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I’m starting a new series that covers the NHL’s first dynasty, the Ottawa Senators of the 1920s. The Sens won the Cup four times in the ‘20s (‘20, ‘21, ‘23, ‘27) and were one of the best teams in the NHL during this decade. If not for the Great Depression, the Senators probably would have stayed in the NHL and made the Original Six the Original Seven. In 1920, a year after the Spanish Flu cancelled the remainder of the 1919 Stanley Cup finals, the Senators and PCHA’s Vancouver Millionaires took to the ice to have Lord Stanley’s trophy awarded for the first time in two year. Back then, even though the NHL had been formed, NHL teams still played teams from other leagues and associations for the Cup. Player transfer between leagues was also fairly common at the time until the NHL took a monopoly on the hockey world in the latter part of the 1920s. One team would usually host all games, but after the third game, the teams had to move to Toronto to find an arena with a better ice surface, a...

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