A Look At Every Top-5 Pick in Ottawa Senators History

The Ottawa Senators have been here before, just not quite in the same fashion.

Since entering the league in 1992, the team has picked in the top five of the NHL Entry Draft a total of seven times. The players chosen have ranged from total home runs to complete and utter misfires, but the Senators have never had an opportunity quite like this one. In franchise history, they’ve never had two picks in the top five.

Even with this many picks, and this high in the draft, a lot goes into finding the best players, perhaps more so. History is, of course, the best teacher for matters like this. So let’s take a deep dive into the Senators’ seven top-five selections over the past 28 years, and see what…