Senators players caught trash-talking team on video

Several Ottawa Senators players were caught on tape joking and trash-talking their team’s defence in a video posted online, adding another scandal to an organization that’s been riddled with them lately.

A video on a Post Media outlet’s YouTube page shows Senators players talking about their ineffective penalty kill and mocking one of their coaches in what appears to be a recording from a camera mounted on the dash of an Uber driver’s van or SUV. There are seven players in the vehicle, including Matt Duchene, Chris Wideman, Chris Tierney and Thomas Chabot.

The Uber driver is heard asking what team the players play for near the beginning of the video and Wideman, seated in the passenger seat, replies: “Ottawa. If you can tell we’re really pleased with our ...” A player seated in the middle row of the vehicle finishes his sentence: “with our PK.”

The players go on to mock assistant coach Martin Raymond, who handles the team’s penalty-killing unit, in the fiveminute clip that appears to have been recorded in the Phoenix area. “Marty Raymond, the only coach in NHL history to have the worst power play and the worst PK within a calendar year,” Duchene says.

Duchene later adds that he “(hasn’t) paid attention in three weeks” in Raymond’s meetings.

“Here’s the other thing, too. We don’t change anything ever. So why do we even have a meeting?” he says. The Senators are currently 29th in the league in penalty killing at 68.8 per cent.

The team did not immediately respond to The Canadian Press’s request for comment on Monday night.

A Post Media story Monday said the video was posted elsewhere online over the weekend and has since been deleted. It’s not clear who posted the original video.

Uber Canada’s General Manager Rob Khazzam said on his verified Twitter account on Monday night that “a video released by the media today of several Uber passengers being filmed without their consent while having a private discussion ... is a clear violation of our terms of service”

“Filming or recording passengers without their consent is totally unacceptable and if reported/detected we will investigate,” he added.