Dust off your jerseys,\u00a0the long wait is over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s felt like an eternity since the Ottawa Senators last took the ice three weeks ago when they defeated the Flyers in overtime on the road. It\u2019s felt like even longer since they\u2019ve appeared on home ice \u2014 a 4-1 win over New Jersey on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n
Thursday, that all changes, as the Senators welcome the Detroit Red Wings to Canadian Tire Centre for the second time this season. The Senators won five out of six games in total heading into the Olympic break.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, first of all, not worried about what we\u2019ve done in the past,\u201d said head coach Travis Green when he was reminded of how his team finished before the break. \u201cWe were playing some pretty good, hockey, we\u2019ll have to play some more good hockey, starting tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brady Tkachuk and Jake Sanderson were back at morning skate for the Sens on Thursday after winning gold with Team USA. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s been an emotional three, four days for them, a lot going on, won a very prestigious medal,\u201d said Green.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I know how much they care about our team, how much they love playing here, and they\u2019ll be ready to go tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dust off your jerseys,\u00a0the long wait is over.\u00a0 It\u2019s felt like an eternity since the Ottawa Senators last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-501672","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\/501672","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=501672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}