TNT Sports to call three more NHL playoff games with remote broadcasters
Predictably, the decision was primarily made for financial reasons.
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ESPN blasted for Leafs-Senators audio mix
"Audio engineers need to figure it out!"
NHL world mourns former player, broadcaster Greg Millen’s death at 67
"Greg was a trusted and familiar voice in the homes of millions of Canadians for more than 30 years."
Shawn Simpson’s impact remembered across hockey community after his passing
A fundraiser for mental health efforts in Ottawa in memory of Simpson has already raised more than CA$10,000.
Kenzie Lalonde on the ‘immense responsibility’ and ‘incredible opportunity’ of calling NHL games
TSN’s Kenzie Lalonde becomes first female TV play-by-play voice for NHL team in Canada
"It’s a dream come true and it’s an incredible responsibility."
Ottawa Senators radio announcers bizarrely compare Boomer Esiason to old spaghetti-filled Tupperware
"Boomer Esiason looks like Tupperware that’s been used too many times. You put four or five bowls of spaghetti in the microwave, all of a sudden that Tupperware looks like roadkill."
Pierre McGuire joins Ottawa Senators front office
McGuire had been in broadcasting since 1997, but has plenty of prior front office experience.
Ottawa Sun issues a major correction and apology over errors in columns on Sens Foundation and Eugene Melnyk’s The Organ Project
"We sincerely apologize and regret any misunderstanding caused by the errors contained in the two columns."
Ottawa Senators’ radio analyst Gord Wilson on his COVID-19 battle: “It’s a flu like nothing I’ve ever had.”
“We’ve all had the flu and we’ve all had bad colds. This is completely different … completely different. It grips you.”
Montreal Canadiens’ Jonathan Drouin on Ottawa Senators: “We hate those guys like they hate each other, er, like they hate us.”
This was quite the slip-up from Drouin.
Ottawa Citizen review finds at least 20 “contrived Twitter accounts” that attacked the paper following Senators’ Uber video story
Ottawa Senators ban Postmedia reporter from team charter in apparent retaliation for republishing Uber video
This is yet another PR misstep from the Senators.
Asked for “one thing you’re optimistic about,” Ottawa Senators’ GM Pierre Dorion pauses for four seconds, says “We’re a team”
Dorion didn't exactly inspire much confidence here.
Sportsnet unveils #NotFairGame anti-cyberbullying initiative, two days after Damien Cox’s controversial comments
"You can only be cyberbullied, to some extent, if you allow yourself to be. If you go on social media, if you participate in social media, if it's important to you, you are vulnerable to that."
Would an Ottawa-Nashville Stanley Cup Final be NBC’s worst nightmare?
Predators-Senators might not be as bad for ratings as you first think...