I’d be down for that SJS trade - not sure how much Ottawa would like it tho (isn’t Wolanin supposed to play this year, and Jaros has a good upside).

i got chara and also i wanted to give brown a spot

Yup, I see Big Z returning possible but unlikely. I wouldn’t do the toews trade so it kinda stops the process. I think Ottawa has no need for it.

it is supposed to be a 1 year cup run if this was for the futre i would not do this

future

This "cup run" team is nowhere close to the playoffs, let alone the cup. But now the future is absolutely ruined too.

ya not in the atlantic but in the canaidian division maybe

and its not supposed to be about the future

and also it could playoff team when you look at saint louis 2018 19....

Just because you add Toews to a bad team doesn’t mean that you’ll make the playoffs, and it’s not even Toews in his prime

i did not say toews was the reason they could did i

Umm... no. To all of it.

and im pretty sure toews is in his prime the last 2 years he has been very good also he brings in lots of leadership

They'd have a better chance in the Normal Atlantic Division. There's no way they beat out WPG, EDM, TOR or CGY, and they probably aren't even better than MTL or VAN.

True, but he was the main acquisition that you made, and probably if this team was a playoff team Toews would be very responsible

I agree he is still good and hasn’t fallen off a cliff, but he isn’t as good as he once was

ya i think he was better in like 2010 11 then fell off a bit for a few years but hes climbed back up again

but i also went for hoffman and with the saint louis thing in 2018 19 you never know

ok they have a better chance at beating boston tampa toronto montreal and buffalo

maybe buffalo but i do not think they would get wild card considdering how stacked the metro is

It has them playing Detroit and Florida more, which are teams Ottawa can be competitive against. There are no bad teams in the Canadian division besides Ottawa.

Also the point you're making is proving that trying to make Ottawa a cup team in one year is totally stupid. There's no shot of them being competitive this year.

Jaros will never be more than a 6/7 D, and Wolanin is just a 4/5 D, so the SJS offer seems fair, and Nick Paul, who's very underrated but not a core piece, is worth a bit more than a 5th, but Ottawa probably still doesn't do these trades because they don't need picks if they are going for it. Their cap hit is $3MM combined, so they aren't cap dumps, they're squeezed out. I'd trade Watson before Paul, and send a waivers exempt player down before trading Wolanin. There's no D extra, and two extra F in your lineup, so an exempt F can be sent down to balance the roster. Josh Norris at $925K makes room for Wolanin's $900K.

It would be very short sighted for Ottawa to trade Stuetzle for Toews, even if they thought it was the last piece to put them over.

Ottawa isn't ready to compete. Yes they signed Dadonov, but that's because this is the year he was a FA. I'm sure they would have wanted to wait until next season to sign a dynamic goal scorer. Right player, close enough to the timeline.

If Ottawa wanted to contend this season, they would need a reliable top6 C, a complimentary 1st pair RD, and a solid 2nd pair LD, and that just gets them into the playoffs.

GIve the rookies a chance to develop. Stuetzle, Brannstrom, and Sanderson will get them into the playoffs soon enough, and Batherson, LBrown/Norris, Thomson/JBD, Balcers/Abramov/Formenton will get them deeper into the playoffs. I'm not going to list every Sens prospect here.

Just be patient, but...

If I did want to try for this season, I'd probably target Anthony Cirelli, Dante Fabbro, and Calvin De Haan, who aren't as good as Stuetzle, Brannstrom, and Sanderson, but this is about making the playoffs now.

oh yeah i even forgot florida

its not supposed to be realistic you are taking that way

He was dealing with a chronic back issue for 2 seasons but resolved that in the summer of 2018