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Sens fans are hoping Alfie will be around for another Game 7. “Like, he’s doing too good to quit,” said Maxime Boivin, 15, from Aylmer. The New York Rangers eliminated the Senators 2-1 in the deciding game in Round 1 of the playoffs Thursday night. “I was very disappointed. I stopped watching it when I […]
MoreA group of hardcore Sens faithful are taking their hometown swagger to the Big Apple for Game 7 between the Senators and Rangers on Thursday. “We’re super pumped,” said Brett Starke, 26, a fan of Sens defenceman Matt Carkner. “We’ll be showing the (team) colours and making sure there’s Sens support out there.” Friends Alex […]
MoreAs Dr. Donald Chow lay on a hospital bed clinging to life, he was paged for his own surgery. His face, covered in blood, wasn’t recognizable to his colleagues at the Civic hospital’s trauma unit. “I guess when I got to the hospital, I must’ve looked like a Sens fan, with my face all painted […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/12/21/sens-make-christmas-merry-for-sick-kids Thirteen-year-old Hiba Allam has the ultimate Christmas gift for her brothers: autographs from the Ottawa Senators. The Sens made their annual visit to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Wednesday, meeting with patients and their families. “Everybody’s, like, speechless,” said Allam, a Bells Corners resident. Leukemia has kept her in hospital for […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/13/tears-of-a-tough-guy Okay, there’s no hiding it. There’s definitely a bro-mance between Mike Fisher and Chris Neil. In a good, buddy-buddy kinda way. As Fisher introduced Neil and wife Caitlin as the new honorary chairs of Roger’s House on Wednesday, the Senators’ tough guy began to choke up. “Knowing Mike, living with him, this […]
MoreIt’s been seven months since Morgan Richardson lost her sister and best friend. She recently celebrated her 17th birthday and is handling the pressures of being in high school and figuring out where to go to school next — on top of grieving after her sister Daron, 14, took her own life last November. “We […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/21/aboriginal-veterans-honoured-in-ceremony More than 100 people gathered to celebrate National Aboriginal Day in Ottawa Tuesday. Every year on June 21, aboriginal veterans are honoured in a wreath laying ceremony downtown. One veteran traveled all the way from northern Alberta last year, said John Jewitt from the National Aboriginal Veterans Association. “He wanted to see […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/02/17128856.html Less than three months after his daughter took her own life, Ottawa Senators assistant coach and former defenceman Luke Richardson is using personal tragedy to raise awareness about teenage mental illness. His daughter Daron, 14, hanged herself on Nov. 13. More than 5,000 people attended her memorial at Scotiabank Place and Richardson […]
MoreInside the artistic, inviting, and warmly decorated house of Allan and Robin O’Connor in Orleans, hundreds of friends trickled in Saturday to celebrate Simon Hubbard’s zeal for life. “Anytime people were getting together and Simon showed up, people had a little more fun,” said Steve Lafond, who’s known Hubbard for more than 30 years. Hubbard, […]
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