- 1917
- 1920
- 1921
- 1923
- 1927
- 1934
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First Season in the NHL
The Senators’ first season in the NHL, 1917 – 1918, did not go well. Salary squabbles delayed the home opener (on the league’s first night, December 19, 1917) as players protested that their contracts were for twenty games, while the season schedule was for twenty-four. Enough players were appeased that the game started, 15 minutes late, while two players Hamby ... -
Stanley Cup Winner 1920
The 1920 Stanley Cup Finals were contested by the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Seattle Metropolitans. The Senators won the series by three games to two in the best-of-five game series. Although all of the games for the series were scheduled to be played at The Arena in Ottawa, unseasonably ... -
Stanley Cup Winner 1921
The 1921 Stanley Cup Finals were contested by the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Vancouver Millionaires. The Senators defeated Vancouver three games to two in the best-of-five game series to become the first team to win back-to-back Cup championships since the 1912 – 1913 Quebec Bulldogs. -
Stanley Cup Winner 1923
The 1923 Stanley Cup Finals were contested by the NHL champion Ottawa Senators and the WCHL champion Edmonton Eskimos. The previous WCHL-PCHA playoff format was abandoned, and the Ottawa Senators now had to play first with the PCHA champion Vancouver Maroons, followed by the WCHL champion Edmonton Eskimos in the Final. This would be the last Final until the 1983 Final to ... -
Stanley Cup Winner 1927
The 1927 Stanley Cup Finals were played by the Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins. It was the first time the Cup was solely contested by National Hockey League teams, owing to the demise of the Western Hockey League the previous year. It was won by the Ottawa Senators, coached by Dave Gill, over the Boston Bruins, coached by Art ... -
End of the First NHL Era in Ottawa
Despite finishing in the last place for the second year in a row, the Senators actually improved their attendance over the previous season. Even with the increased gate, they barely survived the season. After the season ended, it was announced by Auditorium president F. D. Burpee that the franchise would not return to Ottawa for the 1934 – 1935 season ...
History of the Senators
The Ottawa Senators were a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League (NHL), and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club (Ottawa HC), was known by several nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907, and the Senators dating from 1908.
The club was one of the first organized clubs in the early days of the sport of ice hockey, playing in the Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournaments in the early 1880s and founding the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada and the Ontario Hockey Association. Along with the rise of professionalism in ice hockey in the first decade of the 1900s, the club changed into a professional team and was a founding member of the National Hockey Association (NHA) and its successor, the National Hockey League. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933 – 1934 season. Due to financial difficulties, the NHL franchise relocated to St. Louis, Missouri to become the St. Louis Eagles. The organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, the team in Quebec senior men’s leagues until 1954.
Established
1917
City
Ottawa – St. Louis
League History
1917 – 1935 / National Hockey League
Team History
1934 – 1935 / St. Louis Eagles
1917 – 1934 / Ottawa Senators
Nickname
Senators – It is during the NHA period that the nickname “Ottawa Senators” came into common usage. Although there had been a competing Senators club in 1909, and there had been mention of the Senators nickname as early as 1901, the nickname was not adopted by the club. The official name of the Ottawa Hockey Club remained in place until ownership changes in the 1930s.
Championship
Stanley Cup 4
1927, 1923, 1921, 1920
Arena
1934 – 1935 / St. Louis Arena
*Ottawa*
1923 – 1934 / Ottawa Auditorium
1908 – 1923 / The Arena
Owner
1929 – 1935 / Ottawa Auditorium
1925 – 1929 / Frank Ahearn
1923 – 1925 / Tommy Gorman and Frank Ahearn
1918 – 1923 / Tommy Gorman and Ted Dey
1917 – 1918 / Tommy Gorman, Ted Dey and Martin Rosenthal
Retired Number
*Blue is this team’s history