2016–17 Ottawa Senators season
Date Player Contract terms ( in U.S. dollars )
July 1 , 2016 Michael Kostka 1 year , $ 800,000 two-way
July 1 , 2016 Max McCormick 1 year , $ 650,000 two-way
July 1 , 2016 Casey Bailey 1 year , $ 874,125 two-way
July 1 , 2016 Phil Varone 1 year , $ 700,000 two-way
July 5 , 2016 Ryan Dzingel 1 year , $ 750,000 two-way
July 6 , 2016 Fredrik Claesson 1 year , $ 700,000 two-way
July 15 , 2016 Matt Puempel 1 year , $ 900,000 two-way
July 27 , 2016 Mike Hoffman 4 years , $ 20.75 million
August 23 , 2016 Cody Ceci 2 years , $ 5.6 million
September 23 , 2016 Gabriel Gagne 3 years , $ 2.775 million entry-level contract
October 3 , 2016 Maxime Lajoie 3 years , $ 2.4 million entry-level contract
December 22 , 2016 Filip Chlapik 3 years , $ 2.775 million entry-level contract
January 23 , 2017 Zack Smith 4 years , $ 13 million contract extension
February 20 , 2017 Fredrik Claesson 1 year , $ 650,000 one-way contract extension
February 27 , 2017 Alex Burrows 2 year , $ 5 million contract extension
March 30 , 2017 Marcus Hogberg 2 year , entry-level contract
April 2 , 2017 Colin White 3 year , entry-level contract
May 30 , 2017 Christian Jaros 3 year , entry-level contract
Player signings
The 2016-17 Ottawa Senators season was the 25th season of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). After failing to make the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Senators replaced their management and coaching staff, promoting Pierre Dorion to general manager, and hiring Guy Boucher and Marc Crawford and assistants to coach the team. The team would defy the predictions of much of the media by qualifying for the 2017 playoffs, and then by winning two rounds in the playoffs before losing in double overtime in game seven of the Eastern Conference Final to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins. As of 2019, this is the only time in the post-Daniel Alfredsson era where the Senators were close to the finals, and it would have been their first finals appearance since 2007. Coincidentally they were close to rematching the Anaheim Ducks, whom they lost to in the 2007 Finals. The season was notable for off-ice issues. Despite the success of the team, attendance at Canadian Tire Centre dropped during the regular season, to the lowest average gate by the team in 20 seasons. The team fired its head of marketing early in the season. The team also replaced its president, co-founder Cyril Leeder, with Tom Anselmi in January 2017.