The 2011–12 Ottawa Senators season was the 20th season (19th season of play) of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 It was considered a rebuilding season for the Senators after an off-season of high player personnel turnover and the hiring of a new head coach.
 Although the Senators were not expected to make the playoffs, the team qualified eighth.
 The team lost, however, in the first round to the first-place New York Rangers, although they took the series to a seventh game.
 Three Senators were nominated for NHL awards: captain Daniel Alfredsson for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, Erik Karlsson for the James Norris Trophy and Head Coach Paul MacLean for the Jack Adams Award.
 The Senators hosted the NHL All-Star Game and its festivities.
 Alfredsson was named captain of one of the teams and five Senators played in the Game.
The 2004–05 Ottawa Senators season was the 13th season of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 All games were cancelled due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout, which cancelled play for the entire League.
 Several of the Senators' players played for teams in European hockey leagues while some played for the Senators' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Binghamton Senators.
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 The team is a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 The Senators, named after the original Ottawa Senators, began play in the NHL as an expansion team in 1992.
 Having first played at the Ottawa Civic Centre, the Senators have played their home games at the Canadian Tire Centre, which was first named The Palladium, since 1996.
 The team has been to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 2006–07 season, but lost to the Anaheim Ducks in five games.
 The Senators are owned by Eugene Melnyk.
 Pierre Dorion is the team's general manager.
 Erik Karlsson is the team captain.
 The current head coach is Guy Boucher, hired on May 8, 2016.
The Binghamton Senators were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL).
 Nicknamed the B-Sens, they played in Binghamton, New York, at the Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena.
 The B-Sens were minor league affiliates of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League.
 In 2017, the B-Sens' franchise was relocated by the Ottawa Senators to become the Belleville Senators.
 Binghamton then replaced the franchise with the Binghamton Devils, the AHL franchise of the New Jersey Devils.
The 1996–97 Ottawa Senators season was the fifth season of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 This season saw great improvement by the club, as the team finished out of last place in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the first time in team history, and went on to qualify for the 1997 Stanley Cup playoffs as the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference.
 In the playoffs, the Senators lost in the first round (Conference quarter-finals) to the Buffalo Sabres.
Founded and established by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone, the Ottawa Senators are the second National Hockey League (NHL) franchise to have the Ottawa Senators name.
 The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1883, had a famed history, winning 11 Stanley Cups and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934.
 On December 6, 1990, after a two-year public campaign by Firestone to return the NHL to Ottawa, the NHL awarded a new franchise, which began play in the 1992–93 season.
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 The team is a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 The Senators, named after the original Ottawa Senators, began play in the NHL as an expansion team in 1992.
 Having first played at the Ottawa Civic Centre, the Senators have played their home games at the Canadian Tire Centre, which was first named The Palladium, since 1996.
 The team has had eight general managers since their inception.
The Viking Award is awarded annually to the best Swedish ice hockey player in North America.
 The winner is decided by a vote among all Swedish-born players participating in the NHL or the NHL farm-team leagues.
 Only Mats Sundin has received the award four times.
 Peter Forsberg, Markus Näslund, Börje Salming, Henrik Zetterberg and Erik Karlsson have received it three times.
Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson (] ; born 31 May 1990) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 Karlsson was drafted in the first round, 15th overall, by the Senators at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
 Karlsson is a two-time winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman, winning the award in 2012 and 2015.
The Ottawa Senators, also known as the Ottawa Commandos and Senior Senators, was an amateur, later semi-professional, senior-level men's ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 In 1934, the Ottawa Auditorium, owners of the Ottawa Hockey Association decided it could no longer operate the Senators of the National Hockey League in Ottawa due to mounting financial losses.
 The Association split its hockey operations, relocating the NHL franchise to St. Louis, and continuing the Senators as an amateur club.
 The club operated from 1934 until 1955, winning the Allan Cup Canadian men's senior ice hockey championship in 1943, 1948 and 1949.
 During the war years from 1942 until 1944, it operated as the Ottawa Commandos.

Question: How many time was the captain of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League awarded the Viking Award?
Answer: three times