Silver Seven · Nov 14, 2018
Twitter Bot Scandal Just Another Chapter in Eugene Melnyk’s Unethical History
Eugene Melnyk is back in the news.
The owner and CEO of the Ottawa Senators has had a long and strenuous relationship with the fans since he bought the team in 2003. While his franchise saw success in the early years of the Melnyk era, culminating in a 2007 Stanley Cup Final appearance, the current state of the franchise is, as he put it, is “in the dumpster”.
While the context of that quote was in the middle of a cringy ‘interview’ discussing the team on the ice, it applies just as well to the team off the ice. A culmination of bad decisions has made the Senators the most laughable organization in the NHL, and a massive chunk of that falls on Melnyk.