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The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They play in the National Hockey League. The NHL's planned 1992 expansion had several strong contenders, but, starting in 1989, original owner Bruce Firestone put together an energetic bid to revive NHL hockey in Ottawa, using the last surviving original Senator, Frank Finnigan, as its public face. The new-look Senators won one of the two slots (along with the Tampa Bay Lightning) and began play in 1992. The Senators' bid had been considered something of a long-shot, and ran into financial trouble immediately. Firestone had trouble borrowing money to meet the 50 million dollar expansion fee. It is of note that in the 1995-1996 season, the Senators moved from the Ottawa Civic Centre to the Palladium (now known as Scotiabank Place) on January 15th 1996, which was in the near-by city of Kanata (which amalgamated under the City of Ottawa in 2000). On April 29, 2006, the Ottawa Senators defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, four games to one. Ray Emery became the first rookie netminder since Philadelphia's Brian Boucher in 2000 to win a playoff series. The Senators were defeated by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round on May 13, 2006, losing the series four games to one. This loss was particularly devastating since the Senators were widely tipped to win the Stanley Cup and were the highest seeded team left in the playoffs after the elimination of the Detroit Red Wings. Despite the high expectations, however, the Sens dropped the first three games of the series including two at home; ultimately losing on home ice, in overtime, on a short-handed goal scored by Buffalo's Jason Pominville in Game 5 of the series.
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