Patrick Kane's overtime power-play goal gave the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night at Little Caesars Arena. That ended the Sens' nine-game road trip and extended the Red Wings' winning streak to five games.

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.

The Senators aren't just battling to hold on to the final Wild Card spot in the East, they may also be battling the flu bug.

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.

The Senators lost 4-0 to the St. Louis Blues on Friday, in a game where they once again failed to gain any kind of offensive traction. Despite Brady Tkachuk having claimed in the media that their effort in the Dallas game wasn’t good enough,

The Ottawa Senators will turn to their version of the Finnish Flash on Hockey Day in Canada . As the Senators prepare to kick off Hockey Night in Canada ‘s 25th annual version of the celebration of the game loved by millions of people in this country,

Trying to make the playoffs for the first time in eight years, Staois stated before the season that it was incumbent on the likes of captain Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle, Josh Norris, Thomas Chabot, Ridly Greig, Shane Pinto, Jake Sanderson and Drake Batherson to raise their games.

The Senators went into Friday night’s action sitting three points behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the final wildcard spot in the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference. It just so happened the Penguins had the same number of points as the Jackets (44), but Columbus held the tiebreaker advantage.

The Senators have struggled to score. Ahead of the season, the emphasis from Green was to prevent goals on a team that had battled to be effective in its own end. He’s succeeded, but Green’s team has laboured to score goals at the other end.

You can debate which of the Senators’ needs — a scoring forward, another defenceman, possibly some goaltending help — is more pressing but the recent skid, about two months before the trade deadline, has amplified the need for general manager Steve Staios to make a move.

- The Senators are three games above NHL.-500 with a record of 21-18-3. The Sens had a hot December with a record of 9-3-1 and a .731 winning percentage that ranked fourth in the NHL for the month. Ottawa went on a six-game winning streak from Dec. 11-21, immediately following a 4-2 loss to the Isles on Dec. 8.

The Ottawa Senators are flirting with a playoff spot, which is something that hasn’t been able to be typed out in the month of January in a very long time.