Nearly 34 years ago, Ottawa Senators president and chief executive officer Cyril Leeder and founder Bruce Firestone scheduled a meeting with late National Capital Commission chair Jean Pigott to talk about building a home for the expansion National Hockey League franchise at LeBreton Flats.

Dare to dream, Ottawa. The most anticipated announcement in Ottawa for months was not Prime Minister Justin’s Trudeau’s potential resignation, as several commentators had been prognosticating. What we had actually been waiting for was whether the long drawn-out negotiations between the National Capital Commission and the Ottawa Senators on a new arena at LeBreton Flats would become reality,