2006-07 Regular Season 100 Points

Lore & Background

After numerous personnel changes at the start of the season, the team had a poor record until December. The team turned their play around to place second in the division and won three playoff series to make it to the Stanley Cup Finals, the first in Ottawa in 80 years. The line of Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Dany Heatley would lead the way with impressive offensive totals. In the playoffs, the line led the team to three series wins. In the Final, the line was shut down by the superior defence and goaltending of Anaheim and the team lost the series four games to one. Alfredsson would lead all scorers in the playoffs.

Reader's Guide

The goaltending duty was platooned between Ray Emery and Martin Gerber at first. Gerber struggled and Emery eventually won the starting job. The defence pairing of Chris Phillips and Anton Volchenkov won praise from the media for their 'shutdown effectiveness' against opposing top lines. The 'CASH line' of Spezza, Heatley, and Alfredsson was outstanding offensively, scoring nearly half of the Senators' goals in the post-season. Goaltender Ray Emery played all 20 playoff games and posted 13 wins.

Did You Know?

• The Senators lost four players to free agency in July 2006: Zdeno Chara, Brian Pothier, Dominik Hasek, and Vaclav Varada.
• Martin Gerber was signed to fill the void left by Hasek, and Ottawa also signed defenceman Joe Corvo.
• The Senators traded Martin Havlat and Bryan Smolinski to the Chicago Blackhawks for Tom Preissing, Josh Hennessy, Michal Barinka and a second-round draft pick in 2008.
• After starting with a 17–18–1 record by December 21, Ottawa played better from that point on (31–7–8).
• On January 3, 2007, Ottawa acquired centre Mike Comrie from the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for prospect Alexei Kaigorodov.