Historian Paul Kitchen walks you though the former homes of Ottawa’s team.
Patrick Lalime is home. Oh sure, his actual hometown is Drummondville, Que., but after guarding the goal for the Senators for four-and-a-half seasons, Ottawa earned a special place in his heart.
“Doctors told me I should watch Leafs games to avoid excitement.”
Daniel Alfredsson can’t help but wonder where the time has gone. When the Ottawa Senators’ all-time leader in games played, goals, assists, points and community relations — he’s the poster boy for just about everything good about the franchise since the mid-1990s — went to training camp with the team last month, he found himself on a line with 18-year-old prospect Mika Zibanejad.
What ever happened to Daniel Berthiaume, Bob Kudelski, Darcy Loewen and others? Click here to find out.
To learn something about the emergence of hockey in Ottawa in the early 1900s, it’s instructive to look at a 1901 photographic montage of the Ottawa Hockey Club.
Alternate captain Sylvain Turgeon remembers opening night, Oct. 8, 1992 (as told to Allen Panzeri): “It was like flying on top of a cloud. “It was the loudest crowd I had ever heard and you could see smiles on the faces of everyone, just happy to have hockey back. “So it was energizing. But for [...]