Follow the Leeder: Senators founders overcame skeptics

Ottawa Senators president Cyril Leeder. Ottawa Sun file photoTwenty-five years later, Cyril Leeder can look back on the story of winning the franchise like it was yesterday.

This isn't something you don't soon forget.

In those days, as a young executive at Terrace Investments, he formed a bond with Bruce Firestone and Randy Sexton -- all three will be forever linked as the men who led the charge and brought the NHL back to Ottawa.

Standing in the hallway of the Canadian Tire Centre as Vancouver Canucks stars Henrik and Daniel Sedin (not sure which was which) made their way down the hall toward the Sens' dressing room to visit an old friend, Leeder, the Senators president, is giving his own…