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NHL's Ottawa Senators Declare Bankruptcy

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Stefan Fatsis, sportswriter for The Wall Street Journal, about the Ottowa Senators. The NHL team has declared bankruptcy, a move that has important implications for the professional hockey and other sports leagues. The mere mention of contraction set the baseball world astir. Hockey, a less-robust professional sport, may face more pronounced turmoil.

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Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.