(Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers and fans who hated them the most. Here is Montreal Canadiens fan, blogger and cartoonist Liam McKenna, fondly recalling the 2014-15 Ottawa Senators. Again, this was not written by us. Also: This is a roast and you will be offended by it, so don't take it so seriously.)

By Liam McKenna

We are gathered here today to remember and dismember a remarkable season for the Ottawa Senators. You’ll have to excuse the mourning party, as approximately a third of them are fans of the Montreal Canadiens, as the Senators couldn’t find the fan support to attend even their own funeral.

What a season it was! The first half of the capital city’s campaign was a dreary look at how bad this team truly is; the second half a feverish dream that, upon reflection, might as well never have happened. Then again, Ottawa going out in the first round is pretty good for them.

In fact, Ottawa is so used to results that flounder below mediocrity that this may well have been one of the best seasons in franchise history. I mean, that they made it to the playoffs was admittedly surprising. To call the Senators’ run improbable is doing it a disservice. It was a crazy, crazy finish to the regular season. But it was the regular season, and that means it didn’t actually mean anything. The fact that the most insecure fanbase in hockey regards it as an historic achievement tells you a lot about how based that insecurity is.

The city of Ottawa was so swept up in the hype of a team that had to win almost every single one of their last thirty games that it added this achievement to its list of the Best Things the Ottawa Senators Have Ever Done.

The Senators are desperate for history, largely due to their lousy team having folded from the league for sixty years, and their neighbours being the historically great Montreal Canadiens and the mythically terrible Toronto Maple Leafs. In an effort to make up for lost time, the Ottawa media frequently lists their team’s greatest accomplishments. I’ve made a list of my own:

Greatest Achievements in Ottawa Senators History

1) Making the Stanley Cup final that one time and losing it in five kind of close games, featuring a brutal own goal to seal it;

2) Alfie pretending to throw his stick once, which was pretty funny;

3) Winning a first round series against Montreal two years ago;

4) Giving everybody Alexandre Daigle as a punchline;

5) Curtis Lazar eating a hamburger.

There you have it. The actual list wasn’t that different. This season, though, Ottawa really, actually made history by being the first team to trail a playoff spot by fourteen points and still find their way into the postseason. But what’s been ignored about that little stat is this: the Ottawa Senators were the worst team ever to make the playoffs.

Your fancy claim to history is an indicator of ineptitude, not of greatness.

Their sense of accomplishment firmly entrenched – a season where Ottawa makes the playoffs is already one of the greatest in franchise history, after all - the Sens were boasting the kind of naiveté that a team has when they don’t know how truly bad they are (see: Flames, Calgary). For the duration of their drive to the playoffs, it was clear to everybody but the Sens themselves that they were playing over their heads. I can’t stress this enough – outside of Karlsson, the Senators just don’t have many good players.

Paul MacLean really nailed his assessment of the Sens just prior to his departure.

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