What the Sens should be with a good GM READ

Created by: Xspyrit

Team: 2022-23 Ottawa Senators

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 15, 2022

Published: Nov. 15, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

I messed up a few things and there's stuff we can't fix after it's done. I initially created "VeteranRHD, Good" but realized that I (and several other Sens fans) never understood why Dorion traded DeMelo for a freaking 3rd round pick. He had good chemistry with Chabot. This and the buyouts (shouldn't have traded for Hamonic, shouldn't have re-signed Gambrell) are the reason why the cap space is NEGATIVE.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
VeteranRHD, Good		4	$4,500,000

Trades

OTT

Paul, Nicholas

TBL

Joseph, Mathieu
2024 4th round pick (TBL)

OTT

Brown, Connor

WSH

2024 2nd round pick (WSH)

OTT

DeMelo, Dylan

WPG

2025 3rd round pick (OTT)

Additional Details:

The pick was 2020 3rd round pick (WPG)

Buyouts

Bobby Ryan: $1,833,333
Colin White: $875,000
Michael Del Zotto: $500,000
Dion Phaneuf: $354,167
Travis Hamonic: $1,666,667
Dylan Gambrell: $158,334

Retained Salary Transactions

Matt Murray: $1,562,500 (25%)

Buried

Nikita Zaitsev: $3,375,000 ($4,500,000)
Good VeteranRHD: $3,375,000 ($4,500,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$85,557,382	$0	$4,450,000	-$3,057,382

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tkachuk, Brady $8,205,714$8,205,714 LW UFA - 6	Norris, Joshua $7,950,000$7,950,000 C UFA - 8	Batherson, Drake $4,975,000$4,975,000 RW, LW UFA - 5
DeBrincat, Alex $6,400,000$6,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Stützle, Tim $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 1	Giroux, Claude $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 3
Paul, Nicholas $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 7	Pinto, Shane $925,000$925,000 ($600,000$600K) C RFA - 1	Brown, Connor $3,600,000$3,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Crookshank, Angus $838,333$838,333 LW RFA - 2	Kastelic, Mark $821,667$821,667 C, RW RFA - 1	Motte, Tyler $1,350,000$1,350,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Brassard, Derick $750,000$750,000 C, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chabot, Thomas $8,000,000$8,000,000 LD UFA - 6	DeMelo, Dylan $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Forsberg, Anton $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 3
Brännström, Erik $900,000$900,000 LD/RD, LW RFA - 1	Zub, Artem $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Talbot, Cam $3,666,667$3,666,667 G UFA - 1
Sanderson, Jake $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) LD UFA - 2	Bernard-Docker, Jacob $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) RD RFA - 1
Holden, Nick $1,300,000$1,300,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Nov. 15, 2022 at 10:51 a.m.

Dan_the_Man

Joined: Oct. 2022

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You're making the assumption Paul resigns in Ottawa. 3.15 in Tampa might cost Ottawa 3.75-4 area. Winning, climate, taxes all favor TB.

Nov. 15, 2022 at 10:56 a.m.

Imagine874859

Pens are better

Joined: Aug. 2022

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Take Petry

Nov. 15, 2022 at 11:01 a.m.

Xspyrit

Joined: Jul. 2016

Posts: 10,506

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Quoting: Dan_the_Man

You're making the assumption Paul resigns in Ottawa. 3.15 in Tampa might cost Ottawa 3.75-4 area. Winning, climate, taxes all favor TB.

I'm not making any assumption. I can't change a player salary in a trade.

Besides, while it's totally unimportant here, rumor was he was asking for 3.25 AAV to stay in Ottawa, IIRC

That'd take a bit of time to dig (another website) and like I said, not important

Nov. 15, 2022 at 11:04 a.m.

Green4D4

... We're a "Team"..

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Connor Brown is out for the year with a blown ACL (6-8 months). Would he have not been injured in Ottawa? Who knows? Would a 3rd line of Joseph/Paul-Pinto-Brown be preferable to what we have now? Probably... honestly, Motte has turned into left handed version of CB anyways... production is similar right now too...

Also, what would a veteran RHD realistically cost? Marino went for the equivalent of Brannstrom and a 3rd? Would I have done that, absolutely yes... would you be able to sign Zub next year because of it? Probably not...

Nov. 15, 2022 at 11:49 a.m.

Xspyrit

Joined: Jul. 2016

Posts: 10,506

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Quoting: Green4D4

Connor Brown is out for the year with a blown ACL (6-8 months). Would he have not been injured in Ottawa? Who knows?

Most likely not. The butterfly effect is undeniable

Quoting: Green4D4

Would a 3rd line of Joseph/Paul-Pinto-Brown be preferable to what we have now? Probably... honestly, Motte has turned into left handed version of CB anyways... production is similar right now too...

I like Joseph but Paul > Joseph and it's not close

Also, yes Paul-Pinto-Brown would have been one of the best 3rd line in hockey, vastly superior to Motte-Pinto-Joseph

Motte is not a CB version, maybe a 4th line version? There's a reason why one has 69 career points while the other has 216

The thing is you could have matched up Paul-Pinto-Brown against any line and come out on top often. Can't do that with anything we have in the bottom-6 right now

Quoting: Green4D4

Also, what would a veteran RHD realistically cost? Marino went for the equivalent of Brannstrom and a 3rd? Would I have done that, absolutely yes... would you be able to sign Zub next year because of it? Probably not...

Weird, you don't see the update? Or maybe you were already writing this while I was editing

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