You should be very worried about our return my man.
It's going to be ugly.
Oh don't get me wrong I expect nothing, but I'm still going to complain about it
You should be very worried about our return my man.
It's going to be ugly.
If you had a 4th and a 5th this year in the draft and all you ended up with a Bergman four years from now you'd probably be okay with that - actually you might be pretty happy.
If you had a 2nd round pick next year you would probably be hoping to someday get a player equal to Bodker.
People overvalue draft picks. Personally, given our state as a team I would prefer the draft picks over the Hoffman return we got. But if we think about it probabilistically, a mid-to-late 2nd, a mid-to-late 4th and a mid-to-late 5th probably has a combined probability of generating a single NHL player of about 50%.
Our drafting has been generally good so I can see the desire for the picks but I do not see the value people put on draft picks as being accurate - especially when the drop off is so big after the top of the 2nd round usually.
Some hot predictions for the coming weeks:
To Vegas: Erik Karlsson, Bobby Ryan
To Ottawa: David Clarkson, Oscar Lindberg, Colin Miller, Nick Suzuki, Nicolas Hague, 2019 1st
To Carolina: Zack Smith
To Ottawa: 2018 4th, 2018 4th [ARI]
Buyouts: Marian Gaborik and Alex Burrows
UFA signings: John Moore [2 years, 5M], Chris Wideman [1 year, 1M]
RFA contracts are projections.
Presenting YOUR Ottawa Senators...
Dzingel [1.8] - Duchene [6.0] - White [.925]
Boedker [4.0] - Brown [.863] - Stone [7.5]
Lindgerg [1.25] - Pageau [3.1] - Pyatt [1.1]
Paajarvi [.9] - Paul [.75] - McCormick [.65]
Chabot [.863] - Miller [3.75]
Moore [2.5] - Ceci [4.0]
Borowiecki [1.2] - Wideman [1.0]
Harpur [.725]
Anderson [4.75]
Condon [2.4]
LTIR: Clarkson and MacArthur
Cap: 65.7M
Salary: 56.3M
Some hot predictions for the coming weeks:
To Vegas: Erik Karlsson, Bobby Ryan
To Ottawa: David Clarkson, Oscar Lindberg, Colin Miller, Nick Suzuki, Nicolas Hague, 2019 1st
To Carolina: Zack Smith
To Ottawa: 2018 4th, 2018 4th [ARI]
Buyouts: Marian Gaborik and Alex Burrows
UFA signings: John Moore [2 years, 5M], Chris Wideman [1 year, 1M]
RFA contracts are projections.
Presenting YOUR Ottawa Senators...
Dzingel [1.8] - Duchene [6.0] - White [.925]
Boedker [4.0] - Brown [.863] - Stone [7.5]
Lindgerg [1.25] - Pageau [3.1] - Pyatt [1.1]
Paajarvi [.9] - Paul [.75] - McCormick [.65]
Chabot [.863] - Miller [3.75]
Moore [2.5] - Ceci [4.0]
Borowiecki [1.2] - Wideman [1.0]
Harpur [.725]
Anderson [4.75]
Condon [2.4]
LTIR: Clarkson and MacArthur
Cap: 65.7M
Salary: 56.3M
You should be very worried about our return my man.
It's going to be ugly.
It's not about that. It's about freeing up money for a cash strapped team, when we need to allocate funds for Ceci and Stone, and maybe even EK.
Duchene to Chicago?Chicago and Ottawa talking trade and a centre might be involved according to John Jaeckel @jaeckel on twitter. Not sure how legit he is, but he has over 4000 followers. Looks like he’s a writer who covers the Hawks.
Duchene to Chicago?
Nick Schmaltz++ for Karlsson?
Chicago and Ottawa talking trade and a centre might be involved according to John Jaeckel @jaeckel on twitter. Not sure how legit he is, but he has over 4000 followers. Looks like he’s a writer who covers the Hawks.
Smith? I feel like the Hawks have been rumoured to be interested in him for awhile.
Boone Jenner would make sense as a target. He is an RFA, he is big, fast, gritty, has leadership qualities and can play centre and wing. Dorion would likely pay way too much though.
Also with Dorion's recent history it will probably be for Brandon Dubinsky and we will just take on another bad contract without getting rid of one.
Jenner plays for Columbus.
Wonder if they are maybe discussing trading Smith for Hossa's contract + assets
I see no reason to trade anything of value for him if we're trading Karlsson.On the main trade board they say that Flyers are getting ready to trade Wayne Simmonds. I would have to think that Dorion would aggressively pursue him. Simmonds is fast, gritty and has leadership qualities which are all the things he claimed influenced the Boedkker acquisition. Per Michael Russo:
I see no reason to trade anything of value for him if we're trading Karlsson.
It's a bandaid that will delay the inevitable.
John Jaeckel has a hard on for starting dubious Hawks/Sens rumours. Always has. Remember Neil for Cam Barker? That was him. Remember Zack Smith for Hjalmarsson? Also him.