Well, considering how much of a train wreck the season was with star players I can't wait to see the train wreck this year of ... uh.. White and Chabot *thumbs up* ...actually this is the time of year I start twitching waiting for hockey to come back.
I'm looking forward to the Sharks, not this damned team. 4 Leafers plus other flotsam and jetsam and hearing Brunnstrom probably won't even make this team out of camp. I get it he's young but it's going on either his 3rd or 4th season as a pro and he can't or won't make this bottom feeding mess of a team. Dorian's one shining get for trading everyone and he still can't make a whale turd of a team
Well, considering how much of a train wreck the season was with star players I can't wait to see the train wreck this year of ... uh.. White and Chabot *thumbs up* ...actually this is the time of year I start twitching waiting for hockey to come back.
Lots of 2019 Leafers on there, all the flotsam and jetsam that Dubas didn’t want. What could go wrong? We did get Cecitsev in return and 5 years of him!!
Sens sign Colin White to a 6 year $28.5M deal ($4.75M cap hit)
Does this bring us up to the cap floor?
Probably but who cares anymore at this point...unparalleled success or failure will be met with apathy
They were above the cap floor prior to signing White. However that is by carrying the dead $15M of cap space in Gaborik, MacArthur, and Callahan.
Unofficially they are still under the cap floor ($60.2M) at $54.6M for a roster of 13F, 7D, 2G that does not include LTIR. Players union can’t be happy about that.
From the Athletic and an article on the best and worst run front offices in the NHL;
In a stunning upset, the Senators finish outside last place in something. Bravo.
That has more to do with the Wild’s meltdown being on the tip of everyone’s tongue than it is with Ottawa’s current status which is still extremely bleak, somehow even bleaker than it was last season. Trading away your three best players, all pending free agents, will do that and likely why the team ranked dead last or second last in trading, free agency and roster building.
There’s a lot of building ahead of them and not much faith in the vision to execute it. On the fan base side, there is some hope in the team’s ability to draft and develop, but even that glimmer ranks in the league’s bottom five. It speaks more to the optimism every fan base has in its pipeline than anything the Senators are actually doing.
Much of this does not actually land on the front office, but on ownership. The words “Melnyk Out” were a popular sentiment on a plethora of survey comments and it’s astounding that an owner can be so unanimously blamed for a franchise’s misfortunes. With him remaining at the helm, it feels like the team has “unparalleled” failure in store for their future.
