The sens were literally the worst teams of all time when they expanded. They have the worst regular season point total of the history of the NHL. They lost to their biggest rivals 4 straight times in the playoffs meanwhile the media loved the leafs so it was shoved down our throats. They were one of the best teams in the NHL for 10 straight seasons only to lose a full year of their prime to a lock out when they were at their absolute peak followed by that team getting torn apart from the new salary cap. Oh yeah the owner destroyed the relationship with the best player in franchise history then traded two of the best players in their primes when the team didnt even have their first round pick.
But no, they havent experienced true misery..... I have to say you consistently have one of if not the worst takes on this board. Logic is just not part of your vocabulary.
I think you're looking for things to be miserable about Bert if that is your take
When Ottawa and TB entered the league they got f***ed by the expansion rules. That wasnt misery. That was the way the league was and frankly the league has learned from that. The other day you mentioned being 38. That made you a kid when the sens were born in 92. I was an adult then and a STH. i wasnt miserable. I was thrilled and proud to have an NHL team. Full stop. We made the playoffs in 97 and went on an extended run as Canada's most succesful team in terms of regular season winning and making the playoffs. The 4 losses to the leafs were hard to suffer, no doubt about it. And we got screwed coming out of the 04 lockout with the cap but rebounded quickly and made the cup finals. The past 10 years have been up and down which isnt really surprising given we have 16 teams make the playoffs in a 30 team league. The line brawl against montreal, a game i was at, and the ecf run two years ago were high points of the past 10 years for me. Your bang on about your thoughts on ownership and the damage in the community stemming from that but wrt losing some star players, which we did, personally I think we're a bit ahead of the curve in the league as salary shifts away from ufa contracts and towards post elc contracts. I don't think that was particularly a planned thing but i do think that we will benefit from it.
I didnt grow up in an nhl city. I was in my late 20s when we got a team and to that point in my life i had attended 3 nhl games.
You had the good fortune of living in a city with an nhl team since you were a kid. I'm sorry man but i can't look back at 27 years of having a local nhl team and think its been nothing but misery