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Luckiest jerseys in the NHL’s long and storied history

By Bruin Belisle

DENVER, COLORADO - JUNE 9: Ray Bourque #77 of the Colorado Avalanche lifts the cup with Joe Sakic #19 after the Colorado Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1 in game seven of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The Avalanche take the series 4-3. (Photo by B Bennett/Getty Images)
DENVER, COLORADO - JUNE 9: Ray Bourque #77 of the Colorado Avalanche lifts the cup with Joe Sakic #19 after the Colorado Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1 in game seven of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The Avalanche take the series 4-3. (Photo by B Bennett/Getty Images) /
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OTTAWA, CANADA – DECEMBER 14: Craig Anderson #41 of the Ottawa Senators wears his new Heritage themed mask that pays tribute to Clint Benedict, a Hockey Hall of Fame netminder who backstopped the original Senators to three Stanley Cups in the 1920s during an NHL game against the Boston Bruins at Scotiabank Place on December 14, 2011 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Bruins won 5-2. (Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images)
OTTAWA, CANADA – DECEMBER 14: Craig Anderson #41 of the Ottawa Senators wears his new Heritage themed mask that pays tribute to Clint Benedict, a Hockey Hall of Fame netminder who backstopped the original Senators to three Stanley Cups in the 1920s during an NHL game against the Boston Bruins at Scotiabank Place on December 14, 2011 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Bruins won 5-2. (Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images) /

23. Ottawa Senators

The current Ottawa Senators have probably been the NHL’s most unlucky team in the last few seasons. Given that they’ve rocked the same jerseys for most of their history, we can pair them all together and cover every reason why this team didn’t crack the top 20.

First, Eugene Melnyk. One of the most hated owners in the NHL has been on a legendary run of dismantling a team that was a double-overtime loss away from a Stanley Cup final only two years ago. Yes, I too Googled that to make sure it was correct. From that team, only the spare, unwanted parts are left.

Ottawa won a bunch of Stanley Cups before the modern NHL was created. Two of their 11 Cup wins came against the Rat Portage Thistles. Yes, Rat Portage. The Canadian city currently known as Kenora used to be called Rat Portage. I wonder why they went with a name change?

These hardly count as Cup wins and no one reading this was around to argue that point anyway. The current NHL’s Ottawa Senators were reintroduced in 1992 and they’ve had their fair share of bad luck since then. Most notably, on their 2007 Stanley Cup run, which, like the Wild before this, was ended by the Anaheim Ducks.

The luckiest Senators jerseys definitely came back in the 1920’s. And the luckiest thing about the current team was getting to see Rihanna wearing it. The team was considered hockey’s first dynasty and at one point, was so stacked that they were forced to trade away two hall-of-fame players to make room for two players coming in that would also both make the hall of fame. That success did not follow the second iteration of the team, though, which is why the Current Senators are ranked so low on the list.

The current team has a long list of problems and unlucky breaks that have put this team into a rebuild without many resources to do so. It’ll be a while before they are any good again. In the meantime, stay away from Uber, guys.

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