Editing Ottawa Senators (section)

===Attendance, revenue and ownership===
On April 18, 2008, the club announced its final attendance figures for 2007–08. The club had 40 sell-outs out of 41 home dates, a total attendance of 812,665 during the regular season, placing the club third in attendance in the NHL.<ref name="2008-wrap">{{cite web|url=http://senators.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=360923&page=NewsPage&service=page |author=Rob Brodie |date=April 18, 2008 |access-date=April 23, 2008 |title=Senators already looking forward |website=Ottawa Senators |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420181658/http://senators.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=360923 |archive-date=April 20, 2008}}</ref> The number of sell-outs and the total attendance were both club records. The previous attendance records were set during the 2005–06 with a season total of 798,453 and 33 sell-outs.<ref name="media-guide-pg170">{{cite book|title=Ottawa Senators Media Guide 2007–2008 |publisher=Ottawa Senators |year=2007 |page=170}}</ref> In the 2006–07 regular season, total attendance was 794,271, with 31 sell-outs out of 41 home dates or an average attendance of 19,372. In the 2007 playoffs, the Senators played nine games with nine sell-outs and an attendance of 181,272 for an average of 20,141, the highest in team history.<ref name="media-guide-pg170"/> Until recent seasons, the club was regularly represented in the top half in attendance in the NHL.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nhl/|title=NHL Attendance Report|publisher=ESPN|access-date=March 26, 2010|archive-date=December 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201001318/http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018–19, the Senators average attendance was 14,553, 27th in the league.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/nhl/ |title=NHL Attendance Report - 2018-19 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=April 13, 2019 |archive-date=July 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709184940/http://www.espn.com/nhl/attendance |url-status=live}}</ref> Attendance dropped further in the 2019–20 season, dropping to an average of 12,618, the lowest in the league.<ref name="cbc-2020-12-11">{{cite web |website=CBC Sports |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/the-buzzer-nhl-forbes-valuations-1.5835050 |title=The NHL's wealth is concentrated (and other takeaways from Forbes' valuations) |first=Jesse |last=Campigotto |date=December 9, 2020 |access-date=December 12, 2020 |archive-date=December 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211040736/https://www.cbc.ca/sports/the-buzzer-nhl-forbes-valuations-1.5835050 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022, ''[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]'' magazine valued the Senators at {{USD|800}}&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/rangers-named-nhls-most-valuable-franchise-by-forbes-for-eighth-straight-year/ |title=Rangers named NHL's most valuable franchise by Forbes for eighth straight year |accessdate=June 6, 2023 |work=cbssports.com |date=December 15, 2022}}</ref> ''Forbes'' estimated the debt/value ratio at 25% and that the team earned {{USD|47}} million in 2020–21 on revenue of {{USD|157}}&nbsp;million.<ref name="forbes-dec22">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/teams/ottawa-senators/?sh=222bcd132814 |title=Ottawa Senators on the Forbes The Business of Hockey List |website=forbes.com |date=December 14, 2022 |accessdate=June 6, 2023}}</ref> The team is now owned by Michael Andlauer who is the majority owner along with his partners, Eugene Melnyk's daughters, and a group of Canadian businessmen.<ref name="Michael Andlauer is the new owner of the Ottawa Senators" /> It was previously owned by Eugene Melynk who bought the team and arena out of bankruptcy in 2003 for {{USD|92}}&nbsp;million.<ref name="forbes-melnyk">{{cite web |title=#14 Ottawa Senators |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/31/biz_07nhl_Ottawa-Senators_318444.html |website=Forbes |access-date=December 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110234814/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/31/biz_07nhl_Ottawa-Senators_318444.html |archive-date=November 10, 2007 |date=November 8, 2007}}</ref> Before Melnyk's ownership, the Senators were owned by founder Terrace Investments, majority owned by Rod Bryden, until it declared bankruptcy in 2002.<ref name="MacGregor1993-cit"/><ref name="whig"/> Terrace Investments initially won the bid for an NHL franchise in 1990.{{sfn|Finnigan|1992|p=201}}