My name is Eric Kwakernaak, and I’m a sports journalist and washed-up former AAA fourth-liner who hails from Ottawa, Ontario, but now lives and writes in Victoria, British Columbia. I’ve been a Senators fan my entire life, except for about 12 seconds after Chris Kunitz single-handedly set the franchise back a full century in the 2017 ECF. My hockey heroes are Jean Gabriel-Pageau, Erik Karlsson, and whoever was the most recent person to bodycheck Ryan Hartman.

Oh, I’m also canonically the inventor of the Bobby Orr diving goal (as seen above), except unlike that fraud, I actually scored while in the air. And with a wood stick, too.