100 Things Senators Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things Sports Fans Should Know...) - Softcover

Stevenson, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629373664 ISBN 13: 9781629373669

Verlag: TRIUMPH BOOKS, 2018

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Most Ottawa Senators fans have attended a game at the Canadian Tire Centre, seen highlights of a young Daniel Alfredsson, and remember exactly where they were when the team reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2007. But only real fans know all the components of the trade which landed Jason Spezza or how to get a seat at Sens Mile. 100 Things Senators Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of Ottawa hockey. Whether you're a longtime member of the Sens Army or a new supporter of Erik Karlsson, this book contains everything Senators fans should know, see, and do in their lifetime.

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Chris Stevenson covers the Ottawa Senators for The Athletic, and appears on the team's pre- and post-game shows on TSN 1200. He previously covered the Senators for NHL.com and the Ottawa Sun. This is his first book.

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100 Things Senators Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By Chris Stevenson

Triumph Books LLC

Copyright © 2018 Chris Stevenson
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-62937-366-9

Contents

1. Bring Back the Senators, 
2. Ottawa and Tampa, 
3. Maybe Rome Was Built in a Day, 
4. By the Book, 
5. Thank the Smartest Guy in the Room, 
6. The House That Rod Built, 
7. 7-for-11, 
8. The Best Goal in Senators History, 
9. Opening Night Part II, 
10. A Star-Studded Weekend, 
11. Alfie's Night, 
12. Senators and Habs Take It Outside, 
13. Stop and Gaze upon the Mighty Carp River, 
14. A Valley Boy Comes Home, 
15. A Sour Note: Paul Anka and the Senators, 
16. The Ghost, 
17. Bloody Domi, 
18. The Bald Wayne Gretzky, 
19. Wing It in Buffalo, 
20. Ottawa Apologizes, 
21. The Brawl on Broad Street, 
22. The First Star, 
23. Lace 'Em Up on the Rideau Canal, 
24. The View from the Alfredsson Deck, 
25. The Joker, 
26. A Beautiful Night, 
27. Worst Senators Trade Ever, 
28. We Have a Trade to Announce, 
29. Bryan's Battle, 
30. The Hamburglar, 
31. A Game Puck for Nicholle, 
32. The Franchise Kid, 
33. Pucks, Poutine, and Party, 
34. Tanks for Nothing, 
35. Is There Anything Better Than a Good Goaltending Fight?, 
36. That Time Darcy Tucker Could Have Been a Senator, 
37. Bankrupt, 
38. Marshall Law, 
39. Bosch's World, 
40. Shake It Off, 
41. A Cruel End, 
42. The White Whale, 
43. A Bus, Barbed Wire, and Bones, 
44. Four Goals for No. 44, 
45. Have a Pint at the Big Rig, 
46. The Lion Is Born: The Bizarre Story, 
47. Roger, 
48. To Lift or Not to Lift, 
49. A Long Way from Gothenburg, 
50. The Perfect Senator, 
51. Wonder Y, 
52. "So You're an Expert", 
53. Buddha Power, 
54. Siri-ously, 
55. A Legend Steps Down, 
56. Turn Back the Clock at the Cattle Castle, 
57. "We're Gonna Kill 'Em", 
58. Full Circle, 
59. Forsberg, 
60. Fergy, 
61. Hit Hogtown, 
62. Watch Your Step, 
63. Player 61, 
64. Sparky, 
65. Tuckered Out, 
66. And a Sixth-Round Pick ..., 
67. Rate the GMs, 
68. "It's Alexei Yashin!", 
69. The White Monster, 
70. A Last Game of Keep-Away, 
71. Hit the Road, 
72. The Captains, 
73. Crazy Night in Buffalo, 
74. Dean and Gord Part I, 
75. Dean and Gord Part II, 
76. Go Back to 1927, 
77. No Pun Intended, 
78. One for the Rhodes, 
79. Tugger, 
80. Smitty, 
81. "Maybe Friday", 
82. The Game Changer, 
83. "Stop Looking at the Clock", 
84. "Crooks with Taste", 
85. Hoss and the Heater, 
86. Du-Du-Du-Du-Duchesne, 
87. Redden, 
88. A Gift of Life, 
89. Three $2,000 Pies, 
90. Grizz, 
91. The Shawville Express, 
92. Paging Dr. Chow, 
93. He Said What?, 
94. Marshy's Big Night, 
95. Visit Lord Stanley's Gift, 
96. Ryan's Dog Days, 
97. Get to Know T.P. Gorman, 
98. That Time Chris Kelly Saved Alfie's Career, 
99. One Last Great Night, 
100. On Top of the Hill, 

CHAPTER 1

Bring Back the Senators

Colonel E.R. Bradley was a self-described "speculator, raiser of race horses and gambler," so it was fitting that the saloon in West Palm Beach, Florida, that bore his name was where the supporters of the Bring Back the Senators campaign gathered on a sultry night — December 5, 1990.

Gamblers is a fitting word to describe the men behind the bid to bring NHL hockey back to Ottawa: Terrace Investments Inc.'s president, Bruce Firestone, a brash 39-year-old entrepreneur; vice president, Randy Sexton; and COO, Cyril Leeder.

Firestone had come up with the idea to bid for an NHL expansion franchise over a dressing room beer with Sexton and Leeder after a pickup game of hockey at the old Lions Arena in Westboro. "He said to us, `I think the NHL is going to expand,' and we took another swig of beer and said, `Okay, Bruce,'" Sexton told me a few years ago. He continued, "Then he said, `And I think Ottawa would support a team,' and we nodded and said, `Okay, Bruce.' And then he said, `I think we're the guys to do it,' and we spit our beer out on the floor."

Going into stealth mode, Terrace Investments quietly went about assembling the land they needed for a rink. They announced their plans to Bring Back the Senators in a fax (I still have it) to newsrooms in Ottawa on a June day in 1989. The reaction was: "Who?"

So there we were on that night in Florida, in a saloon, on the 542 day after the Terrace bid, with excitement and anticipation high. The Terrace group had made their presentation earlier that day, spending 63 minutes in front of the NHL's board of governors at the posh and stuffy Breakers resort in Palm Beach. They had presented their case for why Ottawa should be chosen from the remaining field of seven candidate cities to be awarded an NHL expansion franchise to begin play in 1992–93.

Most people were still overwhelmingly skeptical about whether NHL hockey would return to Ottawa following a 58year absence after the original Ottawa Senators, pummeled by the Great Depression, had picked up and left for St. Louis. There remained legitimate questions about whether Terrace had the $50 million franchise fee and the wherewithal to build a state-of-the-art arena, to be called the Palladium. At that point the rink was nothing but 100 acres of cornfield in the city's West End that was, at that moment, getting dumped on in the winter's first major snowfall. Who knew if the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) would even allow the land to be rezoned to allow the building of a rink?

Nobody was even sure the NHL governors would get the answers they wanted from the bidders and award any franchises. "I have a lot of experience dealing with the board of governors," Cliff Fletcher of the Calgary Flames told me on the eve of the meetings. "When they meet, it's not like dealing with the board of directors of a big corporation. It's more like the meeting of an oil cartel. Everyone has his own distinct and separate associations and, quite frankly, everyone has his own particular ox to gore."

There were twists and turns in the hours before the presentations. The morning of the presentations it was announced the OMB had shuffled its schedule to allow for a quick hearing into the zoning for the Palladium, to be built in the West End community of Kanata. The average wait was 16 months. The Terrace request was fast-tracked to March. That was good news.

The Tampa bid, fronted by Hall of Famer Phil Esposito and backed by Japanese investors, was dealt a blow when it was announced Hillsborough County commissioners voted 5 — 2 against spending $30 million of public funds on a $96 million rink for Tampa. "I don't know what to say," said Esposito, for the first time in his life.

Houston had withdrawn the week before, and Seattle bowed out just before the board of governors was to meet. That left Hamilton, Miami, Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, San Diego, and Anaheim in the mix. They made their presentations throughout that day.

The Terrace boys were confident. They had painstakingly worked the room. They had produced an impressive leather-bound bid book. They knew the names of every governor's wife, girlfriend, and child. Birthday cards were hand-delivered. The paying of respects had been done in trips across North America. They had a theme song — Tom...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TRIUMPH BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629373664
• ISBN 13: 9781629373669
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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