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From Maple Leafs to Senators: My Fandom Journey

Imagine my luck.

I spent my entire life a diehard Maple Leafs fan. For the entirety of my teens and 20s, they were horrendous and borderline unwatchable. They brought in incompetent management that made bad trades, overpaid free agents, and couldn’t make a draft pick to save their lives. Then, they got Auston Matthews, the tides turned, and they became one of the top teams in the NHL. It was around this time that I decided I wanted to be a hockey writer, so I started a blog and began looking for work. Now I’m starting my first job with The Hockey Writers. But there’s a catch: they need me to cover the rebuilding OTTAWA SENATORS.

The Leafs’ victory song is true; I really am getting right back to where I started from. Whatever. Loyalty is overrated. Fifty in ’07 baby, go Sens go!

To learn about my new favorite team, I decided to get in touch with a few anonymous lifelong Senators fans to uncover our pain points and what to be optimistic about moving forward.  Let’s start…

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