7 Senators players filmed the trashing team and his coach during an Uber tour

A group of seven Ottawa Senators players apologized after a video showing that they insulted the team and an assistant coach during an Uber race, the latest humiliation for an organization that suffers from this plague recently.

The video shows players discussing their ineffective punishment and making fun of assistant Martin Raymond in what appears to be a recording of a camera mounted on the dashboard of a van or truck. an Uber SUV. There are seven players in the vehicle, including Matt Duchene, Chris Wideman, Chris Tierney and Thomas Chabot.

Post Media shared the video on its YouTube page on Monday night. The video was posted elsewhere this weekend and has been removed. We do not know who posted the original video.

"We want to apologize to Marty Raymond, our teammates and our coaches, for our comments in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29," said the players in a statement released Monday by the team. "Our private conversation has been recorded without our knowledge or consent, we are passionate about our team and our goal is to grow together and we are grateful for the support of our fans and organization." An important learning experience and we will do better. "

Senators coach Guy Boucher said in a statement that the club had "all confidence in Marty Raymond 's coach," and that he "considers this a matter of interest. team and will not make any other comments to the media ".

Towards the beginning of the video, the pilot is heard and asks which team the players play. Wideman, sitting in the passenger's seat, answers, "Ottawa, if you can say, we're really happy with our …" in front of a player The player sitting in the middle row ends his sentence: "with our PK".

Players ridicule Raymond, who runs the team's anti-penalty unit, in the five-minute clip that appears to have been recorded in the Phoenix area.

"Marty Raymond, the only NHL history coach to have the worst power play and the worst PK of the calendar year," said Duchene.

Duchene later adds that he "(did not) listened in three weeks" to Raymond's meetings.

"Here's the other thing too, we never change anything, so why do we even have a meeting?" he says.

The Senators are currently in 29th place in the standings with 68.8%.

The team did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.

Uber Canada's general manager, Rob Khazzam, said Monday night on his Twitter account that "a video broadcast by the media today showing several Uber passengers filmed without their consent while on the road." they were chatting privately … is a flagrant violation of our terms of service "

"Filming or recording passengers without their consent is totally unacceptable and if we report / detect we will investigate," he added.

The Senators have been trying to improve their image after a year marked by failures and embarrassment. Team owner Eugene Melnyk threatened to move the team last season if ticket sales did not improve, but has since pledged to keep the team in Ottawa.

In May, the wife of former captain Erik Karlsson filed a protection order against the fiancée of teammate Mike Hoffman, claiming that she had published more than 1,000 comments "negative and derogatory" on social networks. Karlsson and Hoffman were both exchanged this summer.