Sunday might be the most unique of the nine practice days for the Senators who aren\u2019t in Milan competing in the Olympics.<\/p>\n
At 8:15 a.m., the Senators will watch their teammates Brady Tkachuk and Jake Sanderson play for gold against Team Canada, which stands as the long-anticipated rematch of the international hockey rivals and the final event of the entire Olympics.<\/p>\n
And, after opening Saturday\u2019s practice to season seat members, the Senators will again skate in front of fans Sunday \u2014 this time split into two teams for the annual Sens Skills competition presented by CAA North & East Ontario which begins at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s going to be an awesome day,\u201d said Drake Batherson, who will captain one of the skills competition squads.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, obviously, you wake up right away and the gold medal game\u2019s on, that\u2019ll be exciting, and then the skills right after that which is always fun to try to put on a show for the fans and interact with them a little bit, that\u2019s always a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year with the 4 Nations, you kind of figured that [Canada vs. USA] was meant to be,\u201d said Shane Pinto, who has played for Team USA at the last two IIHF World Championships.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd as the tournament went these last few weeks, it just kind of felt like that was going to be the matchup. Yeah, we\u2019re all fired up, it\u2019s going to be such a fun game to watch and obviously rooting for \u2018Sandy\u2019 and Brady there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Batherson hinted at the team getting together to watch the game on Sunday morning. \u201cIt feels similar to before the 4 Nations game last year, the final, and we\u2019re fired up to watch it,\u201d said Batherson, who trains during the summer with fellow Maritimers and Canadian Olympians Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, and Brad Marchand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can only imagine what they\u2019re feeling over there right now, I\u2019m excited to even watch,\u201d he said. \u201cSo to play in that, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s going to be unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday might be the most unique of the nine practice days for the Senators who aren\u2019t in Milan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-491094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}