...]

Dany Heatley has been shipped to San Jose in exchange for forwards Jonathan Cheechoo and Milan Michalek. I can now breathe easier knowing that this guy will not be a Hab.

  When Wayne Gretzky retired, the entire league, every team, agreed the proper thing to do was to retire jersey no. 99 permanently so no other player would ever wear it.   This is absolutely reasonable. Gretzky deserves this honour. He was Gretzky, for goodness sakes.   But there’s another number out there that deserves [...]