The Ottawa Senators have been a part of some of the greatest moments in hockey history:

- Initially formed in 1893, the Senators were one of the most dominant early teams in Canadian hockey

- The Ottawa Senators/Silver Seven won nine Stanley Cups prior to the formation of the NHL in 1917

- The team earned itself the name Silver Seven after winning the Stanley Cup in 1903 and the manager gave each player a piece of silver

- The greatest Senator of all, Frank One-eyed McGee, once scored 14 goals in a single game of the Stanley Cup finals

- Fred Cyclone Taylor was one of the earliest power forwards in the league

- Fifty-eight years after folding operations in 1934, the Senators made their triumphant return to the NHL

- A young Daniel Alfredsson was the first Senator to win the trophy for the NHL Rookie of the Year

- Marian Hossa scored the team record of 45 goals in the 2002-03 season

- With players like Dany Heatley, Jason Spezza and goaltender Ray Emery, the Senators are ready to set the league on fire and bring back the glory to the franchise.

Arpon Basu had said since the age of eight that he would one day make the National Hockey League. Any chance of that happening, came to a crashing halt when, at 15 when he realized he was completely devoid of any talent. He earned a graduate journalism degree from Concordia University and went straight to a sports-writing job with the Canadian Press. The first time he walked into the Montréal Canadiens dressing room as a giddy cub reporter, Basu nearly fell over as it dawned on him that, despite his ineptitude on the ice, he had in fact been telling the truth as a dreamy-eyed eight-year-old.Basu covers sports for the Canadian Press in Montréal and writes a weekly sports column for the Montréal Gazette. He is also editor of Montréal’s South Shore, The St-Lambert Journal.

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