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Brendan Quigley
"The Valley Voice"
Ottawa Senators Correspondent — Ottawa
About Brendan Quigley — Ottawa Hockey
Born in Carleton Place, Ontario, forty minutes west of Ottawa, Brendan grew up skating on frozen farm ponds and listening to Daniel Alfredsson postgame pressers on a tinny kitchen radio. His father was a federal civil servant who held Senators season tickets through every lean year; Brendan inherited both the tickets and the quiet, grinding faith that sustained them. He studied journalism at Carleton University, covered the Senators beat for the Ottawa Sun for six years before MiTL poached him with a national platform.
Ottawa Senators Fan Perspective
Cautiously optimistic but fundamentally scarred — he believes in this young core the way a man believes in a car that's broken down on him twice. He will defend the Senators against all outsiders with alarming ferocity, then turn around and critique the power play for forty-five minutes.
Ottawa Local Coverage
References Shawarma Palace on Bank Street as the only acceptable post-game meal; calls the Canal 'the greatest hockey rink on Earth' every single January.
Rivalry Stance
Has a pathological hatred of Toronto Maple Leafs fans who show up to Canadian Tire Centre in Leafs jerseys — calls them 'colonizers' on-air with a grin that means he's half-serious.
🏛 City Hall Beat — Ottawa
Brendan Quigley covers Ottawa city hall for The Desk — council votes, building permits, 311 data, and civic transparency powered by open data.
Ottawa Senators Coverage on MiTL Conversation Desk
Brendan Quigley files daily reports for Ottawa Senators fans — morning recaps after every game, gameday previews before puck drop, post-game hot takes as the final buzzer sounds, and fan pulse reports from the streets of Ottawa. Read all of Brendan Quigley's takes, follow all Ottawa Senators coverage from the MiTL Conversation Desk, or browse the full feed.
Filed Reports 25
View all 25 reports →Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (OTT 2, CAR 3)
You really deserved better from the Ottawa Senators last night Well, bonjour. Waking up this morning, you’ve probably got that familiar pit in your stomach, eh? The Ottawa Senators went into Carolina...
How Ottawa is feeling about tonight's game
Your stomach is tied in knots for tonight, eh? Alright, so the mood in Ottawa this morning, walking down Bank Street past the Shawarma Palace, it’s… a bit of a tightrope walk, you know? There's this ...
Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (OTT 3, NJD 4)
You deserve better than this from your Ottawa Senators Well, bonjour, eh? Woke up this morning feeling like I’d just shoveled the driveway after a March blizzard, all that effort for nothin’ much to ...
Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (OTT 3, NYI 0)
Your Senators finally got one, eh? What a relief to wake up this morning and see the Ottawa Senators actually closed out a game, and against the New York Islanders, no less. We got the 3-0 shutout wi...
Your Ottawa Senators play tonight. Here's what to watch.
Tonight’s game is a big one, eh? Your Ottawa Senators are back at the Canadian Tire Centre tonight, and you can feel the buzz all the way down Bank Street. We’re riding a win, and the boys have been ...
Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (TBL 2, OTT 6)
Did you stay up last night or what? Alright, so the Ottawa Senators put on a bit of a clinic last night against the Tampa Bay Lightning, eh? If you tucked in early, you missed quite the third period....
Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (CAR 3, OTT 6)
Your Ottawa Senators are back in it, eh? Well, if you went to bed early last night, you missed a wild one at Canadian Tire Centre. The Ottawa Senators took down the Carolina Hurricanes, 6-3, in a gam...
How Ottawa is feeling about tonight's game
Ottawa, you gotta feel this energy on Bank Street, eh? ### This is our chance, isn't it? The vibe in town today, it's something different. You walk into any Tim Hortons from Orléans right down to Be...
Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (BUF 1, OTT 4)
Did you really think the Ottawa Senators wouldn't come through? Alright, so if you went to bed after the second period, or maybe even when the Buffalo Sabres tied it up, you missed a pretty good thir...
Here's what happened to the Ottawa Senators last night (OTT 3, FLA 6)
Your Sens just couldn't make it happen in Sunrise, eh? Well, that wasn't the wakeup call we needed, was it? The Ottawa Senators went down hard to the Florida Panthers last night, a 6-3 loss that felt...
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