The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators, 1883-1935
On a brisk morning in February 1884 under a blue sky in Montreal, the Ottawas, for the first time as a representative team, took to the hard, clear ice of the McGill College grounds. Wearing red and black striped jerseys and caps and dark knickerbockers (breeches gathered in at the knee), they felt a surge…
The Ottawa Hockey Club, the Ottawas, the Silver Seven, and the Senators were all one in the same. The Ottawa Hockey Club was organized to play what was becoming the increasingly popular game of hockey in 1883. Its original members assembled to play the game among themselves just for the fun of it, while…
Early matches of hockey were adaptations from the rules of the English game of field hockey. Play started and was renewed after each game, with a “Bully in the centre of the ground”. In the bully, the opposing centres banged their sticks together before trying to gain possession of the “ball”, or puck, positioned between…