This time the Ottawa Senators had the advantage: the club flew to the Yukon, foregoing the march over the snow and ice (bicycles too?), foregoing the dog team trek, the ship south and the train ride east across Canada.

But our boys'll get ‘em next time, up in Dawson City tonight or in another 100 years or so.

The Dawson City Nuggets and the Ottawa Senators Alumni made history last night at the Takhini Arena with their re-creation of the 1905 three-game contest for the Stanley Cup.

The two clubs clashed at the Corel Centre in Ottawa in 1997, true, when the Sens trounced the Dawsonites 18-0 before 6,139 fans.

Many of the Yukoners from that game returned to the ice last night – this time for the first game between the two teams played on Yukon soil.

The Sens took the fourth game between the two teams in 106 years by a score of 10-1 before a sold-out crowd, some 1,500.

The Nuggets' Kevin Anderson sniped Dawson's lone goal at 13:14 of the third period, on a pass from Nugget ringer Brad May, a last-minute roster addition who won the 2007 Stanley Cup with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Sens forward Shawn Rivers notched four for the visitors, Chris Valentine added a hat trick and Murray Kuntz netted two.

"I want to salute Kevin Anderson for finally scoring, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy,” said Sens goaltender Gerry Armstrong, who is now an Ottawa area firefighter.

The score line was slightly wider than game one in 1905, a contest the Ottawa Silver Sevens won 9-2.

Current Nuggets captain John Flynn said that series was never far from his mind when wearing that jersey, despite the large crowd and the Senators' snappy puck movement.

"For us, it's more than a game,” said Flynn, who also captained the team in 1997.

"It's on your mind all the time. It's amazing, if you ever get a chance to see the Stanley Cup, and you look right at the very top – Dawson City versus the Ottawa Silver Sevens, 1905 – and that's pretty cool to say that we played for the Stanley Cup.”

Last night's Nuggets team comprised of hockey players from around the Yukon, including Whitehorse, Faro and Haines Junction.

Tonight's rematch at the Art and Margie Fry Recreation Centre in Dawson will feature a line up of purely Dawson players.

"I might be a little bit nervous,” Nuggets' goaltender Richard Nagano said of playing in front of the hometown crowd.

The arena, which can seat roughly 400, is sold out. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.

You scarcely get used to playing before big crowds, particularly if you only do it once every 14 years.

Nagano pointed out that when the Nuggets played in Ottawa in 1997, the Corel Centre's lower bowl was filled.

"Boy, I never seen anything like that, when we first stepped out on the ice, NHL ice,

I was kind of shocked,” he said.

He had an idea of what to expect from the Sens last night.

But he was up for it.

Nagano was arguably the best player for the Nuggets, covering both posts expertly and snatching sure goals out of the air.

"I expected there to be a lot of shots like in Ottawa, but that felt great,” Nagano said.

"My biggest mission was – no 18 goals.”

"It's just like when we went to Ottawa. The crowd here was the same. The atmosphere was great. So I'm glad that the fans showed up and filled the arena. It was a great moment. We're going to take this experience back to Dawson now and give ‘er again because the hometown crowd is waiting.”

Flynn said Ottawa should hoof it to Dawson 1905 style. (Instead, both teams left by plane today.)

"I would have loved to have made them follow the same trip. I'd like to throw them on (sleds) tomorrow morning real early and they could follow that Quest trail for Dawson and dog team straight to the arena and we could play hockey,” he said after last night's game.

Gladly, Armstrong joked.

"We wanted to come by dog sled originally,” he said, adding in seriousness: "I can't imagine what it took those guys, to come by dog sled and by boat, by train, the effort that they put in to make that challenge was unheard of and still is to this day.”

Flynn agreed.

And the re-creation games are the best way to keep that story alive.

"It was an amazing trip that they did, walking from Dawson with dog teams … and getting on the train, and hitting avalanches, and missing the ferry … and taking the train across Canada – it was an epic journey,” Flynn said.

"It's quite an honour to be captain. I had to tell the newcomers that were given a Nuggets uniform that they're part of an elite group now that dates back to 1905. It's not just a hockey game, this is part of history.”

A part of hockey history Ottawa is proud to be a part of, Sens player John Barrett said.

"It wasn't by our design; the Dawson City Nuggets coming to see us 15 years ago was our introduction to the north, and they take full credit for our involvement with the north,” Barrett said.

"We don't have a lot of big name players that would draw a big, big crowd. We're so well received in the north, because they're excited to have some ex-NHLers, but closer to home there are bigger name players that go around and play games and they'll draw a crowd. We're a band of people that have played on different teams that have just come together, and I think we're very privileged to make a connection with the north.”

The Senators alumni are active in the Ottawa area raising money for charity.

The team made a goal to raise $500,000 for Ottawa hospitals, for instance.

Barrett said the team went from playing in the NHL to being regular Joes with jobs who also raise money for minor hockey associations.

But, he added, they still take the games against Dawson seriously.

"We do have to establish that we are the hockey team,” he said, adding that Nagano played stellar in net.

"We run a very fine line, we don't want to rub anybody's noses in it, but we are the professionals. The guys in the other room, they're the guys that put this whole thing together, they're the ones that deserve all the credit, we're just doing what we know how to do, what we were trained to do. We don't run the score up, or we're not trying to beat them badly to be goliath … we're going to enjoy the best part of the game, having a few beers and chatting it up with the guys from the other team who we've become friends with.”

Flynn added that, yes, the Sens always come to win.

"They come to play hockey, they want to beat us; it's not a Harlem Globetrotter game, there's no gimmicks out there, they don't have any fire on their skates.

They're out there to win,” he said.

"When we played the in '97, they wanted to beat us by more than 22 goals, they wanted to beat that record from 1905, and so when they come up here, we let them know that we're going to give them our best.

"We scored a goal, so maybe in another 100 years we might get two goals, and maybe our grandkids will travel to Ottawa and play at that time.”