Under the new slogan, Hockey Makes Us, Team President Cyril Leeder outlined the club's plans for the 2011/2012 season, the 20th in the history of the franchise. Obviously the All Star Game at the end of January is the main event but that is by no means all fans have to look forward to.
It will be a season that acknowledges the past, present and future of the Ottawa Senators while making the link to the rich hockey heritage that this city has
Despite some speculation to the contrary, the team did not reveal the much talked about Heritage jersey. Leeder mentioned that the plan is to release that at some point in October. Although I've talked to a few people since the leak came out the other day and most seem to believe that it will be very close to the image shown on Icethetics.
A few other points of interest from today's event...
- The Heritage jersey will debut in game action on October 13th against the Colorado Avalanche. The jersey will be worn 11 times during the season.
- There will be a number of unique theme nights to recognize great moment from the Sens modern era include a Roger Neilson tribute night when the Canucks are in town and a salute to the Sens first playoff team.
- Members of the modern era Sens will be on hand when the Sens play their home opener against the Wild. Should be an interesting night with Heatley also in town as a member of the Wild. Fans that attend the home opener will receive a commemorative 20th anniversary Senators pin.
- No mention of the new scoreboard. I have been told there is still some work to do on that front but that they plan to have something in place in time for the All Star Game.
- The team's pre-season games, opening night (Oct. 11), and three and five-game packages will go on sale to the public on Friday, Aug. 12, while all remaining regular-season single-game tickets will be available for purchase on Friday, Sept. 9.
- The full promotional schedule is available here.
On a more personal note, I am extremely encouraged by the Sens decision to reach out to the blogosphere for this event. There are a number of hard working individuals behind the many Sens blogs across the internet and it's great to see the club making an effort to connect with those individuals and their readers.
Can't wait to get the 20th Season underway!
A quick update on the SensChirp Search. I have received the second entry and will be posting it either later on tonight or early tomorrow morning.
I was already counting the sleeps till the season starts back up and this just made it worse LOL
GO SENS GO
lol, Garrioch.
Did the Organization make major changes in the Marketing/Commu nity Relations department? All of a sudden you look at the list: Vintage Jersey, reaching out to the blogging community, 20th Season Video & events.. and they're doing really well! Keep up the good work!
Hahah was hoping I'd get to talk to Bruce.
I must say though, the videos posted are not very predominant on the home page, I never even notice them unless someone mentions them. I wonder what the best way is to change that, maybe just add a link to any new videos in your "daily" blog post? I realize now that you built the feature/video tab area that would be hard to change.
Yea that might not be a bad idea. I'll see what we can do to elevate the profile of the video.
Don't say that - nobody in their right mind would want to talk to that fleshbag.
That fleshbag has more access and contacts than you could ever imagine.
Yes I hate him, but he's a good contact to have. All personal opinions aside, the guy is in a position we'd all love to be in.
Sept 10-13 in Oshawa.
Milan Michalek
Jared Cowen
Chris Neil
..For....
Ales Hemsky
Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson
Cam Barker
FORWARDS
Nikita Filatov ($2.195m) / Jason Spezza ($7.000m) / Ales Hemsky ($4.100m)
Magnus Paajarvi-Svenss on ($1.525m) / Mika Zibanejad ($1.775m) / Daniel Alfredsson ($4.875m)
Nick Foligno ($1.200m) / Peter Regin ($1.000m) / Bobby Butler ($1.050m)
Colin Greening ($0.816m) / Zack Smith ($0.700m) / Erik Condra ($0.625m)
DEFENSEMEN
Sergei Gonchar ($5.500m) / David Rundblad ($1.500m)
Chris Phillips ($3.083m) / Erik Karlsson ($1.300m)
Cam Barker ($2.250m) / Patrick Wiercioch ($0.875m)
GOALTENDERS
Craig Anderson ($3.187m) / Alex Auld ($1.000m)
BUYOUTS: Jonathan Cheechoo ($1.166m) / Daniel Alfredsson ($0.700m) / Ray Emery ($0.562m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $47,987,500; BONUSES: $3,850,000
CAP SPACE (20-man roster): $16,312,500
Also really enjoyed the Prince video, interesting that he said he is looking to make the team.
I thought it was a given he has to develop more in Junior.
BM is going to have some decisions to make if Regin, Winchester or others get smoked at camp.
How the hell did Wiercioch make the team?? hahahaha
SensTown, SensUnderground and SilverSeven were some of the others that were in attendance yesterday.
Chirp, perhaps list new videos as you come across them as new posts to the site, rather than putting them only under the video section?
One can find the new video as it is posted as a new post, but could also be found with ease under the video section. That way we can all comment on it too as it appears as a new post.
Have a great weekend!
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