Ottawa Senators Milestones

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How to play the Ottawa Senators history timeline

The modern Senators get a deck of their own here: every card is a franchise moment with a short line beneath its title, and they go in order of the year they happened. Your first card is placed for you with its year on show. After that, each card is yours to slot into a gap. Right gap, and its year is revealed. Wrong gap, and it lands where it really belongs anyway, costing you one of three lives.

Expansion-era Ottawa moves quickly from lean early seasons into a long stretch as a contender, then into rebuilds and a change at the top. Draft picks and blockbuster trades are everywhere, and a star coming in can look a lot like a star going out. The descriptions help you place the playoff runs, but the drafts are where most guesses go astray, because so many promising young players were picked in a short window.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 23 of the 23 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Franchise reborn The Senators name returned to the NHL as Ottawa iced an expansion team and drafted Alexei Yashin
Drafted Alexandre Daigle Ottawa used the first overall pick on the much-hyped, ultimately disappointing forward
Drafted Daniel Alfredsson The Senators grabbed a little-known late-round Swede who became a franchise cornerstone
Drafted Bryan Berard Ottawa took the defenceman first overall, though he would never suit up for them
New arena and a Calder The club opened a new suburban rink as Alfredsson won rookie of the year
First playoff berth Ottawa reached the postseason for the first time as a modern franchise
First playoff series win The Senators upset New Jersey to claim their first postseason round
First division title Ottawa finished atop its division for the first time
Traded Alexei Yashin A holdout ended when the Senators dealt him to the Islanders for Zdeno Chara and a pick that became Jason Spezza
Presidents' Trophy and a rescue Ottawa finished first overall and was pulled out of bankruptcy by new owner Eugene Melnyk
Acquired Dany Heatley The Senators landed the sniper from Atlanta in exchange for Marian Hossa
Reached the Stanley Cup Final The 'Pizza Line' powered Ottawa to its only modern Cup Final, against Anaheim
Drafted Erik Karlsson Ottawa selected the slick young Swedish defenceman
Drafted Mika Zibanejad The rebuilding Senators took the center sixth overall
Karlsson's first Norris The defenceman was named the league's best blue-liner for the first time
The Hamburglar's run Backup goalie Andrew Hammond sparked a late playoff charge as Karlsson won a second Norris
Retired Alfredsson's No. 11 Ottawa raised its franchise captain's number to the rafters
A double-overtime heartbreak The Senators came within one goal of the Cup Final, losing Game 7 to Pittsburgh
Traded Erik Karlsson Ottawa dealt its captain to San Jose to kick off a rebuild
A loaded draft class The Senators picked Tim Stutzle and Jake Sanderson in the same first round
Added Giroux and DeBrincat Ottawa acquired a young sniper and signed hometown veteran Claude Giroux
New ownership Michael Andlauer led a group that purchased the franchise after Melnyk's death
Back to the playoffs The Senators ended a long postseason drought and returned to the playoffs