Keep in mind that unless he negotiated a retro active NMC, as a condition of signing an extension with Ottawa, he would have been subject to the conditions set out in his final year of his current contract ...... that being a LNMC, AKA 10 team no trade list.
When EK65 rejected the reportedly 88 million offer, he and his agent were granted permission to talk to other teams, that he would like to go to, and were interested in acquiring him, to try and work out an extension with them, and then do a sign and trade provided the trade was agreeable to the Senators ............. this did not happen.