Ottawa Senators unravel as Travis Green delivers harsh reality check

Ullmark is Ottawa's No. 1 goalie and carries an $8,250,000 cap hit, so when Green publicly said he pulled him more because the team was awful in Florida, that wasn't routine coach frustration. It landed like a shot across the room.

Then the noise doubled. Posts tied to the one below said Ullmark and Brady Tkachuk were requested for media before Buffalo, but neither spoke.

That's where this gets ugly for Ottawa. A bad loss is one thing. A coach unloads, the starting goalie stays out of sight, and the captain is part of the same conversation? That's not normal game-day static.

The timing makes it worse. Ottawa went into April at 38-26-10 for 86 points, hanging in the Atlantic race but still looking up at Buffalo, which sat on 100 points before this matchup. That means every night is supposed to be about points, not damage control.

Tkachuk's absence from the microphones matters because captains usually absorb heat when the room gets loud. Ullmark's absence matters because Green's quote put the crease in the middle of the story whether he wanted that or not.

Now the question is whether Ottawa still looks connected at puck drop. If Ullmark starts and the Senators lock things down early, the storm cools fast. If the bench looks tense or Buffalo jumps them, Green's line becomes the quote that defines this stretch.

That's the real issue here. Ottawa doesn't just need a response on the scoreboard. It needs visible pushback from the room, because right now this looks less like accountability and more like a team letting a bad night turn into a public fracture.

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