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OTTAWA, Ontario -- In theory, these are the moments when experience counts, when the combined years of ups and downs and playoff battles won and lost help forge a protective covering that allows misfortune to fall, well, like water off a duck's back....

Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson navigated waivers and the minors before finally finding himself in Canada's capital.

OTTAWA, Ontario -- For a moment before he headed off the ice, Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik leaned against the team's bench and stared up at the Scotiabank Place scoreboard. The Ottawa Senators were still mobbing overtime hero Colin ...

The Senators feel the first five minutes of Game 3 could seal their fate in the series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Scott Burnside writes

He's missed all but five games this season due to injury, but the Senators hope Jason Spezza can provide the spark they need to take on the Penguins.

The Ottawa Senators' top center, Jason Spezza, will return to the team's lineup in Game 3 of their second-round NHL playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday evening after missing most of the season with a back injury.

PITTSBURGH -- He still sports an ungainly face shield that makes him look more linebacker or sci-fi gladiator than hockey player. And a glimpse at his lower jaw area puts one in mind of a picket fence battered by a tornado. But make no mistake: Si...

PITTSBURGH -- Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma didn't have a vote for the coach of the year award, but if he had one, he'd have cast it for his counterpart with the Ottawa Senators, Paul MacLean. The Ottawa coach was named as a finalist for the Jack...

Count Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby among those who would like to see the NHL use video replay to confirm the accuracy of delay of game penalties.

Denis Potvin talks to Scott Burnside about the what the Senators need to do to even their series with the Penguins....

PITTSBURGH -- Penguins defensive coach Todd Reirden always has this message for the team's young defensive prospects who think they're ready for a taste of the National Hockey League: Go check out No. 44, and then you'll know if you're really ready. ...

Pittsburgh -- A scene from Game 1 of the Ottawa Senators-Pittsburgh Penguins series: Brooks Orpik, the immovable force of the Penguins' blue line, is being assailed by what at first blush appears to be a small boy who has made his way onto the ic...

PITTSBURGH -- If the Pittsburgh Penguins learned anything from their wobbly first-round victory over the New York Islanders, it's this: hair-on-fire hockey, bad; patient, lethal hockey, good. In a 4-1 Game 1 win over the Ottawa Senators that was m...

PITTSBURGH -- It's a bit hard to get your head around it, but the start of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is relatively foreign territory for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Ottawa Senators. That may explain the great collective exhalati...

Talk about a flair for the dramatic. The Boston Bruins, on the verge of blowing a 3-1 series lead against the plucky Toronto Maple Leafs, stormed back from a 4-1 deficit in Game 7 to tie the game in the waning moments of regulation and then win it 5-...

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN.com Monday that the league had dismissed Darin Pastor's bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes from the league because it didn't meet the league's requirements.