globesports.com - 11/25/2008
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OTTAWA What's happened to the Ottawa Senators? Canada's best NHL team a year ago is now the worst, with bleak prospects. After 20 games last year, the Senators were 16-4, the best team in the Eastern Conference. After 20 games this year, the Senators are 7-9-4, down with the bottom feeders in ...
canada.com - 11/20/2008
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canada.com —
If you think the Canadiens are in a
funk, thank your lucky stars you're not an Ottawa
Senators fan. The Senators awoke yesterday to discover they have the worst record in the Eastern Conference and the second-worst in the National Hockey League. It's ...
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You think Habs have problems?
ottawasun.com - 11/22/2008
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ottawasun.com —
Senators owner Eugene Melnyk went to Hollywood to
land the biggest star on the NHL free-agent market.
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Melnyk: Welcome Mats
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Senators Have A Few Options
Kuklas Korner —
... Cup. That window for this group is shut, and every honest fan knows it. The start-again strategy would require a new general manager. One intriguing choice would be Steve Yzerman, who played some hockey before turning professional in Ottawa and is popular in the city. A longer shot would be Pierre McGuire, once an assistant coach at Ottawa and now a TSN analyst. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things hockey, knows the team inside out and understands the Ottawa market. more Filed in: ...
Yzerman won't become Ottawa's next GM
Snapshots —
... spotted this strange theory as to the Ottawa Senators options to re-float their sinking ship by the Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson: November 25, Globe and Mail : The team's options, broadly defined, are clear. The first -- the one likely to be chosen -- is to patch and paste through trades in a desperate attempt to stumble into the playoffs again in order to sell seats in the Canadian market with the smallest season-ticket base. The second is to blow up the team, as the Maple Leafs are doing, in the knowledge that this Senators team, even an improved version of it, will ...
Preview: Battle of Ontario Round 2
Pension Plan Puppets —
... You could look long and hard but you will not find a more frank or critical piece written on the Ottawa Senators and their recent history than the sledgehammer that Jeffrey Simpson brought down today in the Globe and Mail. ...
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