I’m in a good mood. A great mood. I feel like whistling. The sun is shining brightly, birds are singing, I had a good sleep, and my porridge tasted terrific. I hope you have a wonderful day too. You deserve it. I also hope the Ottawa Senators crash and burn and suck and get blown [...]

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, [...]

It’s not the first time I’ve posted this. And it might not be the last. Ottawa’s Prescott Hotel, in the mid 1980′s, was one of those classic old beverage room with a Ladies and Escort door, and a regular entrance. It smelled of stale beer and cigarettes, and the trays of beer were served by [...]

They’ll be coming from nearby Kanata and far away Orleans, from Britannia and Elmvale Acres and Barrhaven and from the other side of the Ottawa River. They’ll drive in from up the line and from down the 417. They’ll be coming to see their Ottawa Senators get smoked by the angry Montreal Canadiens.

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, [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about an old friend, JW, who was a good, solid Habs fan for years but began cheering for the Senators instead when Ottawa finally got a team in the early 1990′s. Sorry JW, Can’t Do It I’ve never understood it, never will. And I know several just like [...]

I’ve decided to do something different tonight. I’ve decided not to bother with all the ins-and-outs of what happened in the big 4-1 win in Ottawa tonight. You know how it all played out. You saw the shots on goal margin, the great saves by Halak, the nice Plekanec-to-Cammalleri goal and the pinball shot by [...]

If the Habs can sock it to the Senators tonight in Ottawa, they will catapult themselves right into seventh place, tied with those same Ottawans. It was only the other day the Canadiens were in twelfth, so seventh is a nice, tidy little spot to be.

It’s ten pm in Ottawa and most citizens have already been in bed for several hours because they’ve worked hard at their government desks all week and are pooped. Except for hockey fans, who stayed up later than normal to watch or listen to the big game, the Senators-Canadiens game. And especially Habs fans in Ottawa, who [...]

Both Andrei Markov and Mathieu Schneider won’t play tonight against Ottawa but are expected to suit up tomorrow against New York. At least this is the information I stole from the Gazette. Not having these two defencemen in the lineup is never great but not the end of the world, as the Senators are an [...]