Sports fans can go decades without basking in the glory of a championship courtesy of their favourite team.  In June, the Cavaliers ended Cleveland's 52-year trophy drought when they won the NBA Championship.  The Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Red Sox and New York Rangers ended their long droughts in the 1990s and 2000s.  Then on Wednesday night, the Chicago Cubs ended the longest championship drought in North American professional sports when they hoisted the World Series trophy after 108 painful years.  That feeling you get when you end a century of losing. The Chicago Cubs celebrate after defeating Cleveland 8-7 in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)  That left us thinking about Ottawa's professional hockey franchise. The most recent date stamp on the Stanley Cup banners that hang from the rafters of Canadian Tire Centre is 1927. That's 89 years without a championship.  Of course, Ottawa had no National Hockey League team for nearly 60 years, so it's hard to compare the capital's club to its rivals.  Take Toronto: the Maple Leafs have gone 48 seasons without a Stanley Cup — the longest consecutive streak of any NHL team. The modern Senators are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, with no championship to show for it.  Does that put the Sens in the same league as other luckless sports teams when it comes to championship droughts?  In this unscientific poll, a majority of people don't believe the 89-year drought counts. You can't argue with the various points that were made, either.  @CBCOttawa Winnipeg hasn't won since 1902 though...  @CBCOttawa @Senators Pretty absurd, if you count those years for Ottawa you have to count them for every city that didnt have a team  @CBCOttawa @Senators you have to be playing to win or loose. Cannot count years they didn't play in drought.  @CBCOttawa @Senators And don't forget @REDBLACKS - last Ottawa #CFL team to win #GreyCup 1976!!  If you poll the pro sports leagues in North America, the National Football League's Cardinals franchise owns the dubious record of longest consecutive playoff drought.  The poor Cardinals, who've called Chicago, St. Louis and now Arizona home, haven't won in 69 years.  That's just one year longer than Cleveland's baseball team, which just lost to the Cubs on Wednesday night, stretching their championship drought to 68 years.  Jason Kipnis shows the dejection of his team's Game 7 loss to Chicago. Cleveland's baseball team has now gone 68 years without a World Series win. (Elsa/Getty Images)
After the Chicago Cubs ended a championship drought that lasted more than a century with their World Series win Wednesday night, we wondered how the Ottawa Senators stacked up when it came to winless streaks.