Team: 2020-21 Ottawa Senators

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 12, 2020

Published: Mar. 12, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

IF the season is to be cancelled today. The biggest question is what happens with the Draft. for simplicity sake I will assume they just use the old format of Last place gets first and so on. They avoid a lottery altogether as the reason the lottery was put in place was to avoid tanking and since none of the teams were purposefully losing this is the safest and fairest way to manage the draft in my opinion.

With that being said time for more fun using tankathon as well as the NHLs most recent Top 31 prospects to see what the 20-21 sens could look like.


2nd Overall: Tim Stutzle
3rd Overall: Quinton Byfield
21st Overall: Justin Barron

Ottawa pulls two deals over the summer but otherwise stays the course with the rebuild as we have plenty of good young talent on the way. Arizona deal helps us get to the cap floor while giving them some cap relief. The Edmonton deal gives JP a fresh start but i do feel he still has better value than Tierney thus the later 2nd round pick. With JPs past however Ottawa gives him a 1 year prove yourself deal while keeping his Rights at years end he either shows up and becomes similar to the new Duclair as reclamation project or potentially a 2021 TDL trade piece. Numbers are again just to simply help get us to the cap floor.


Belleville Line-Up

Formenton - Brown - Batherson
Abramov - Pinto - Balcers
Gruden - Chlapik - Beaudoin
Carcone - Kelly - Davidson

Bernard-Docker - Thompson
Alsing - Barron
Lajoie Tychonick

Daccord
Gustavsson

The top line for Belleville is very much interchangeable with Stutzle, Byfield and Norris depending on how training camp goes and simply how our 2 new draft picks acclimate themselves to the NHL. The biggest challenge Ottawa will have is the fact that they have all of this great young talent but still have to find a way to hit the cap floor. Leaving multiple quality young players in a limbo between the AHL and NHL until the likes of Tkachuk, Brown, Batherson start to come out of their ELC and can start eating up some of that cap space although with someone like Brown if he doesn't have an amazing camp and push Norris with the draft of Byfield he has similar size and could be an easy alternative making Brown expendable at some point.

Looking at the long picture for Ottawa it's clear to see that come the 2021-22 Season and going forward if they keep being patient and allow everyone to develop and DJ smith can continue to get the most out of his players this could be quite a strong team for quite a few years. There are still a ton of what ifs and some of these players could fall of or be a bust but the future looks bright.

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