The Ottawa Senators have reached the midpoint of their season, still alive in hopes of ending their lengthy playoff drought. We’ve put together a midseason assessment of everyone’s performance, including the head coach and general manager.

BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators aim to break a four-game skid with a victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh is 18-17-8 overall and 12-7-3 at home. The Penguins have a -23 scoring differential, with 132 total goals scored and 155 allowed.

Ottawa Senators defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker left Monday's practice after falling hard into the boards. TSN's Claire Hanna reports that Bernard-Docker was unable to put any weight on his left leg, with the 24-year-old helped off the ice by his teammates.

The Ottawa Senators got a point but were unable to get the win as they fell to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 3-2 in overtime.

Predators assistant general manager Jeff Kealty, in his 24th year with the organization, was named general manager of the 2025 United States National Team on Friday.

The latest episode of The Hockey Show has dropped. This week, hosts Roy Bellamy and David Dwork were joined by Adnan Virk of NHL on Prime and the NHL Network for his monthly visit. The trio discussed the tightening playoff race in the Eastern Conference,

After a scoreless 60 minutes, of course it was Alex Ovechkin to lift the Capitals in the three-on-three extra period.

Ovechkin’s goal also produced Washington’s 30th victory of the season – the Caps join Winnipeg as the second team in the League to reach that plateau in 2024-25 – and it helped Logan Thompson nail down his 20th victory of the season, and his second consecutive shutout.

The Ottawa Senators return home with a tall order as they take on the best team in the East and League — the Washington Capitals. Washington leads the league with a 0.716 save percentage at 63 points in 44 games.

Pierre-Luc Dubois and Brady Tkachuk are two of the best players to watch when the Washington Capitals play the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday, January 16 at 7:00 PM ET. Buy tickets for this matchup at StubHub!

The New York Islanders hosted the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night to wrap up their season series. The game was uneventful as both defenses stepped up and aside from an Adam Gaudette goal in the second period and an empty-net goal,

Leevi Merilainen made 24 saves for his second career shutout and Adam Gaudette's second period goal was the only one to beat Marcus Hogberg as the Ottawa Senators snapped the Isles' three-game winning streak with a 2-0 victory before a crowd of 15,101 at UBS Arena.