The NHL’s Free Agent season opens at noon today (Wednesday) and the Ottawa Senators are expected to be active, not just for the NHL club but for their American Hockey League team in Belleville as well.
B-Sens Coach Troy Mann expects his team will once again be one of the youngest in the AHL this season but expects 5 or 6 veterans to be added through free agency.
Meanwhile Ottawa’s new Senior Vice President of Player Development, Pierre McGuire was introduced at a press conference at the CAA Arena yesterday (Tues). In an interview with Quinte News Sports Director Jack Miller, the longtime TSN and NBC hockey broadcaster says players in Belleville will be seeing a lot of him this season.
The Belleville Senators play their first home game of the AHL season at CAA Arena against the Laval Rocket on October 16.
