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
I know it's hard for the Karlsson trade but look what we got from it, now Ottawa has two chances at the draft and good players, they did really good this year, so Ottawa senators have really bright future because of it, right
@@coreyhill681 Erik Karlsson still puts up tons of points, just not as many goals. He is still an other-worldly defenseman, but for what he is getting paid in SJ (where I live), that is a little much.
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!!!
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
Keith McKenna I have nothing against the sens.......well ok, I do a little. But u gotta be high if u thing the best atmosphere is in the Canadian tire centre
I know but in 25 years sadly ottawa has alot of work for a cup well see never know they could get on a huge run this season well see just focus on even making playoffs because they were the worst last season.
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
I blame the Lazar trade for losing MacArthur. In return for Lazar we got Seiloff, the fucking moron who crunched MacArthur into the board's during practice after a year of being on concussion protocol and effectively ended his career. Also I liked Lazar
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.
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
You might be the first Pens fan to feel bad for a win...I mean the win put them into the finals for the 2nd straight year...and you felt bad? You sir are not a true Pens fan
Ma Jo Ma Jr sure I am bud. So what if as a fan I felt a little guilty we got to the finals two years in a row but considering the Pens have done that in 91-92, 08-09 and 16-17, going to the finals back to back is what the Pens do. But I felt a little bad for the Sens, they were quite a story with Anderson’s wife’s cancer and Clark MacArthur’s return, plus Karlsson playing on a broken foot. Obviously I do not feel bad we won the Cup again.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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?
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!
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.
@@coreyhill681 I'm a sens fan, and IDK how I rubbed it in. Here is the 1 min clip where he says it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LL466nanSbQ.html anything else you want to add wise guy?
By away , you should not but down your own like that and be optimistic more, let’s wait until next year and see what happens forget about bad past and focus on the good things about Ottawa Senators, okay 👌
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
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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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
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
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.
