You've Been Traded to Ottawa

This is an old, but hysterical, article:

"Another former Senators goalie, Don Beaupre, once summed up playing for Ottawa by saying, "Hockey isn't fun anymore." It's no wonder that in an interview last January, shortly after current Senators net-minder Damian Rhodes learned he had been traded to Ottawa from the Toronto Maple Leafs, he broke down and wept."

almost 3 years ago Chemmy 39 comments 7 recs |

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ah-hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

by Karina on Mar 18, 2009 11:37 AM EDT reply actions

So many good quotes it’s unbelievable:

At the Senators’ first rookie camp Larry Skinner, a 36-year-old Ottawa Sun circulation manager and freelance writer, showed up to do a story about the fledgling Senators. He was invited to skate with the players one day, and again the next day, and it quickly became clear that he was one of the better performers on the ice. He finished the rookie camp as one of Ottawa’s leading scorers before he went back to the newspaper business.

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by Chemmy on Mar 18, 2009 11:39 AM EDT reply actions

wow

maybe the Leafs should try that for next year….

by Karina on Mar 18, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions

So you’re saying I still have a chance at an NHL career?

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by Doogie2K on Mar 18, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m want to print that article, frame it, and post it on my office door. Reading that, totally made my day.

I must be pregnant as I've missed two periods.

by Kerry Fraser on Mar 19, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Welcome

Thanks for joining. I don’t know about that username though…

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by PPP on Mar 19, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Hahahahahahaha love the user name.

Thanks for joining.

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by Chemmy on Mar 19, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks for the welcome.

Any hostility towards Fraser is expected and warranted.

I must be pregnant as I've missed two periods.

by Kerry Fraser on Mar 19, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Like most expansion teams, Ottawa had a small budget; the Senators’ $6 million payroll for 1992-93 roughly equaled what the Penguins paid star Mario Lemieux that season. But to make matters worse, during Sexton’s tenure Ottawa’s financial priorities were out of order. The Senators’ mascot, Spartacat, made nearly $100,000 and had a company car.

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by Chemmy on Mar 18, 2009 11:40 AM EDT reply actions

Spartacat that first year was actually a young Bryan Murray.

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by PPP on Mar 18, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

Spartacat – CRAPPIEST THUNDERCAT EVER.

You've had all your word nourishment for one day.

by Mattblack on Mar 18, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

Me-owwwww!
/Don Cherry’d

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by PPP on Mar 18, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

You’re doing the limp wrist again, what are we going to do? Snarf!

/Snarf’d

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by bkblades on Mar 18, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions

spartacat had a hissy fit too!

Even the high-priced mascot has embarrassed the franchise. In 1993 Spartacat was canned. In a fit of pique Spartacat swiped the company car and fled across the border to the U.S. The car was eventually found in New Jersey and returned to Ottawa with only a few dents.

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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 18, 2009 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions

I like to point out, this has been the second Don Beaupre reference in one day. That might be a record.

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by bkblades on Mar 18, 2009 11:56 AM EDT reply actions

That gives Don Beaupre a new record for number of records held with one.

Previous record: 0

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by PPP on Mar 18, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions

best article ever.
Rec’d

by PeterZezel on Mar 18, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions

gold

“The perpetrators missed out on some classic blooper footage, such as the clip of Ottawa scoring a goal in the waning seconds to tie a game against the Boston Bruins. Unfortunately for the Senators, they had eight players on the ice at the time, two more than is legal. Not only was the goal disallowed, but Ottawa was also assessed a penalty.”

by daoust on Mar 18, 2009 12:17 PM EDT reply actions

There’s a guy in my hockey pool who named his team after this incident.

I was living in Ottawa that year and I can still remember the play by play guys looking at the tape and counting up to 8. Good old Rick Bowness.

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by mf37 on Mar 18, 2009 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions

and more gold...

“Defenseman Bryan Berard, the No. 1 selection in the ’95 draft, forced a trade, to the Islanders, after vowing that he would never play on a team as sorry as Ottawa.”

by daoust on Mar 18, 2009 12:20 PM EDT reply actions

hahahaha going to the island to get out of a sorry franchise, amazing.

by Johnny Thunder on Mar 18, 2009 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow, that’s the sort of insult teams don’t forget. I bet the Senators will be keeping an eye out for him.

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by Down Goes Brown on Mar 19, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions

ooooh that was low…..

by Karina on Mar 19, 2009 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions

The right coach

“Then there was the night on the road in April, against the Islanders, when coach Rick Bowness shook up the lineup of the Senators, who were mired in their record-setting away winless streak, a skein that had earned them the nickname Road Kill. Though Bowness planned to start some new faces, he absentmindedly handed in his usual lineup to the officials before the game. When Bowness’s revised starting six took the ice, the Senators were assessed a two-minute penalty for illegal substitution at the first stoppage in play.”

So THAT’S what Milbury saw in him! I was laughing at the article the whole way through until they got to Bowness. Then I got really sad.

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by Dominik on Mar 18, 2009 12:35 PM EDT reply actions