Ottawa Senators Trivia
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49 free Ottawa Senators trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Ottawa Senators trivia quiz covers both franchises to carry the name: the original Silver Seven and Super Six who won 11 Stanley Cups before decamping to St. Louis in 1934, and Bruce Firestone's 'Bring Back the Senators' campaign that landed an expansion team in 1990. It runs through the 10-70-4 first season, Alexandre Daigle, Alexei Yashin's holdouts, Daniel Alfredsson's sixth-round Calder Trophy, Jacques Martin's playoff runs and the Battle of Ontario, the 2003 bankruptcy and Presidents' Trophy, Eugene Melnyk, the CASH line and the 2007 Final, the Hamburglar's 20-1-2, Erik Karlsson's Norris Trophies and trade, Brady Tkachuk, Michael Andlauer and the return to the playoffs in 2025. The arena, logo and culture get their own round: the Palladium in Kanata and its many names, the Roman centurion crest, Spartacat, the Sens Mile and the NHL 100 Classic outdoors. Easy questions suit any Sens fan; the hard ones are for people who remember Dave Allison's 2-22-3. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01By which nickname is the Ottawa team that held the Stanley Cup from 1903 to 1906 remembered?
Silver Seven
Silver Seven. In 1905 they saw off challengers who had travelled from Dawson City in the Yukon by dog sled, ship and train, with one-eyed Frank McGee scoring 14 goals in one game.
Q 02The original Ottawa Senators moved in 1934 to become which short-lived NHL team?
St. Louis Eagles
St. Louis Eagles. The move lasted one season: the long trips to play eastern rivals deepened the losses, and the NHL bought the franchise back and dispersed its players.
Q 03Which Ottawa real estate developer led the campaign that won the modern Senators franchise in 1990?
Bruce Firestone
Bruce Firestone. His firm could not afford a team, so the plan was to buy farmland in Kanata, win the franchise and let the new arena multiply the value of the land around it.
Q 04Under which slogan did Ottawa's bidders campaign for an NHL expansion franchise in 1989 and 1990?
Bring Back the Senators
Bring Back the Senators. Some 11,000 fans mailed in $25 pledges toward season tickets, even as the head of the players' union scoffed that Ottawa would not get a team this century.
Q 05The Senators won their first game, on October 8, 1992, 5-3 over which team?
Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens. The expansion team beat the club that would lift the Stanley Cup that spring, then managed only nine more wins all season.
Q 06Which 1974–75 team's NHL-worst season did the 1992–93 Senators beat by three points?
Capitals
Washington Capitals, who managed eight wins and 21 points. Ottawa's 24 only tied for last in 1992–93, but that was enough to earn the first pick in the 1993 draft.
Q 07Which Ottawa-born singer was a partner in the modern Senators' first ownership group?
Paul Anka
Paul Anka. He joined local high-tech executives in the limited partnership that was set up to own the new team and build its arena.
Q 08The Senators' 1993 first overall pick, one of the NHL's great draft busts, was which centre?
Alexandre Daigle
Alexandre Daigle. On draft day he said he was glad to go first because no one remembers number two; number two was Chris Pronger, a future Hall of Famer.
Q 09Which defenceman played one more Senators game than Daniel Alfredsson?
Chris Phillips
Chris Phillips. He passed Alfredsson's total in February 2015 by playing his 1,179th game, and a back injury meant that the record-breaker was also the last game of his career.
Q 10Which defence-first coach got the Senators to the playoffs every season from 1997 to 2004?
Jacques Martin
Jacques Martin. Eight straight playoff trips were not enough: he was fired in 2004 after a fourth series loss to Toronto in five years.
Q 11The Senators' 2001 trade of their holdout centre to the Islanders brought Zdeno Chara and the pick used on whom?
Jason Spezza
Jason Spezza. Taken second overall, he became Ottawa's No. 2 all-time scorer and its captain, and the defenceman who arrived in the same trade grew into a Hall of Famer.
Q 12Which trophy did the Senators win in 2002–03, a season they played under bankruptcy protection?
Presidents' Trophy
Presidents' Trophy, for the NHL's best regular-season record. Kept going by emergency financing, the club then came within one win of the Stanley Cup Final.
Q 13Which pharmaceutical billionaire bought the Senators in 2003 and owned them until his death in 2022?
Eugene Melnyk
Q 21The Senators traded their captain, a two-time Norris Trophy winner, to which team in 2018?
San Jose Sharks
San Jose Sharks. One of the draft picks that came back became third overall choice Tim Stützle, while the defenceman won a third Norris in San Jose in 2023.
Q 22The Senators came within one win of the 2017 Stanley Cup Final, losing Game 7 in double overtime to which team?
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh Penguins. Chris Kunitz scored twice in Game 7, the second in double overtime, and Pittsburgh went on to win a second straight Stanley Cup.
Q 23What was the Senators' outdoor game against Montreal at Lansdowne Park in December 2017 called?
NHL 100 Classic
Eugene Melnyk. The Biovail founder kept the club in Ottawa for 19 years, though after he mused about moving it in 2017 fans ran a campaign called #MelnykOut.
Q 14Which winger skated with Daniel Alfredsson on the Senators' famed 'CASH' line?
Dany Heatley
Dany Heatley. He scored 50 goals in each of his first two Ottawa seasons, a club first, then demanded a trade one year into a six-year contract extension.
Q 15The Senators lost the 2007 Stanley Cup Final in five games to which team?
Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim Ducks. Ottawa had won all three of its earlier series in five games, then lost the city's first Stanley Cup Final in 80 years in five itself.
Q 16The section of downtown Ottawa closed to traffic for fans during the 2007 Stanley Cup Final was dubbed what?
Sens Mile
Sens Mile. It began as a fan campaign on Facebook, and after one playoff win thousands poured onto Elgin Street for an impromptu party, before the city agreed to close it for each game.
Q 17Which goaltender carried Ottawa to the 2007 Stanley Cup Final and was bought out by the club a year later?
Ray Emery
Ray Emery. He began 2006–07 as the backup and had won the job by November, but lateness to practices and off-ice incidents led the club to buy him out in June 2008.
Q 18Which fan favourite's 2011 trade led an Ottawa radio station to ban his wife's songs?
Mike Fisher
Mike Fisher. His wife is country star Carrie Underwood, and he later revealed that his general manager chose Nashville's offer so that the couple could live in the same city.
Q 19Which coach won the 2013 Jack Adams Award after guiding an injury-riddled Senators team to the playoffs?
Paul MacLean
Paul MacLean. In that spring's playoffs a Montreal forward dismissed him as a "bug-eyed, fat walrus"; MacLean's team answered by winning the series in five games.
Q 20Which Ottawa-born Senator scored four goals, including the double-overtime winner, in a 2017 playoff game against the Rangers?
Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Jean-Gabriel Pageau. Ottawa trailed 5–3 late in the third period before his hat-trick goal tied the game with 62 seconds left, and his fourth won it in double overtime.
NHL 100 Classic. It marked 100 years since the two cities met on the league's first night, and Ottawa won 3–0, though its owner soured the party by musing about moving the team.
Q 24Rather than send Colorado their 2018 first-round pick, the Senators drafted whom?
Brady Tkachuk
Brady Tkachuk. Taken fourth overall, he captained Ottawa for five seasons before being traded in 2026 to Florida, where his brother Matthew was already playing.
Q 25Which Toronto businessman and Canadiens part-owner led the group that bought the Senators in 2023?
Michael Andlauer
Michael Andlauer. He gave up his minority stake in Montreal to do it, and the late owner's two daughters kept a share of the club as his partners.
Q 26Which coach ended the Senators' eight-year playoff drought in 2025?
Travis Green
Travis Green. In his first season behind the bench Ottawa won 45 games and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2017, only to draw Toronto in the opening round.
Q 27The Senators' arena in Kanata opened in January 1996 under what name?
The Palladium
The Palladium. The name lasted about a month: Bryan Adams opened the building with a concert in mid-January, and by mid-February a software firm had bought the naming rights.
Q 28The Senators' logo depicts the head of what?
A Roman general
A Roman general. The reference is to the Senate of ancient Rome, not the one on Parliament Hill, and the designer of the 1991 original described the figure as a centurion.
Q 29What is the Senators' mascot called?
Spartacat
Spartacat. He has worked the crowd since the club's very first home game in 1992, and his official profile lists "Raking Leafs" among his hobbies.
Q 30The Senators' 1991 shoulder crest carried Roman numerals for 1894, believed at the time to mark what?
The founding of the original club
The founding of the original club. The date was a mistake: the original Ottawa club had played its first game in 1883, eleven years earlier.