News Article: Bullying and backstabbing: the Ottawa Senators are pro sport's biggest mess

[Senscore]

The briefly installed promotional materials highlighting the heritage logo gave me hope that Anselmi was going to bring us to the jersey promised land. Then he left and things immediately went back to the tired centurion logo.


Roman Senators wore togas for f***s sake.

 

[saskriders]

FWIW regarding jerseys Icethetics expects a third for us this year and we are rumoured for a rebrand in either 20-21 or 21-22.

 

[branch]

FWIW regarding jerseys Icethetics expects a third for us this year and we are rumoured for a rebrand in either 20-21 or 21-22.

Nice 2021-2022. A solid 15 years since our last regular jerseys.

 

[BatherSeason]

Nice 2021-2022. A solid 15 years since our last regular jerseys.

Just in time for the FYOUS

 

[JungleBeat]

Even seems like the webmaster gets the summers off unpaid:

Front Office

May wanna remove the two people who left the org. I get it if it just happened a day or so ago, but these folks left awhile ago now.

Also looks like there Tim Pattyson is now the Director of Hockey Ops as of July, looks like our only analytics guy is now in charge of something else.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-pattyson-b5098481/

Interesting to see that he started out as a communications manager and now he’s the director of hockey operations.

 

[branch]

Interesting to see that he started out as a communications manager and now he’s the director of hockey operations.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Interesting to see that he started out as a communications manager and now he’s the director of hockey operations.

Being groomed for POHO

 

[The Lewler]

Interesting to see that he started out as a communications manager and now he’s the director of hockey operations.

Yeah.. interesting.. that's the right word. lol

A journalism/communications turned analytics guy turned director of hockey operations.

FYOUs indeed.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

https://www.tsn.ca/what-to-expect-from-smith-and-the-senators-in-2019-20-1.1352954

 

[The Lewler]

https://www.tsn.ca/what-to-expect-from-smith-and-the-senators-in-2019-20-1.1352954

I expect nothing from the Sens and DJ Smith.

They are gonna be bad, I just hope things are recoverable once the real issue is removed.

 

[Sensung]

Being groomed for POHO

Seems about right.

 

[Sensung]

I expect nothing from the Sens and DJ Smith.

They are gonna be bad, I just hope things are recoverable once the real issue is removed.

Yup.

The depth of prospect pool will help and if the new owners can get Lebreton going and invest in the hockey ops the fans will come flocking back.

 

[Billy Bridges]

yes after the labor day

?

New management.

 

[Agent Zub]

The only drama surrounding this team is from the dishonest clusterf*** that is Melnyk and Dorion, and people like Karlsson, Stone, Alfredsson etc not wanting to deal with petulant little children.

 

[Peptic Balcers]

FWIW regarding jerseys Icethetics expects a third for us this year and we are rumoured for a rebrand in either 20-21 or 21-22.

That was announced like a year ago, any updates since?

 

[saskriders]

That was announced like a year ago, any updates since?

No.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Yup.

The depth of prospect pool will help and if the new owners can get Lebreton going and invest in the hockey ops the fans will come flocking back.

Imagine a new owner coming in that actually has some financial flexibility, sees the benefit of investment, and actually tries to market the team?!?!

New owner, new arena, Alfie back in, new jerseys, Chabot extension, real actual staff after canning Dorion, reputable coach hire... they could kill it from day one and completely wipe out the darkest time in Senators history.

Melnyk's despicable legacy of modern day business tyranny could be wiped out in one fell swoop.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Imagine a new owner coming in that actually has some financial flexibility, sees the benefit of investment, and actually tries to market the team?!?!

New owner, new arena, Alfie back in, new jerseys, Chabot extension, real actual staff after canning Dorion, reputable coach hire... they could kill it from day one and completely wipe out the darkest time in Senators history.

Melnyk's despicable legacy of modern day business tyranny could be wiped out in one fell swoop.

Just seems to good to be true.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Just seems to good to be true.

It really is isn't it.

 

[Rand0m]

Marketing would be so easy... all they’d need to do is put a big sign on CTC: “Now under new ownership!” Instant sell outs!

 

[GrantLemons]

Just seems to good to be true.

It's really not though. It only seems that way because of how insanely poorly the team is being run atm.

Even running this team with a very average budget, and qualified exec's in place would make a complete world of difference.

Removing Eugene would be addition by subtraction. You could remove him, put a couple of reputable talking heads in his place, and I would bet attendance and fan relations would improve even if they didnt increase the budget.

 

[Crosside]

I just check cap friendly and i m surprised we are at 74865

 

[BondraTime]

I just check cap friendly and i m surprised we are at 74865

That's counting LTIR, and AAV. We are paying less because of actual salaries, other teams paying bonuses, and lower salary than caphits.

The Sens are spending closer to 40 million in real money

 

[Peptic Balcers]

I just check cap friendly and i m surprised we are at 74865

you gotta consider that 20% of that cap hit is paying for the ghosts of Marian Gaborik, Ryan Callahan and Clarke Macarthur

 

[coladin]

you gotta consider that 20% of that cap hit is paying for the ghosts of Marian Gaborik, Ryan Callahan and Clarke Macarthur

Perfect. Now I have some additional ideas for Halloween costumes!