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So yeah, I see everybody posting long articles about this teams past and I thought to myself, how can I do the same without showing my large lack of Hockey knowledge? So here it is, a look into the past of the Sens (this Sens, not the very successful Sens that won a Stanley Cup, damn Ducks), starting from our worst season.

10-70-4 (24 points), Finished 6th in NHL Adams Division

Scored 202 goals, Allowed 395 goals

Home record 9–29–4

Road record 1–41–0

Awards

• Molson Cup - Sylvain Turgeon
• NHL All-Star Game selection - Brad Marsh, Peter Sidorkiewicz

Things were bad for the Sens even before the season started. At the 1992 Expansion Draft, Ottawa's laptop failed and they drafted many ineligible players. They wanted to draft players from both the Habs and Leafs, but couldn't because both teams have the max players (two) taken from them. The team they did draft, however, was nothing more than players who would have been 3rd or 4th linemen on any other team. And you thought Cheechoo was bad! For the draft, the Sens picked the very unknown (and future jackass) Alexei Yashin. Who would be the team's future captain (and first Dany Heatley).

A rare good thing that could be said about this team was they won their first game. Against the Habs no less! On October 8th, 1992, the Sens beat the Habs 5-3 in front of  10,449 at the sold-out Ottawa Civic Centre. The ceremonial face-off between Laurie Boschman and Denis Savard was done by Frank Finnigan, Jr. (his father having died on Christmas Day, 1991), Bruce Firestone and Gil Stein. It also had Brian Orser skating, the 9 banners being raised to honour the Senators' Stanley Cup wins (which we'll gladly take credit for) , retirement of Frank Finnigan's jersey number and the singing of the anthem by Alanis Morissette (holy hell!).

The rest of the season sucked, as the team was fighting with the Sharks in what is called the Daigle Cup. The Sens blew games, asked teams to start their best players, and even made weaker game-plans. NHL rules at the time made it so the worst team got the first pick, and Ottawa beat out the Sharks for the worst team in NHL (Go us!). Of course that rule was changed in 1995 as the NHL did it's best to copy the NBA whenever they had the chance. And things ended poorly there, too. They drafted Alexandre Daigle, who sucked. But I'll talk about that later, if anyone is still reading this (looking good Pete, have you lost weight?).