Sens Today: Locker Clean Out Day

Sens Today: Locker Clean Out Day

It was locker cleanout day for the sends on Saturday. A slew of players meeting with the media. A lot of great stuff from the entire group on Saturday as well. And despite the tough end of the season on Thursday night in game six against the Leafs, overall a point of pride on what they accomplished this year getting to the playoffs and putting up a fight against the Leafs in round one. I said after the game that everything happens for a reason and and I think it’s going to create uh that much more excitement for this group uh for next year and what we’re able to do and and know the belief that we have in each other to to do what needs to be done. Doesn’t feel like the season’s over. Um but it’s coming back in the same headsp space and the same mindset of uh doing whatever it takes. We’re going to go back into next season and it’s not fortunately it’s not going to be any easier to get into the playoffs. We saw how tight it was this year. It’s going to be same thing if not maybe even harder next year. So, um, but you know what? You got to look back on the things on on on this season, everything we accomplish and how big of a step we came uh we we took as a group. I’m really looking forward to get things rolling again. And um I’m proud of this team in a lot of ways. Uh I think we found a way after being down three nothing. uh coming back, fighting back in the series and giving us a chance. Um throughout the year, uh I think everybody bought in um which was really impressive to see. Uh all the guys came back in great shape uh after the summer uh worked really hard and um yeah, it just it showed me again how much we want to win here and um yeah, I’m proud of the guys. I love all those guys and uh I think we can be proud in a way of how the season went, but I think there’s still more to come. Also, multiple comments today from the group on the energy both in the city and at the rink in the leadup to the playoffs and in the three games at home in the playoffs as well. It’s just so fun. I think uh for a while there every time the spring uh time came around we weren’t playing meaningful hockey and then just to have that to experience the fans here just everything is is probably most fun I’ve had playing hockey in my life and you know the best is yet to come for us and I’m just excited for the future. So it was it was definitely a cool experience though just to live the the home game and and seeing 20,000 people standing during a TV timeout. I I don’t I don’t think there’s many ranks in the NHL that you’re going to see that and um over the years you we heard a lot about the guys before that lived the playoffs here and you hear um so many different things and to finally see it I think it was it was just special. It was good to good experience for a whole group and it was it was definitely a lot of fun. Jake Sanderson also spoke today about the experience of playing playoff hockey and the overall growth of his game as the season went along. I think at the start of the season I was a little wrapped up in, you know, trying to just do too much, trying to be something I wasn’t. And I think as the season went on, kind of settled into my play a little bit more and uh got got found out the player I want to be. Um yeah, but I think like just one season, you know, like you had good parts of the season that’s uh that doesn’t really make a career, so I just want to keep building. And the same goes for Tyler Cleven, the young blue liner, developing his play as the season went along, talking about his experience in the playoffs. Being able to see the Canadian Tire Center like that, um it was an unbelievable experience. Uh I think that uh getting all the guys into the playoffs and experiencing that and um I think I took so much away from you know that kind of hockey and um just uh you know, I want to be back in it as soon as possible. There’s a lot of different, you know, development things that I wanted to work on throughout the season and, um, you know, I think that we hit those points, uh, you know, here and there and, um, you know, I felt like by the end of the year I was kind of playing my kind of hockey and, um, trying to contribute to the team. Um, just, um, yeah, I think that that’s kind of how my season went. Many comments today as well on Brady Kachchuck and his leadership throughout the season into the playoffs as well and what he brings to the group. I mean, he’s a heck of a leader. He’s obviously a heck of a hockey player. He’s extremely passionate. Um he he’s someone that is, you know, not necessarily dragging you in the fight, but dragging you in the fight, you know, like um he he’s he’s he’s he wears it on his sleeve every night. and whether it’s a big goal, whether it’s, you know, stepping up physically with the fight as you see him do. I mean, he’s he’s a unique player in the league in that sense. Like, I don’t really know if there’s too many like him. Yeah. You can tell what it means. Like, even just with the kids in the dressing room and things like that. Like, you can tell he’s growing up in the NHL dressing room and the impact that he can have on my kids or, you know, like to to my kids, he’s just Brady. That’s it. Don’t realize, you know, how good of a player he is and things like that. But, uh, he is a heck of a leader and he’s an important one for us. And despite the disappointment from the group in not continuing on in the Stanley Cup playoffs, a determined group going into next year, I think everybody’s going to get even stronger throughout the summer. uh everybody going to is going to work harder uh probably even than last year and um going to give everything they have because uh now we know what it feels like to be in the playoffs and uh what it means to this city, what it means to this uh fan base and um yeah, it’s just it’s just a special place to play and I think for us it’s um just the motivation we have in in us that uh we’re going to continue to get better. um we are still really young and um now we know what it takes to get in, but um we’re going to try and figure out a way to to win those games. I think the series could have went either way. Um so that takes experience experience as well and um yeah, I’m just uh I’m just really excited to what the future is holding for us and um I can’t wait to get playing again. Steve Stos and Travis Green are also expected to meet the media on Monday, wrapping up this look back on the 24-25 season. For Science 360, I’m Jackson Star.

It was locker clean out day at Canadian Tire Centre so the players met with the media to share their thoughts on the #Sens season and playoff run. Jackson Starr recaps the storylines from the day in Sens Today.