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The Challenge Cup era was when the Stanley Cup was awarded to league champions who would then keep it until another team ended their championship reign, or if another champion in another league issued a formal challenge and defeated them in a game or series of games, depending on what the two teams agreed to.ĭuring this era, the Senators were known as one of the nastiest and dirtiest teams in hockey for their constant use of slashing, cross-checking and tripping. (Today, the "Silver Seven" name is also the namesake of SB Nation's blog covering the modern Sens.) Over the next 30 years, the team played in several different amateur and professional leagues that are now long defunct, including the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, OHA, CAHL, FAHL, ECAHA, CHA and NHA.īetween the 19 seasons, now known as the "Silver Seven era", the Senators were an incredibly successful team, winning the Stanley Cup four times during the "Challenge Cup" era. Because there were no other teams to play against at the time, they were limited to practice for the first year of their existence.

The Ottawa Senators got their start as an amateur team whose history goes back as early as 1883, when a group of players started what was at the time the only organized team anywhere in Ontario. They were not only one of the original teams when the NHL began operations as we know them during the 1917-18 season they were also a powerhouse team for much of their existence and won multiple Stanley Cups. The Senators even played for the Stanley Cup during the 2006-07 season.īut long before the days of Daniel Alfredsson, Marian Hossa and Alexei Yashin, Ottawa had another NHL team that shared the same name. Their debut season was a complete disaster and would turn out to be one of the worst single-season performances in NHL history, but the team slowly built itself into a consistent playoff team for the better part of a decade in the late-'90s and mid-2000s. When the NHL expanded in the early 1990s, it sent the league into Canada's capital city, with the Ottawa Senators beginning play during the 1992-93 season.