Tagged: Ottawa Senators

16Sep

Mark Borowiecki(5) Ottawa / Binghamton Senators

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Ottawa Senators‘ 2008 5th round draft pick (#139 overall), defenseman Mark Borowiecki(5) will be a rookie at the start of this season but has already experienced much playing pro.

He appeared in 9 games at the end of last season and 21 games of Calder Cup action, helping Binghamton Senators win the AHL championship trophy.

Word has it that this somewhat deep pick is impressing folks in camp and what was almost a certain start for a full year with the B-Sens, may grab him some playing time in the show. He barely shows up on the Ottawa team website at this point.

We’ll see but he didn’t look out of place in the 8 games I watched him play in the post-season.

13Sep

Kaspars Daugavins(26) Ottawa / Binghamton Senators

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Ottawa Senators‘ 2006 3rd round draft pick (#91 overall) Latvian Kaspars Daugavins(26) will spend his 4th season in the team’s prospect system in 2011/2012.

He’s only skated 1 game in the NHL a couple of seasons ago but he’s still pretty young at 23 years old.

Last season, his third with Binghamton, he had career highs in games and points (73: 19 goals, 35 assists) but the crowning moment was the almost fantasy-like Calder Cup Playoff run by the B-Sens to win it.

Daugavins added 10 goals and 10 assists in 23 games to his point totals and he was one player that came to play each shift out there.

10/24: With 4 goals and 2 assists in 7 games this season, Daugavins gets the early season call to help the struggling Ottawa Senators put some offense up on the board, while veteran Daniel Alfredsson rests his hip.

28Aug

Bobby Butler (12)

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Marlborough, MA born, UNH hockey spawned, Bobby Butler(12) just earned himself a 2-year one-way contract with Ottawa Senators.

The Sens have now done this with a few of their younger guys that helped Binghamton win the Calder Cup.

The money of the deal is said to be $2.15 million but more importantly it’s the beginning of establishing himself as an NHL caliber forward.

He doesn’t have much size; listed at 6’0″ 185lb and that’s stretching it.

He does however have an absolute howitzer of a wrist shot.

13Aug

Andre Benoit(61) Spartak Moscow / Binghamton Senators

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Binghamton Senators‘ Andre Benoit(61) is one of the best defensive agitators I saw play in the AHL postseason and helped his team to the ultimate prize, the Calder Cup, while having clearly his best season of offensive numbers.

He even played in his first NHL games in his 6 year pro career last season;  8 with Ottawa. He registered 1 point, an assist.

He’s traveling overseas again next season joining Spartak Moscow of the KHL. He spent ’07/’08 in Finland and ’08/’09 in Sweden and the last two seasons in the AHL with Hamilton (2005-2007, 2009-2010) and Binghamton.

The knock on him must be that he’s two small to be a top six guy. I’ll miss seeing him in the AHL Eastern Conference but think he’ll be back to North America quite possilby on a one-way NHL deal.