Team : Hockey
Stanley Cup Champions
Year Inducted : Legacy

The Ottawa Senators’ first Stanley Cup victory came in 1920. It was the start of a dynasty run for another Ottawa hockey club. The Senators won four Stanley Cups in the 1920s and placed first in the regular season seven times before the franchise collapsed because of financial trouble in 1927, after winning its final Stanley Cup in its final season.

Led by goalkeeper Clint Benedict and then Alex Connell and forwards Frank Nighbor, Cy Denneny and Jack Darragh, the Senators were the class of the relatively new National Hockey League.

By winning both halves of the 1919-20 regular season, the Senators were declared the NHL champions. They played the Seattle Metropolitans, the Pacific Coast Hockey League champions, and won two of the first three games at home on watery ice. The best-of-five final was moved to an artificial ice surface in Toronto, where Seattle evened the series with a 5-2 win. But Ottawa rebounded, receiving a three-goal game from Darragh and seized the cup with a 6-1 win.

After winning the NHL title in 1921 with a 7-0 two-game, total-goal victory over Toronto, the Senators headed to Vancouver. An average crowd of more than 10,000 a game saw the Senators edge the Millionaires in five one-goal games — 1-2, 4-3, 3-2, 2-3 and 2-1. (Vancouver defeated Ottawa in three straight games to win the 1915 Stanley Cup.)

By overcoming the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 for the NHL title in 1923, the Senators returned to Vancouver to experience a new playoff format — semifinals and a final. The Senators moved past the Vancouver Maroons 1-0, 1-4, 3-2 and 4-1 in the semis and advanced to meet the Edmonton Eskimos. In the best-of-three final, the Senators survived two one-goal games to down Edmonton 2-1 and 1-0.

In 1926-27, the Senators won the Canadian Division title of the newly aligned NHL and defeated Montreal in the semifinals. For the first time, two NHL teams — Ottawa and Boston — played against each other to determine the Stanley Cup winner. Ottawa didn’t lose a game as it recorded two wins and two ties — 0-0, 3-1, 1-1 and 3-1 — to win the Senators’ franchise final Stanley Cup.