Ottawa Senators 2016-2017 *Incredible* NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Run! (All Games) 

Im a penguins fan and I just want to say that was an incredible season I did not expect that much out of Ottawa and you guys should have nothing but pride

Karlsson was playing on one ankle and he still chalked up 20 points in the post-season. We should've never lost him.

Man I miss this.... 2 years now without playoffs is to much. Get Better quicker please MELNYKOUT

I'm a lightning fan and I love Ottawa. Best fans in the league and best atmosphere of a game to go watch. I really hope you guys win that cup in the next few years, if any Canadian team deserves to win a cup it's you guys. #GoSensGo

i hate the feeling of emptiness when the season ends... i still feel it... we were so close it hurts more knowing that only one goal was the matter BUT i'm so proud of this team, no one ever thought they will reach so high and they did. i'm thankful and extremely proud to be part of this road :') next year will be even better, so GO SENS GO!!!

Have to come back and watch this after what's just happened as I don't think I'll see a run like this for a while. So hard to believe it was only 2 years ago.. Now sitting bottom of the league in major rebuild mode. Whatever will always be United in red at heart #OttawaRising

Pens fan here, looking at this 2 years later - in retrospect we stole your Stanley Cup, and I’m sorry about that. The Sens would have beat the Preds handily, prob in 6. Unfortunately, injuries to Karlsson and Brass made an impact and Ottawa had nothing left in the tank in the overtime periods of game 7. They fought admirably in their final stand but the Pens just seemed hungrier for the winning goal and we got it (I do think the better team won but it literally could’ve gone either way.) Prob the only series I can think of in my 20 + years of being a Pens fan that I actually felt bad for being on the winning side. Now my 2nd favorite team, The Blues, have claimed Lord Stanley and I feel even more spoiled. It saddens me that this Sens team was ripped apart by moronic ownership but there is a lot of great young talent in the pipeline and the Senators will be back

U should change the title to “impossible try not to cry challenge”. I miss that sens team so much

The karlsson pass tho that was amazing

That is an awesome video. Just wish we had that team still... the lost of Methot, McArthur and Turris is hurting..

As a senators fan I had a feeling i've never had when the penguins scored that game 7 OT goal. Normally I would feel some combination of anger hatred and despair. But this time I felt acceptance almost immediately. I walked away feeling that the run that year was worth more than a Cup. Ya I would love for the sens to win a cup. But the journey and these memories are just as incredible.

I would watch this, except im a rangers fan and im still not over it, congrats guys, better team when it mattered in our series, unreal run

Every time I hear bad news about the sens, it makes me miss the 2017 team even more.

I remember after that second overtime just sitting there for like ten minutes before just straight up going to bed

MY 2017 PLAYOFF STORY Going in, I thought "I hope they somehow manage to upset the Bruins so they can play the Habs in round 2". I was helping out with some job training during that series, and spent 10 days binge-watching round 1 from my hotel room in Montreal. All I was hoping for was the chance to be a Sens fan buried deep in enemy territory, as I fondly remembered being in 2013. By the end of the first round, I forgot that the Canadiens even existed. The intensity of that series against the Bruins was just incredible - I injured myself twice following OT victory celebrations. To me, it exemplified precisely what life is like as a Sens fan: being annoyed by sloppy play, being stunned in awe by explosive highlight reel goals, dreading late-game leads while expecting late-game comebacks. Even to a seasoned fan like me, who's been around their entire lifetime, heart failure remains a serious risk... Every series started the same (fearing the worst against heavily-favored opponents, hoping for a string of miracles) and each winning series ended the same (breathing a huge sigh of a relief, shaking my head in amazement). For me, the loss against the Penguins was way more heartbreaking than losing in the finals in 2007. Unlike ten years prior, the second-last opponent was, in my opinion, the toughest one in the entire lineup - far tougher than the Ducks or Preds. In my head, beating the Penguins meant winning the cup. Given the modest hopes I started out with, seeing Game 7 in the ECF go to overtime was a huge accomplishment in itself. I had a sick feeling that the hockey gods wouldn't let us get the necessary bounce. They didn't...those bastards! When Kunitz ended the series with what I felt was one of the weakest scoring chances in the whole game, my heart sank in a way I couldn't hide. I was working during that game, patrolling the floor in a poker room, and the game was being shown on big-screen TVs plastered every five feet along the walls. When upper management saw my reaction to the goal, they immediately replaced me and gave me a 2-hour "dinner break" to mourn the loss of my team's playoff hopes. When I got to the bar, there was a Corona waiting for me - ordered for me secretly by another manager. This run will be one I remember fondly, and your video drew tears from me in several spots. Most of the pain has faded now, and even by the time the finals started, I found myself rooting for Pittsburgh to finish with a repeat. The fact that the Sens even got through the first round is something I'm proud of them for doing. But to also get past NYR and then push the defending champs to the brink of elimination is a fantastic result. Despite my 26-year unshakable love for the Senators, my love for hockey is greater. These playoffs saw some unbelievable displays of skill, and that's what matters more. I'll never forget those ten days in the hotel during round one, following eight series simultaneously between tidal waves of bong hits, beers, hockey-loving visitors, and ready-made food plates.

Hi Sens Fan, looking at this 3 years later, I was crying when I watched the goal by the pens in game 7

I watched this knowing Id cry again, why

AH the good old days

Good run, from a nucks fan. One day the cup with be won on our soil! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

I got into hockey thanks to my late step dad (he was from Vancouver so you can guess his team) and for no reason other than liking the game I saw, I chose the Sens as my team. So very happy at that decision and I'm sad to have missed out on this run, but at least I can watch it here until the next one!

I'm a pens fan, and that was my first year of watching a full playoff run. Now that I look back, I feel bad that we ended your team. Little did we know that your team would become a disaster because of that game. Much respect to the senatorsand the fans 🙂

It's over 23 minutes into the video and besides Ryan, all the goals have been scored by players who've been traded/ retired. So, that's devestating as a Sens fan.... some of my favourite players gone like Stone, Turris and our Gatineau boy Pageau. Looking forward hopefully to the future. This was a magical run.

What an honour it was to be a sens fan during this period. Thanks for making this video:) I’m excited for our future as of 2022 with the new sens era. But I can’t help but reminisce the good old days

Amazing run. I had so much fun.

Man, that run was magical. The double OT goal by the Pens was such a deflating goal. The memories are awesome, though. Everyone on that Sens team really gelled together. I don't think they had any business going as far as they did, but sometimes teams just work together and power through, which is what Ottawa did. Had they reached the Finals, I'm sure they had the odds of taking that Cup home.

Canucks fan... I wanted the Sens to go all the way. This team battled hard & who doesn't love Karlson. The guys amazing! My favourite player.

Watching this to remind me of the good times. #MELNYKOUT

watching this 3 years after that run.. man i still get goosebumps watching pageau score 4 goals..!

As a sens fan watching Kunitz double ot goal makes me shed a tear. btw amazing tribute

Still 3 years later i watch this video once a month and pray this will happen again...😢

Wow the memories... I was cheering for Ottawa to go all the way when my Caps lost

That Eastern Conference final was probably some of the best hockey i'd seen in many years.

WOW! great video man. I wish i didn't watch the end. Still hurts. GO SENS GO.

Have faith Sens fans. 2020-2021 Season will be a comeback year. Who's all looking forward to this years draft?? :)

LOVE THE SENS! CAN'T WAIT!!

Wonderful and heart-wrenching. Still hard to watch that last goal a year later.

thanks for this video!

I’m a ball player from ottawa never watched hockey accept from this playoff runs year and I’d never been so proud of anything ottawa’s done since this year this was like multi year comeback

The good old days😭

So sad our season had to come to a end. I’m very thankful for how far we made it though. My first ever playoff game I went to was front row, the game Pageau scored four goals. People were cheering his name in the halls. That day was unforgettable. I love my sens!

Ottawa had all but perfected the stretch pass here, Anderson was a super hero, and Karlson did Karlson things. The team was absolutely insane to let guys like Stone and Pageau go. The only logical conclusion is intentional sabotage by the owner.

still watching this in 2023

Amazing! 4 years on.. wish the outcome was different. Solid team.. solid performance. Sens deserved better. The team, the midnight airport runs, the street partying.. what a time!

thanks for this video

Now we’re down Turris, Methot, Brassard, maybe karlsson and stone, things changed a lot the past year

Great video. Well put together... Just wish I could change the end

This is the last time you see a run like this for a long time with the senators. They just had the perfect drafts and had the best chemistry going into the 2016-17 year. Sad to see it ripped away.

love this team so much

as a hawks fan after we got swept that year i was rooting so hard for the senators just such a fun exciting team every game and series was so close and climatic too bad for sid would’ve loved to see a canadian team pull it off

Even to this day, I still don't know why Ottawa had to blow the roster up after losing to Pittsburgh. Weren't we already in the middle of a rebuild or at least, on the rise?

So much memory!! I just hope i will see something like this this year ! GO SENS GO !!!

Ottawa is my favourite team

Great season! Although Pittsburg beat Ottawa, I have to go for them, since Karlsson told Crosby to get another one

5:18 - 5:23 = the dirtiest 5 seconds of hockey in modern history.

hell of a run, lucky to be at 2 of those games in Ottawa. Rnd 1 gm 2 / Ecf gm 3. lets go sens

It may sound silly but I respect this Ottawa team as a Penguins fan I'm grateful as the preds finished their series against the ducks early Pens had to dig deepest to beat this fantastic special team respect to the Sens

The good old days. If any Canadian team out of the 7 deserves to win the cup, it’s Ottawa. I mean, the Stanley Cup was BORN in Ottawa, so it will be amazing to see the Stanley Cup come down the roads of it’s birthplace for the first time in almost 94 years.

Bobby Ryan looked great, wow!

The Sens will always be that underdog team. When nobody expects them to be good they do this.

Can’t wait to get back in the playoffs to get those vibes back

Anderson took years off my life every time he played the puck these playoffs

What a run.

ottawa is my favorite team i really wanna see them in the play offs again they had a decent season this year

Four years later and that first round lost against the senators still hurts for a couple reasons one we couldn’t win at home and two and felt like we were never there thank god the pens beat them in the conference finals

W miss this

This makes me so sad I already miss karlsson

It was nice to see Ryan show up in the playoffs. Now if he can only do that during a season

RIP Bryan Murray. At least he led them in the finals.

Hands down best year for the sens

amazing

miss all the great sens players

How did this team go from the Conference Final, to the laughingstock of the league?

What a play 3.30

I miss old Ottawa

This was the closest ever Ottawa has come to a modern day Stanley Cup!!! If we had beaten Pittsburgh I was confident we would have dusted off Nashville. Considering we took Pittsburgh to game 7 DOUBLE OVERTIME and Pittsburgh went on to sweep Nashville 4-0!

That game seven second ot hurt. Sooo so close to finals

I was at the game where Pageau scored 4 goals. I think I flew a foot off the ground when he tied it. Fast forward to 18:49 to hear Sens fans yell probably the loudest they have ever yelled. You could feel it!

What a play 5.00

Feel like Melynek was the reason this team went to shambles after Pittsburgh beat them. No trades needed to happen but it happened anyways. Now that hes gone Dorion making moves to make sure they make the playoffs and possibly win

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#bringbackerikkarlsson

So close..... so sad : (

This team was pretty damn good

4:58 what a goal

I use to be Ottawa sens fan but I’m Edmonton oilers fan now

31:40 , any pewee player could already tell that zack smith was probably going to attempt the wrap around, I'm surprised no one decided to cover the post

4 years later and there is pretty much none of the same players on the team anymore. They are still a pretty decent team don’t get me wrong but they don’t even compare to this 2016-2017 team.

They played like a 60 win team the entire playoffs. My Bruins couldn't stop them, nor could the Rangers, the Penguins almost lost the series, and if the Sens made it to the Finals, Ducks or Preds, Ottawa would of killed them.

I’m still crying

Can you do 2006 , 2007 playoffs

We had a really special team 🙁

I feel like that was Ottawa’s cup but the penguins played better in that one part.

GO SENS GO

Wow then 6 years later guy bouche is leafs assist coach

Also they were way behind in points then Hammond came with like 15 games left in the season and we came back. Unless I’m thinking of a different season

Ottawa senators had a.freat year and m team who played great tighter

Life was better then. Flyers fan

Let’s go pens

Man this still hurts. At 39:07, history could have been a lot different had Stalberg gotten good wood on that cross ice pass. He could have had a breakaway and ended it. I think about that moment way too much.

Love the video hate the pens