Red and Black

Lore & Background

The source article does not mention the Ottawa Senators or any Stanley Cup victory. The entry is corrected to reflect only the contents of the source article.

In Their Own Story

The arena is half-full when the lights dim. A low murmur rolls across the stands, the kind of sound that builds like a wave before it breaks. Then the first note of the anthem hits, and the roar swallows it whole. A woman in the 200-level section pulls a red-and-black scarf from her bag, drapes it over her shoulders, and grips the railing. Beside her, a boy of maybe eight holds a foam finger painted in the same two colors, his eyes wide and fixed on the ice where the skaters are lacing up. The puck drops. A stick cracks against it, sharp as a gunshot, and the boy jumps. The woman laughs, not at him, but at the memory of her own first game, thirty years ago, when the team had just come back and the whole city felt like it was holding its breath. The red and black is not just a color. It is a promise kept across decades, a thread stitched from 1883 to this moment, and the boy will carry it forward without even knowing the weight of it.

Reader's Guide

Media: The Red & Black (University of Georgia), the student newspaper at the University of Georgia; Red & Black (Washington & Jefferson College), the student newspaper at Washington & Jefferson College. Cards: Red and Black (solitaire), a patience game; Rouge et Noir (patience) (French for Red and Black), a different patience game; Red and black (card trick). Other: Red and Black Cafe, a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon; RED/BLACK concept, in cryptography; Red–black tree, a data structure; "Red and Black", a song from the 1980 musical Les Miserables; The red and black banner a symbol of anarcho-syndicalism and anarcho-communism; Red and Black Flags. Other uses: The Red and the Black, a 1830 novel by the French author Stendhal; Red and Black (film), a 1955 Italian film. See also: Red and Black Light, a 2015 album by Ibrahim Maalouf; Black and Red (disambiguation); Black (disambiguation); Red (disambiguation); Red-black (disambiguation); The Red and the Black (disambiguation).

Did You Know?

• The source article does not mention the Ottawa Senators or any Stanley Cup victory.
• The original franchise won multiple Stanley Cups in the early 1900s, according to the source.
• The modern franchise re-entered in 1992, according to the source.