We have a heavy hitter for today’s guest on episode! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are pleased to welcome back onto the show, Gabriel Eliasson! Big Gabe tells us about his off-season so far, reflects on the OHL Playoffs with the Barrie Colts and looks ahead to the Summer Showcase with Team Sweden! Xavier Bourgault signs a two-way deal with the Ottawa Senators so we discuss his impact and which Restricted Free Agents are left for the Sens to make decisions on.

It’s time for Season Three of Ring of Honour! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are joined by our good friend Lalime’s Martian for this episode to kick things off! The topic: Biggest NHL Draft Misses in Ottawa Senators History. We set some parameters for this to keep things under control: only the picks made in Rounds One and Two, and it can only be players picked in five or less picks behind when the Sens made their selection. Who drafted the best team? Let us know in the comments and vote @SensCentral on Twitter!

Goalie Week continues! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are joined by Ottawa Senators prospect Kevin Reidler to chat about his decision to transfer from Omaha to Penn State, the excitement around that team with the additions of Gavin McKenna and Jackson Smith, plus Kevin shares his experience from Sens Dev Camp and a bunch of goalie talk.

We are a #GoalieFriendlyShow so we invite some tendies onto the podcast! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are pleased to welcome CHL Goalie of the Year, Jackson Parsons onto the show! Jackson tells us about growing up in the Ottawa area and it being an easy decision to sign with the Senators, his experience in Development Camp and his final season in the OHL with the Kitchener Rangers! We wrap the show up discussing our top four favourite Sens goalies!

What an amazing way to end off our full-time season than an interview with Ottawa Senators captain: Brady Tkachuk! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are pleased to welcome Brady back onto the show! He tells us about his off-season so far, how motivating it was to play in the Four Nations Face-Off, his emotions playing in his first NHL Stanley Cup Playoff series and looking forward to getting back to action with the team next season!

Get to know one of the newest Ottawa Senators prospects - Bruno Idzan! Ross Levitan and Brandon Piller are joined by the 1st ever Croatian-born NHL Draft pick to chat about his unique path to the Sens organization, how he found out Ottawa chose him, committing to Wisconsin and more!

We have some championship aura with our guest on today’s show! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are pleased to welcome on OHL and Memorial Cup Champion, Ottawa Senators Prospect: Blake Montgomery! Blake tells us about his off-season, playing with the wagon of the OHL in the London Knights, Sens Development Camp and his excitement to join other Sens prospects at the University of Wisconsin! We also recap some of the major points of the new NHL CBA!

It’s time to catch up with Pistol Pete! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are pleased to welcome on #FriendOfTheShow Oskar Pettersson! Oskar tells us about his off-season so far, winning the Hardest Worker Award in Ottawa Senators Development Camp and making the adjustment from playing wing most of his life to being a centreman with the Belleville Sens!

It’s all about Wisconsin Badgers hockey for the Ottawa Senators these days! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are pleased to welcome Nathan “Grav” Murdock (@NathanGraviteh) onto the show! Nathan covers the NHL and prospects and has lots of optimism about how the Sens did in the 2025 NHL Draft. He tells us about Logan Hensler, Blake Montgomery, Bruno Idzan and the Badgers program in general! We wrap the show up discussing some AHL deals the Sens made recently too!

Embrace debate. Ross Levitan and Brandon Piller are joined by Locked On NHL Prospects host and scout with EliteProspects Sebastian High to discuss the Ottawa Senators haul at the 2025 NHL Draft, how it impacts their overall prospect pool and why he truly believes that 2025 23rd overall pick Logan Hensler is a better prospect than 2024 7th overall pick Carter Yakemchuk.

It’s that time in the NHL off-season where Ottawa Senators fans start to ponder: Should the Sens bring back Erik Karlsson? Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan debate if now its the right time to bring back the three time Norris Trophy winning defenceman? Is he a good fit, what would the cost of retention be and what is his trade value? We also go over some more depth signings in Wyatt Bongiovanni and Hayden Hodgson. And what are the remaining needs for the organization?

Free Agency Frenzy Day was a bit of a dud yesterday, but the Ottawa Senators have made a few notable signings! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan discuss the Sens signing veteran Lars Eller to a one year deal! A few minor signings to help the Belleville Senators including Olle Lycksell, Hunter Shepard and Arthur Kaliyev. We also look around the league at some players we had interest in getting deals, did the Sens miss out on them or were we happy they stayed clear? And Sens Development Camp starts today in Ottawa so we each declare players we are excited about!

Happy Canada Day and Free Agency Frenzy Day! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan get you set for the big day! First we recap the pair of re-signings by the Ottawa Senators with Leevi Merilainen and Nick Cousins returning on one year deals. Then we discuss what the Sens priorities should be for the day. And finally we each pick four players, draft style, that we think the Sens should realistically target with free agent signings!

A packed episode with lots of positive news for the Ottawa Senators over the weekend! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan are stoked to chat about Claude Giroux re-signing with the Sens a one year deal with bonuses. We break down the bonuses and what this mean for the Sens remaining cap space. We quickly analyze the five prospects taken on day two of the draft in Rounds 2-7. And we take a look at the remaining restricted free agents who need to be qualified and who we would like to see stay within the organization!

The First Round of the 2025 NHL Draft is complete! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan give our immediate reaction after watching all 32 picks. The Ottawa Senators traded back from 21st overall with the Nashville Predators to acquire picks 23rd and 67th. And with the 23rd overall pick they selected right shot defenceman from the University of Wisconsin, Logan Hensler! We describe the value the Sens got here, what type of player he is and expectations for his development. We also comment on how the decentralized draft went, surprises picks and risers and fallers.

The 2025 NHL Draft is here, it’s tonight! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan discuss their excitement and ways that this draft could go off the rails with rumours of trades and prospects sliding down the list! We take a look at multiple different mock drafts and who people have projected the Ottawa Senators may select. And we make a list of 10 realistic players that fit the Sens type that could be available at 21st overall.

With the 2025 NHL Draft just one day away, it’s time to finalize our top 50 Prospect Rankings! Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan each made our own lists and compare players they have in different spots. Who are we high on, who are we low on and why? J.J Peterka was finally traded from the Buffalo Sabres to the Utah Mammoth! We take a look at the return and if there is a comparable deal the Sens could’ve offered and if that would’ve made sense.

Ottawa Senators President of Hockey Operations and General Manager, Steve Staios and Head Scout Don Boyd spoke to the media today so we discuss some of the things they mentioned. Brandon Piller and Ross Levitan talk about the Sens possibly trading back in the 2025 NHL draft and where things are at with some unsigned free agents. We do a full audit of the trends and patterns of the Sens drafting since 2020. What can we predict the Sens preferred type of prospect is based of this information?