Senators players apologize after being caught criticizing team on video recording
Ottawa Senators players who were caught on tape joking about and criticizing their team’s defence in a video posted online are apologizing for their comments.
The Senators released a statement Monday night from Thomas Chabot, Dylan DeMelo, Matt Duchene, Alex Formenton, Chris Tierney, Chris Wideman and Colin White, who were shown talking about Ottawa’s ineffective penalty kill and mocking one of their coaches in a recording that apparently came from a camera mounted on the dash of an Uber driver’s van or SUV.
The players mocked assistant coach Martin Raymond, who handles the team’s penalty-killing unit, in the five-minute clip that was recorded in Phoenix during Ottawa’s west-coast road trip at the end of October.
“We want to apologize publicly to Marty Raymond, our teammates and coaches for our comments in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29,” read the statement emailed to The Canadian Press.