OTTAWA — Good to great.

That’s what the Ottawa Senators are trying to achieve in the 2025-26 season.

The Senators have been a good team many times — including last season when they ended a seven-year playoff drought. But they have been great on only a handful of occasions — 2003, 2007 and 2017, with their lone Stanley Cup Final appearance sandwiched by two runs to the Eastern Conference Final.

“We’re here not just to make the playoffs either. We’re here to do a lot more than that,” Ottawa coach Travis Green said as the team reported to training camp on Wednesday.

Both Green and general manager Steve Staios were coy about their precise objectives, but just being good this season is not good enough.

“They (the players) understand that it’s not going to get easier,” said Green. “It gets

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