Archive 1997-2016
Ottawa isn’t typically known as a sporting hotbed, but some believe that could be changing with four new professional sports teams poised to set up shop in the nation’s capital.
While the NHL is stuck in a season-killing contract dispute, Ottawa has symbolically traded in the ice for the hardwood following the announcement of the city’s first professional basketball team.
Centretown is on the list of targeted areas for the Sens Foundation and the City of Ottawa’s joint project to introduce a series of outdoor rinks to neighbourhoods in need across the city. 
Jill Adams, Centretown NewsMayor Jim Watson is joined by members of the Sens Foundation and and other city officials as they turn the sod for the second phase of Ottawa's community rinks initiative at Jules Morin Park in Lowertown.
There’s a crisis in the world of hockey and to the surprise of many it has nothing to do with Gary Bettman (or the NHL lockout).