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11 unusual facts about Ottawa Senators


2014 Heritage Classic

It is scheduled to take place on March 2, 2014, in BC Place, with the Ottawa Senators facing off against home team Vancouver Canucks.

Chris Bala

Bala was drafted 58th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft from Harvard University and managed to play six regular season games for the Senators during the 2001–02 NHL season, scoring one assist.

Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Florida

The NHL rescheduled its Saturday, October 22 regular-season game between the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers to Monday, December 5.

Ksenia Smetanenko

She is married to professional hockey player Sergei Gonchar of the Ottawa Senators, whom she met at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

OC Transpo routes

Canadian Tire Connexion routes 401 through 406 operate on all dates with Ottawa Senators games and also events or concerts of medium to large attendance (6,000 persons or over).

401-406: These routes provide special service to and from Canadian Tire Centre for Ottawa Senators games and concerts, and other events.

Ottawa Fat Cats

The cap logo is a stylized 'O' (similar to the alternate logo used by the city's NHL team, the Ottawa Senators), with horizontal black, red and white stripes through the 'O'.

Paul MacLean

Paul MacLean (ice hockey), former professional ice hockey player and current head coach of the Ottawa Senators

Robbinsdale Cooper High School

Former NHL Hockey player Lance Pitlick, a defenseman who played between 1994 and 2002 for the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers.

St. Albert, Ontario

The NHL's Ottawa Senators donated a pair of tickets to a future game to each employee affected by the fire on behalf of player André Benoit, who worked at the factory as a teenager.

The Glebe

Lansdowne Park also contains the Ottawa Civic Centre, which is the permanent home of the Ottawa 67's and was the temporary home (1992–1995) for the Ottawa Senators before Canadian Tire Centre (originally called The Palladium) was completed.


1925–26 NHL season

The second seed Montreal Maroons beat the third seed Pittsburgh Pirates and then went on to beat first place Ottawa Senators two goals to one in a two-game total goals series, thus capturing the O'Brien Cup, Prince of Wales Trophy and the right to play the Victoria Cougars for the Stanley Cup.

Bob Kudelski

Kudelski was traded to the Ottawa Senators during their inaugural season of 1992–93, and made an immediate scoring impact, finishing only four goals behind Sylvain Turgeon for the team lead despite playing 25 fewer games for the Senators.

Brad Tapper

However, on January 6, 2004, the Atlanta Thrashers recalled and traded Tapper to the Ottawa Senators for Daniel Corso.

Caroline Ouellette

On April 17, 2012, Ouellette (along with Meghan Agosta, Gillian Apps, Courtney Birchard, and head coach Dan Church) took part in the opening face off of the playoff game between the Ottawa Senators and the New York Rangers at ScotiaBank Place.

CHRO-TV

Ottawa Senators Hockey (20 regular-season games a year of the Canadian capital city's NHL team, which were usually, but not always, broadcast on Thursday evenings) - with Dean Brown as play-by-play announcer and Gord Wilson as commentator.

Flash Hollett

Frank William "Bill, Flash" Hollett (April 13, 1912 in North Sydney, Nova Scotia – April 20, 1999 in Mississauga, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings.

Jason Bailey

On September 4, 2009 the Anaheim Ducks traded Bailey to the Ottawa Senators for Shawn Weller.

Joe Lamb

Joseph Gordon Lamb (b. June 18, 1906 in Sussex, New Brunswick – d. August 21, 1982) was a professional ice hockey forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Maroons, Ottawa Senators, New York Americans, Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Eagles and Detroit Red Wings.

Mick McGeough

After giving up the game-winning goal to the Ottawa Senators' Rob Zamuner during Game 3 of first round of the 2000 Stanley Cup Playoffs, an irate Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Curtis Joseph charged after McGeough to argue that goaltender interference should have been called.

Molson Brewery

Among many sports sponsorships, Molson and/or Coors also have deals with the Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Colorado Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and Detroit Red Wings, and their beverages can be purchased at other sports venues, such as the home of the Philadelphia Flyers, the Wells Fargo Center and the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center

Old King Clancy

King Clancy was the nickname given to Francis Clancy who played in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1921 to 1937.

Sport in Poland

Poland has managed to produce some NHL calibre talent including Mariusz Czerkawski with the New York Islanders, Peter Sidorkiewicz for both the Hartford Whalers and the Ottawa Senators, and Krzysztof Oliwa for the New Jersey Devils where he won a Stanley Cup in 1999–2000.