A Look Back at the Original Ottawa Senators

[@nickholmes5610]

Loved watching them live as a kid

[@rowdyruffboy120]

LMAO you wouldn’t even be alive today if you actually saw them in the 1880’s

[@LucaC27]

​@@rowdyruffboy120r/woosh

[@nickholmes5610]

*Doctor who theme song*

[@TheBoyer19]

I was one of the fans that threw lemons

[@rowdyruffboy120]

@@TheBoyer19 LMAO

[@EncorePerformances]

I think my favourite old school Ottawa Senators fact is Eddie Gerard's four straight Stanley Cups. He only played for Ottawa, but he won the Stanley Cup from 1920-23. How is this possible? One of the Toronto St. Pats players got injured, and back then, due to small rosters, you were allowed to request a substitute from a different team so long as your opponent allowed it. The Vancouver Millionaires agreed, and Toronto chose to have Gerard step in for game 4 of the SCF. Gerard played an instrumental role in that game, which allowed Toronto to smash Vancouver and force a 5th and deciding game, which they won. Gerard was technically captain of the Senators that year, but was part of Toronto's official winning roster.

[@JK_35]

i see a future Heritage Classic game, Ottawa Vs Seattle, in both period looking jerseys outdoors

[@TheBoyer19]

I would love to see a video about the 1905 stanley cup challenge about the Dawson City Nuggets vs the Senators. Its amazing the Dawson city team even made it to the game on time considering how travel was in those times

[@JeffKing310]

Epic Peter Puck episode.

[@jobemi2422]

CBC did a ‘History of Hockey’ series a while back (early 2010’s I believe) and the Nuggets challenging the OG Sens is part of that series lol. Highly recommend it if you’re craving some off-season hockey content. Goes all the way back to the invention of the sport to the modern era.

[@TheBoyer19]

@@jobemi2422 I'll have to find that, I find the early history of hockey so interesting

[@maxcapacity7022]

My Great Grandpa played in the 1905 series against the Ottawa team. He played for Dawson City. This was the most lop-sided Stanley Cup Finals score in history. 19-2 was the final score in game 2 if I can remember right. Game 1 was a little closer than Game 2.

[@Brainspoil]

I'm calling it now, the 2026-27 season, Seattle and Ottawa in the Stanley Cup finals.

[@larryn1929]

A bold and daring pick! Not impossible!

[@DocSportello1970]

Ottawa definitely likes Long Playoff runs in Years ending in 7....2007 Loss in The Finals to Ducks. 2017 Loss in Conference Finals to Pitt,. 2027????

[@milesdockendorff]

I wish

[@nahiyanishtiaque1283]

They should've just said that they went on a 60-year hiatus lol

[@TheSpeedophile76]

Thinking that the Quebec Nordiques pull off the same hiatus just wishing not that long 😕

[@alesd2120]

I would like to see some throwback jersey to the St.Louis Eagles - and then there could be some "heritage" game between StL and Ottawa

[@brianjones7660]

$ 50,000 in 1931 per Inflation Calculator would be $1.4 million today (USD)....

[@THE_bchat]

At first glance, that doesn't seem too bad, until you consider how much smaller the arenas were back then. A sell-out crowd for the original Senators would have been 7500, and I doubt fans were paying the equivalent of today's prices for seats. So, $50,000 in losses for one year would be a huge amount of money back then (and they lost money in more than one season). It's not like they had tv deals to off-set their debt, and I would doubt they made enough money from merchandise to help absorb that loss.

[@wwk68tig]

I"ve been intrigued by Ottawa's history, but too lazy to look it up. Fun watch. Thannks, THG..........

[@edpottinger849]

Interesting.I liked the team immediately when they first started with Alfredson,Philips,Fischer,Hossa and company. I think the reason I like them so much is the jersey and a fascination with Rome and Julius Gaius Ceasar.

[@mattgardiner744]

There’s a great book by Paul Kitchen called Win, Tie, or Wrangle about the original Sens and how dominant they were

[@craigforsberg9844]

Love these videos that you put out of the old teams.

[@JaffaJannu]

"And so they threw lemons at the opposing team. Which was the style at the time!"

[@raytaylor6412]

Unfortunatly, a variation of that exists today, where idiots throw bananas at players of African descent.

[@JaffaJannu]

@@raytaylor6412 yet somehow I'm not even slightly surprised

[@waldron2776]

@@raytaylor6412 when?!

[@drivethru6155]

I did take a look at all the old timey players and I love all the names. I think I saw a player named Red Green, so maybe that's where the 1990s comedy show got its name. I am definitely going to get a Cy Denney jersey if the Sens do another run of heritage ones :)

[@christhornycroft3686]

One of the supporting actors was named Rick Green, oddly enough. Not in the show, in real life.

[@larryn1929]

Great job! How about a Cleveland Barons lesson?

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

The Leafs are very grateful for King Clancy who helped Leafs' Morale from the time he got to the Leafs for $30,000.

[@joeb2151]

This was interesting, thank you.

[@JohnnyDanger-th4ui]

What about the time they kicked the Stanley Cup into the Rideau Canal?

[@ronfroehlich4697]

I would love one of the sweaters from the thumbnail for pond hockey

[@raantaas96]

I have the Stanley Cup Centennial book from 1992. Excellent read, recommended. Hockey from over a hundred years ago was so crazy. They didnt give one thought about using their heavy, heavy wooden sticks as weapons back then. Very informative book from the 1890s to 1992.

[@85blutch]

Yeah, until the 60's stick fights were a thing, that's something that would be considered completely crazy nowadays.

[@jerryjhudson]

My uncle's great-great uncle was Ted Dey, one of the owners of the Ottawa Senators in 1917 and was sole owner in 1919 - 1923.

[@hijackjoe]

I did laundry at the original Senators club house in Ottawa, which is a laundromat now.

[@f.n04]

Greatest dynasty in all of sports and the real Original 1 team ;)

[@ugiswrong]

Shannon appearing in the vid thumbnail in a group

[@AgAg-yn3cv]

You beat me to it with the description Shan

[@DocSportello1970]

Go Sens Go!

[@biphx]

Beautiful video again

[@sdgakatbk]

Very interesting video. What books did you use for it?

[@sebastiencarrieres8825]

I couldn't find Canadian inflation since the 1930, but 50 grand in 1960 would be the equivalent of 500,000. I could find 1930 inflation since the 30s only in the US, and that would be close to a million!

[@OttawaNow]

WHY ISN’T PETE GREEN IN THE HOCKEY HALL OF FAME IN THE BUILDER CATEGORY? PETER “PETE” GREEN - 10 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS 01. 1903 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Trainer) 02. 1904 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Trainer) 03. 1905 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Trainer) 04. 1906 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Trainer) 05. 1909 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Head Coach) 06. 1910 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Head Coach) 07. 1911 - Ottawa Hockey Club (Head Coach) 08. 1920 - Ottawa Senators (Head Coach) 09. 1921 - Ottawa Senators (Head Coach) 10. 1923 - Ottawa Senators (Head Coach)

[@j.t.miller1641]

Good video!

[@oldhab7890]

Great video

[@JPMadden]

In the Challenge Cup era (1893-1914), the Stanley Cup could be contested more than once per year. Shannon is correct that the Ottawa Silver Sevens won the Cup in 1903, 1904, and 1905, but they actually won it more than once each of those years. In fact, after the Montreal Hockey Club won it on January 31, 1903, and again FOUR DAYS later on February 4, Ottawa won it ELEVEN times in a row: March 10, 1903 March 14, 1903 January 1, 1904 February 25, 1904 March 2, 1904 March 11, 1904 January 16, 1905 March 3, 1905 March 11, 1905 February 28, 1906 March 8, 1906 Shannon discussed the controversy about whether Ottawa should be considered the 1910 champions. Again that year, there were multiple winners: Ottawa Hockey Club -- January 7 Ottawa Hockey Club -- January 20 Montreal Wanderers -- March 9 Montreal Wanderers -- March 12

[@LJ.613]

When the Sens came back they were not an expansion franchise. The NHL reinstated them. So unlike Vancouver, in the NHLs eyes it is the same team

[@KevinWindsor1971]

When life gives you lemons, throw them at King Clancy.

[@brianjones7660]

Ballard. Harold Ballard. Fixed it for you.😠

[@TheWelta]

I don't understand how they are not considered the same club, like the Winnipeg Jets, this is purely a North American thing, can please someone explain this to me? Seems dumb to me

[@RicP23]

Look at like a company that ceased operations then someone else decades later starts a company in the same city with the same name as the original company. Same name not the same team. Also the original Winnipeg Jets are actually the Arizona Coyotes now. The current Jets actually have the history of the Atlanta Thrashers that's why the all time leader in goals for the current Jets is Ilya Kovalchuk despite him never playing for the Jets.

[@THE_bchat]

The original franchise moved to St Louis & then folded. It's a simple as that. There's no direct connection between the current franchise and the original one. Having the same team name is just a nod to the city's history, and not enough to treat the two clubs as being the same franchise. That would be like treating the Philadelphia Flyers as if they were a continuation of the Philadelphia Quakers.

[@answeris4217]

The current franchise first couple of seasons was right next to the Elephant Castle where the Original Senators played in. And the red black and white are the colours for most pro teams here... I mean throw a 67 on the front of that jersey and it's a junior team...CFL Red Blacks... even soccer has that colour scheme

[@clydeblair9622]

And since...?

[@nathanbulla1]

I think we all know at this point that Bear doesn’t like the Ottawa Senators

[@posty3613]

Kinda like Alabama and national championships. Some bogus ones if you go back and look

[@DAcheekO]

Quakers next? They were the best team of all time

[@TheBoyer19]

And pirates video would be interesting

[@Shadow12aven]

Livingstone should have bought the Eagles. Just for the laughs.

[@Peksisarvinen]

I wish they adopted that look again and changed the team name into something cooler. Senators just brings to mind a bunch of middle-aged men in powdered wigs, and that hideous bronze or whatever color that is in their current logo just ruins it all. Just remove all hints of yellow/bronze/diarrhea brown, change the logo to the one at the top left of the board, the jersey to the one in the vid and the name into something less dumb.

[@hharrybboy]

The vegas golden knights won the 2022/2023 Stanley Cup.