Richardson has more than 1,400 games of playing experience at the NHL level and aside from some work with his daughter Morgan’s team, the job in Bingo will be his first time serving as a head coach. He has spent the last few seasons working as an assistant here in Ottawa.
If Richardson’s coaching style is anything like the way he played the game, the organization’s prospects are in good hands. Richardson was always a hardworking, honest player during his 20 season playing career with the Leafs, Oilers, Flyers, Blue Jackets, Lightning and Senators.
Listening to Richardson's address to the Binghamton media today, it sounds like the plan is to implement a similar approach to the one Paul MacLean has used with the big club.
Not only has Richardson proven to be a great role model on the ice, his strength and bravery off the ice are a true inspiration. Luke and his wife Stephanie, along with support from the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health, the Sens Foundation and the Ottawa Senators have created the Do It For Daron (D.I.F.D) initiative which is raising awareness and inspiring conversations about youth mental health.
Shortly after the news broke about Kurt Kleinendorst, Richardson let Bryan Murray know he had an interest in pursuing a head coaching position with the organization. It didn’t take long for the Sens to make a decision, signing Richardson to a two year contract.
Steve Stirling, who served as an assistant in Bingo last year, has agreed to stay on with the organization and should be a valuable resource for Richardson as he learns the ropes in the American Hockey League.
- While the organization has not yet made any official announcement, word is they have signed forwards Darren Kramer and Jakub Culek to entry level contracts. Culek is a third round pick from the 2010 draft while Darren Kramer is a sixth round pick from 2011 and inventor of the Double Twist Off Jar.
- With today’s news out of Bingo, I have decided to delay the next SensChirp contest until tomorrow. Stay tuned for details.
Anything that makes the transition into the NHL easier for our prospects is a good thing.
Agreed. And add to that the likelihood that a fair number of the Bingo guys this coming season should be guys who want to be NHLers sooner than later and the team should be pretty competitive.
Good for Luke and his family. Hopefully he finds the job rewarding and has success there.
In the previous post, someone mentioned Folingo being comapared to other players his age, value, money etc. It got me thinking so I found a site, did the review and he's not fairing to bad stat wise for other players born in the same year, playing a very close amount of seasons. Again, this is only for players born in 1987 and I then check the points category.
http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/birthyears.cgi?year=1987
You'll notice Nick Foligno is sitting in 16th place with 148 total points, close to a few pretty good names. And look at the guys who lead his age. He's only a few points behind guys like Patric Hornqvist (3M), Derick Brassard (3M), Martin Hanzal (2.1M) and Sergei Kostitsyn (2.5M). So to say he's not worth 2 to 2.5 is crap, because that's what he'll get on the open market. If you ask me, Ottawa's been paying a damn good bargin rate for his services.
really glad that he will try to implement the Stache's system as much as he can. luke's career known for his shutdown D and always team first mentality. that will help claesson, borocop(assumin g he is still there) and very soon help the Dman we may draft this year.
as for kramer, he will quickly become a fan favourite. Ive read a few times now by spokane fansand non-fans that get to watch him. and the 1 theme they all seem to be saying is he is very clearly a natrual born leader, he always does anything and everything he can for the team. hes even proven he can score goals when needed. and no question about his fighting ability.
we finally have our next chris neil. i mean lets be honest, neil is turning 33 this june. I love the guy, hell i even wear his jeresy to some games. but the fighting type guys seem to retire a year or 2 earlier than others. so my guess would be neil is putting in 3 more years before hangin them up. which is perfect time to have him arround when kramer eventaully gets a shot with the big club and neil can show him the way so to speak.
So is Alfie going to take his old job?
A great character man to lead and teach the young players..
Great to hear the signings as well. I saw Culek (on TV) in the QMJHL playoffs. He seems to have improved.. and gotten heavier... Will be interesting to see how he does in Binghamton next season.
They will still be an inexperienced club with lots of talent.
Someone mentioned last week.. that the Sens have signed Andre Benoit... but nothing has been announced. Was that just a rumour?
No.
BTW http://sportsottawa.com/content/richardson-roesler-top-world-canada
Morgan is attending Cornell next year, which doesn't offer scholerships since its an Ivy league school.
Leave it to Garrioch to get his facts wrong AGAIN
In Garrioch's defense he was eating a KFC double down and drinking a 64oz Welsh's Grape while doing the interview with Luke - so with all that slobbering, slurping and chewing he probably just didn't hear correctly. Plus his notes were covered in grease.
To EDM Gryba or Wiercoch
To Ottawa Linus Omark
i am a really big fan of this kid and i dont think edmonton really needs him anymore, i think he would be a great addition with zibby and silf going forward.
i would like our ranks for years to come
Zibby
Omark
Karlsson
Silfverberg
Cowen
Turris
Stone
Boroweicki
Filatov(i still believe)
if only we still had rundblad...
I guess that also includes Filatov?
Apparently yes (Chirp asked the same question on Twitter):
Joy Lindsay @PSBJoyOnTheSe ns
@SensChirp As far as restricting, yes. Bona fide offer, not sure.
@pomattic The Senators can still restrict his North American rights, as they did with Roman Wick last year.
@SENSensational He will be qualified, but no use putting work into a contract if he has already committed to playing in the KHL.
Joy Lindsay @PSBJoyOnTheSe ns
i rather keep weirdo, he is 21 and a long term project. omark is completly 1 dimensional. and we already have no room for forwards so he wouldnt not be in the top 6. and would be very useless in the bottom 6 since he doesnt bring any physical game with him.
and we dont want or need rundblad. because we wouldnt have turris.
and im making a prediction that rundblad goes back to sweden in a season because yotes top pair will be for a very long time OEL and yandle. then depending on who they resign this off season they have roszival, klesla, morris, stone, schlemko, summers. then they have high end prospects brandon gormley and connor murphy who will be starting their pro carrer this coming season.
my point is, rundblad is an offencive beast that could eventually run any PP arround the league but he will first have to fix his defencive game so he could even crack a spot on the roster.
i still really am a fan of his play and hope he does succeed in the NHL but i just really am having trouble seeing it happen any time soon.
Thanks for the correction! That part has been removed from the post. Should have done my own fact checking on that one. Distance from Bingo to Cornell is about an hour though so it's still close by.
You meant milkshake I think. The only fruit Garrioch has ever consumed has been on top of a cake, baked in a pie, or drowned in chocolate fondue. Get your facts straight Hax!
Sorry - I actually heard about it from Don Brennan so that probably explains why my facts weren't accurate. ;)
They loaded the team up a lot like Ottawa did with Bingo. Think they can beat Norfolk?
Ben Scrivens is tearing it up, if he keeps it up they can.
For Benoit, it hasn't been announced, but the deal is done. 2-way, 1 yr deal.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/podcast/marek_wyshynski/
Just like every other sport, its a copy cat league, Hax, we've done the same from Detroit for years now.
There was a relatively lengthy discussion regarding it in here last week (i think).
Anybody who ignores the fact that the leafs do have some decent prospects is doing so willfully. Sure we would like them to be incompetent at all levels of their organisation but the marlies have been good all year.
There are a lot of interesting parallels with the Bsens from last year. As I said last week though, I think the major difference is that the leafs wont have as many players from this calder cup run make as significant an immediate impact with the NHL team as we had this past season.
From that playoff run Condra, Daugavins, Smith, Greening and Cowen were pretty much in the senators team all year. Add to that Butler and O'Brien making significant contributions (maybe only in games played in BBs case. I don't see that being replicated with Toronto. Gardiner will be with TML all season and Kadri will probably make the jump to full time NHL (if Burke can stop ruining the guy's development) other than that I don't see anyone being with the leafs full time next season.
As mentioned before what will be interesting is to see the Toronto fans change their tune about the significance of a calder cup win. Hopefully the sens fans can stay classy enough to not flip flop themselves.
Fact is that that calder cup run has been cited by plenty of people as having a significant effect on the NHL team this year. It would be stupid of us to try and claim otherwise now just because Toronto might win it.
FORWARDS
Shane Prince / Stephane Da Costa / Mark Stone
Andre Petersson / Mike Hoffman / Mika Zibanejad
Rob Klinkhammer / Jean G.-Pageau/ Pat Cannone
David Dziurzynski / Derek Grant / Cole Schneider
Tim Conboy /
DEFENSEMEN
Fredrik Claesson / Andre Benoit
Patrick Wiercioch / Eric Gryba
Ben Blood / Chris Wideman
GOALTENDERS
Robin Lehner
Either of Mika or Stone could make Ottawa straight out, and one will be up by the middle of the year for sure. But even if you take one of those guys away, it is still a VERY talented team.
Then why wouldn't they qualify him?