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The everyfan’s guide to the Sens in the playoffs.
Think you’ve been on the edge of your seat watching the Sens for the past three months? Imagine if you had a son or grandson on the team.
“As a parent, you watch and you just hope that your child has a good game and that he doesn’t get injured,” reports Cody Ceci’s mother, Karen.
“And as a Sens fan, I’m sitting there with a whole different set of nerves. The one where I want the team to win. I don’t care who scores. It doesn’t have to be my kid. I just want the puck to go in the net. I’m nervous for two different reasons.”
There are anxious moments, too, for Cody’s grandmother, Stella, who lives with Karen and Cody’s father, Parri, at their home in Orléans. At 90, she doesn’t often get to games at the Canadian Tire Centre, but she watches faithfully on television.
“I always say to my grandson — he calls me, he never misses, he calls me before every game, no matter where he is — I always say, ‘Son, all I want, play well, and don’t get hurt.’ That’s my main thing,” says Stella.
Cody Ceci, centre, with sister Chelsea, mother Karen, father Parri and brother Cole in a photo taken after Cody’s first NHL game.
Ceci and fellow Ottawa-born defenceman Mark Borowiecki are both making their playoff debuts under the eyes of friends and family.
Tom and Cindy Borowiecki usually watch from their Kanata home and sometimes look at each other, Tom confides, as if to say — pinch me, is that our son?
Yet at the same time, he believes, it’s an experience any parent can relate to — strange as some people might find that.
“That’s the one thing I’ve realized,” he said Thursday. “Whatever level your child is playing at, if they’re enjoying it, then you enjoy it.
“So we ARE enjoying it — we don’t get terribly nervous, other than when he gets in a fight, something like that.”
Mark and Tom Borowiecki are interviewed during the Senators’ father-and-son road trip last October.
There’s a before-game telephone routine among the Borowieckis, too, but this one involves texts.
“We don’t talk to him or call him. We tend to leave him alone. He has his own way of getting mentally prepared, we discovered in the college days … I’d say the only superstition on game day is I send him a text message saying, ‘Have a great game, pal,’ and he writes me back and says, ‘Thanks Dad.’ ”
On Friday, then, there will be a phone call at one home, an exchange of text messages at another.
And the words will be a comfort to all.
Fans watching at the Canadian Tire Centre cheer as the Senators score in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 11, 2015.
Watch from the rink
No Red Zone — that’s just for home games — but the CTC will again be open tonight for fans to watch the game on the scoreboard’s big screens. Doors open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. (or thereabouts) puck drop in Montreal.
Parking and admission are free, and concession stands will be open on the 100 and 200 levels, the Senators have announced. Plus there will be “live entertainment” — a melody of P.K. Subban parody songs? — during intermissions and post-game.
The Ottawa Senators Foundation will be collecting donations of canned goods for area food banks.
The rink has been open for every away game since the final regular-season game against Philadelphia, when 11,000 people congregated at the CTC on a Saturday afternoon. Nearly five tonnes of food was collected that day.
Spotted on Twitter
A little warm-up taking place as the #Sens get ready for morning skate at Bell Centre. pic.twitter.com/hpshXKs6g5
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) April 24, 2015
Yasir Naqvi gets in a "Go #Sens Go" at the beginning of his remarks and again at the end.
— Andrew Foote (@amkfoote) April 24, 2015
If #Sens can somehow beat Les Habitants tonite (BIG IF) it'll go 7. #youhearditherefirst
— Dr Bruce M Firestone (@ProfBruce) April 24, 2015
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Think you’ve been on the edge of your seat watching the Sens for the past three months? Imagine if you had a son or grandson on the team.
“As a parent, you watch and you just hope that your child has a good game and that he doesn’t get injured,” reports Cody Ceci’s mother, Karen.
“And as a Sens fan, I’m sitting there with a whole different set of nerves. The one where I want the team to win. I don’t care who scores. It doesn’t have to be my kid. I just want the puck to go in the net. I’m nervous for two different reasons.”
There are anxious moments, too, for Cody’s grandmother, Stella, who lives with Karen and Cody’s father, Parri, at their home in Orléans. At 90, she doesn’t often get to games at the Canadian Tire Centre, but she watches faithfully on television.
“I always say to my grandson — he calls me, he never misses, he calls me before every game, no matter where he is — I always say, ‘Son, all I want, play well, and don’t get hurt.’ That’s my main thing,” says Stella.
Cody Ceci, centre, with sister Chelsea, mother Karen, father Parri and brother Cole in a photo taken after Cody’s first NHL game.
Ceci and fellow Ottawa-born defenceman Mark Borowiecki are both making their playoff debuts under the eyes of friends and family.
Tom and Cindy Borowiecki usually watch from their Kanata home and sometimes look at each other, Tom confides, as if to say — pinch me, is that our son?
Yet at the same time, he believes, it’s an experience any parent can relate to — strange as some people might find that.
“That’s the one thing I’ve realized,” he said Thursday. “Whatever level your child is playing at, if they’re enjoying it, then you enjoy it.
“So we ARE enjoying it — we don’t get terribly nervous, other than when he gets in a fight, something like that.”
Mark and Tom Borowiecki are interviewed during the Senators’ father-and-son road trip last October.
There’s a before-game telephone routine among the Borowieckis, too, but this one involves texts.
“We don’t talk to him or call him. We tend to leave him alone. He has his own way of getting mentally prepared, we discovered in the college days … I’d say the only superstition on game day is I send him a text message saying, ‘Have a great game, pal,’ and he writes me back and says, ‘Thanks Dad.’ ”
On Friday, then, there will be a phone call at one home, an exchange of text messages at another.
And the words will be a comfort to all.
Fans watching at the Canadian Tire Centre cheer as the Senators score in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 11, 2015.
Watch from the rink
No Red Zone — that’s just for home games — but the CTC will again be open tonight for fans to watch the game on the scoreboard’s big screens. Doors open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. (or thereabouts) puck drop in Montreal.
Parking and admission are free, and concession stands will be open on the 100 and 200 levels, the Senators have announced. Plus there will be “live entertainment” — a melody of P.K. Subban parody songs? — during intermissions and post-game.
The Ottawa Senators Foundation will be collecting donations of canned goods for area food banks.
The rink has been open for every away game since the final regular-season game against Philadelphia, when 11,000 people congregated at the CTC on a Saturday afternoon. Nearly five tonnes of food was collected that day.
Spotted on Twitter
A little warm-up taking place as the #Sens get ready for morning skate at Bell Centre. pic.twitter.com/hpshXKs6g5
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) April 24, 2015
Yasir Naqvi gets in a "Go #Sens Go" at the beginning of his remarks and again at the end.
— Andrew Foote (@amkfoote) April 24, 2015
If #Sens can somehow beat Les Habitants tonite (BIG IF) it'll go 7. #youhearditherefirst
— Dr Bruce M Firestone (@ProfBruce) April 24, 2015
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