Cornwall Ontario – It was great to see five Canadian teams make the playoffs this season after Canada was blanked last year. Sadly all five lost their opening games; some tragically, some, well hockey is a game of funny bounces and for the Leafs Friday night the puck didn’t bounceContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Whether for a NHL roster or a hockey pool; a good GM is always looking for a way to evaluate talent. There’s always a different nuance or perspective. Fans too argue over the value of players. Today there’s analytics, which is still in its infancy andContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The Ottawa Sens have been a budget team for years. They struggle to put butts in the seats out in Kanata and do a really poor job of marketing. CFN has reached out to them several times to no avail, but the squad underContinue Reading
Two 2nd round picks for Andrew Shaw? Really? Habs GM opened up the draft with a splash sending Lars Eller to the Caps for two future 2nd pics from the Caps. Eller, one of the larger bodies on the Habs that has play off cred took a lotContinue Reading
Classy move by the Ottawa Senators in rewarding one of my faves, Chris Neil, with a contract extension for next season. The long time tough guy is a great dressing room presence and has a pretty darn good year in limited minutes. Today is trade deadline day in the NHLContinue Reading
Going into this season Habs GM Marc Bergevin made very few impact changes. Washington for example, clearly saw a need for some secondary scoring support and nabbed TJ Oshie, and Justin Williams. Montreal saw some lottery tickets. Alex Semin, Zach Kassian, and Tomas Fleischman. While “Flash”Continue Reading
They say to judge a sports trade you have to look at the best player involved. In this case, it was Christmas for Ottawa GM as he landed Leafs D man Dion Phaneuf in a block buster trade with the Leafs. While the Leafs are doing their fandangled rebuild fromContinue Reading
Ah the dawn of another season of NHL hockey. A day when every franchise has hope. By Spring we’ll see which team gets to sip from Lord Stanley’s Cup, but for today the playing field is even. Hockey is Canada’s game and I generally tend to cover ourContinue Reading
This seems to be the season the NHL cap really kicks in. In a normal world trading Phil Kessel for a bag of pucks wouldn’t make any sense. In the cap age….well. Brendan Shanahan and his team wanted to make a point and they traded away the team’s bestContinue Reading
CFN – It was an ugly series for Montreal, but the team moved on to the second round; waiting to see if they face Tampa Bay or Detroit. Either of those teams will offer a very different challenge than Ottawa did, but the key issue for the Habs is theContinue Reading
CFN – The Habs have gone from being up 3 games to 0 to now seeing a potential upset in the making. Montreal will have two more chances to finish off the Ottawa Senators, but that word “Character” keeps leaking forward. Carey Price had a Hall of Fame regular season,Continue Reading
CFN – When Habs GM talks about wanting character in his players he wasn’t kidding as the team showed huge character in defeating the Ottawa Senators in game one of their series. Missing was team leader and top scorer Max Pacioretty and Norris candidate PK Subban earned a game misconductContinue Reading
CFN – It’s time. Eight series kick off Wednesday night which will leave eight teams for round two. Which teams make it will make for some interesting story lines. This year 5 Canadian teams made the final 16, but sadly four of them are playing against each other. ItContinue Reading
CFN – Sens vs Habs for round one of the play offs. This season it’s great to see so many Canadian teams making the second season, but tragically there are two series that will knock out two of our teams. Montreal, while finishing first is vulnerable. The team nabbed DevanteContinue Reading
CFN – The Hamburglar notched another win as Ottawa is becoming one of the few good feeling stories of this 2014/15 NHL Season or as many are staring to call it; “The Year of the Tank”. The Sens are now 1 point behind Boston for the last Wild Card spotContinue Reading
CFN – We don’t want him. You take him. The LA Kings have done something that only could happen in the day of the CAP age. They have put Stanley Cup champ Mike Richards on waivers. Richards, has 5 years left on a contract at about $5.25M perContinue Reading
CFN – Ottawa Senator D man Jared Cowen recorded a very rare Gordie Howe hat trick Thursday night in the team’s 5-3 to Los Angeles. With coach Paul MacLean sacked the put on quite a performance, but the Stanley Cup Champs finished them off. Cowen took on Dwight King earlyContinue Reading
CFN – It’s time to give the Ottawa Sens their Quarter Season report. The team is currently 10-9-4 with 24 points and a -2 goal differential. Essentially they are a lower end bubble team which isn’t the best spot to be in. They are three points out of aContinue Reading