Travis Green has his eye on the prize.

On the eve of his second season behind the Ottawa Senators bench, the club’s head coach doesn’t just want his team to make the playoffs, the 54-year-old has a bigger goal in mind.

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“Our goal isn’t just to make the playoffs. Our goal is to win a Stanley Cup. That’s as an organization,” Green told Postmedia in a one-on-one interview on Tuesday at his Canadian Tire Centre office.

The Senators made the playoffs for the first time in eight years this past spring and made a marked improvement under Green by playing strongly at both ends of the ice.

Steve Staios, the club’s president of hockey operations and general manager, didn’t make many changes in the off-season, which means a lot of the improvement will have to come from within.

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