Don't Back Down, the story of the birth of the modern era Ottawa Senators, full length final version
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Published 2015-12-06
This is the final extended version of Mr Falcone's first documentary film about the NHL's Senators, which can be seen at • Don't Back Down, The Story of the Ott...
This documentary was released to help celebrate the 25th anniversary (Sunday December 6th 2015) of the grant of conditional NHL expansion franchises to the cities of Ottawa and Tampa on Thursday December 6th 1990.
It coincides with the launch of the book: Don't Back Down, the real story of the founding of the NHL's Ottawa Senators and why big leagues matter written by team founder Bruce M Firestone available from brucemfirestone.com/product/dont-back-down/.
The book is the inside story of the return of the modern era Ottawa Senators. It’s an underdog tale full of suspense, intrigue and surprise. In it, Firestone explores and explains the world of pro sports–its characters, economics and prospects in North America.
He also shows how it might be possible to add more NHL teams in Canada, and what the future may hold for sports leagues and the Sens in a changing technological scene and altered state of city planning and development.
More about the film:
Features--Bruce M Firestone, Cyril M Leeder, Randy J Sexton, Liam Maguire, Jim Durrell, Dean Brown, Gord Wilson, Brad Marsh, Laurie Boschman
Filmed/edited/organized/produced by Giovanni Falcone, Producer, Mike HQ and Nick Losacco, Directors of Photography, John Petti, Assistant Producer, Rebecca Brunet, Assistant Director, Caroline Marchand, Film Editor, James Fish, Graphics
Film clips from CBC, CTV, Sens TV, NHL, Rogers
Thank you to Algonquin College TV Broadcasting.
Full Ottawa Senators playlist at, • Ottawa Senators
Outtakes with Sens President Cyril Leeder, youtube.com/watch?v=5tNsKn...
Outtakes with Penguins Randy Sexton, youtube.com/watch?v=Ln_uCf...
Full outtake interview with Sens Founder Bruce M Firestone available from youtube.com/watch?v=pcU73B....
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All Comments (21)
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Amazing video. Thank you to all of you, that made this team possible. Thank you for not giving up when times looked bleak. Long Live our Senators! GO SENS GO!
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This is so well done
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Excellent documentary. The incredible challenges in front of the ownership group were overcome one by one through a lot of passion, intellect, patience, determination, and teamwork. Kudos to all those who worked tirelessly to make this happen, and beating the odds.
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Great video. Can remember vividly when we were awarded the team. Was definitely an exciting time!
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Three words: Go Sens Go
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Love it.
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Definitely still has meant a lot to the community, even to this day. Obviously in hindsight, having an arena 25 mins on a good day outside of downtown Ottawa wasnt a good idea, but if it got us the team in the first place, thats what matters. Hopefully now weve got an owner that isnt scared to spend a bit to put together a competent team and a group of management that are capable of not making dumb moves, trading first round picks when we suck and convincing our best players to stick around. To be fair, those have been our biggest problems for 30 years and counting, so as much as I love having a team, itd be nice if we didnt have to wait 10 years between playoffs. Any complaints about fans not showing up to any professional sports team always starts with asking yourself as management, are we putting out a product that deserves to be paid for? Some markets can answer no and still function, but places like Ottawa need to give fans a reason to show up to games. The team being competitive is one, and a team thats located more centrally should be another priority going forward.
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My laptop died while watching this.
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1.3 million people in metro Ottawa. A no brainer....Winnipeg and Quebec had/have teams! Bring back Quebec and Hartford! Randy Sexton went to my alma mater (St. Lawrence in Canton NY).
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GO SENS GO!
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What a blast from the past! 1.7 million in the Ottawa region I'd say you would have to cast a pretty big net HAHA
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I wish that the modern Ottawa Senators had kept the "O" logo from the original team.
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This video gives more proof that Ottawa should be its own capital area, and not apart of Ontario and it's Toronto butt kissing ways. As a guy from Southern Ontario in the "Leafs Nation" area, thanks for bringing the team back, and giving me an actual team to cheer for. GO SENS, GO!!
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Sacramento, California. Early | Learning | Academy Ottawa, Canada.
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25:48 bottom left is brian "smitty" smith r.i.p.
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Let’s gibsens
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Meanwhile vegas wins the stanley cup 5 seasons in ?
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We will win that Stanley Cup next year, I will never back down to any Ottawa senators haters, ever
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To bad they have a lousy owner now, plus they completely built the arena in the wrong location.
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Now we just need an expansion team in Toronto, to give the Leafs a challenge, said the long suffering, since 1971, Leafs fan.
