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Created by: Pinto

Team: 2020-21 Ottawa Senators

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 10, 2021

Published: Mar. 10, 2021

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Looking more into Ottawa's salary structure, Pierre Dorion just loves overpaying for players.

Some of them are obviously irrelevant as they'll expire this year (Gudbranson, Stepan, Anisimov), but others are core players that are on deals that are too expensive for their level of play (White, Chabot, Dadonov). The hope is that they can grow their game to that level, but some bars are too high to reach (like asking Chabot to become worthy of an $8M deal). The reality of the Sens salary structure is that very few of their deals are actually appropriately priced, and even fewer are actually justifiably steals.

Based on their current level of play and their comparables, they should all be making less.

LW/LD/scratch is the player, C/RD/IR is the more appropriate salary based on the comparable in the RW/G/LTIR. Taxi holds the ELCs.

Chabot will be one Sens fans don't like to acknowledge, I'd guess, but he's been terrible this season despite strong point totals. He's a $7M offensive D but a $1M defensive D. Should probably be making $6M, but offensive D always make money. Can't wait until Tkachuk gets signed to a $9M deal or something ridiculously stupid when he only deserves ~$6.5M based on comparables.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dadonov, Evgeni	1	$4,000,000
White, Colin	1	$3,750,000
Anisimov, Artem	1	$750,000
Brown, Connor	1	$3,500,000
Tierney, Chris	1	$3,000,000
Dzingel, Ryan	1	$2,500,000
Watson, Austin	1	$1,500,000
Paul, Nick	1	$2,500,000
Zaitsev, Nikita	1	$2,750,000
Gudbranson, Erik	1	$1,750,000
Coburn, Braydon	1	$925,000
Reilly, Mike	1	$1,800,000
Brown, Josh	1	$750,000
Zub, Artem	1	$2,500,000
Wolanin, Christian	1	$900,000
Murray, Matt	1	$3,500,000
Daccord, Joey	1	$1,500,000
Hogberg, Marcus	1	$750,000
Peca, Matthew	1	$1,000,000
Stepan, Derek	1	$3,000,000
Nash, Riley	1	$2,750,000
Granlund, Mikael	1	$3,750,000
Dowd, Nic	1	$750,000
Eller, Lars	1	$3,500,000
Donskoi, Joonas	1	$3,900,000
Jarnkrok, Calle	1	$2,000,000
Hathaway, Garnet	1	$1,500,000
Nichushkin, Valeri	1	$2,500,000
Kuraly, Sean	1	$1,275,000
Ekblad, Aaron	1	$7,500,000
Chabot, Thomas	1	$7,000,000
Jensen, Nick	1	$2,500,000
Hagg, Robert	1	$1,600,000
Greene, Andy	1	$700,000
Stecher, Troy	1	$1,700,000
Harpur, Ben	1	$700,000
Cernak, Erik	1	$2,950,000
Jones, Caleb	1	$850,000
Korpisalo, Joonas	1	$2,800,000
DeSmith, Casey	1	$1,250,000
Husso, Ville	1	$750,000
Jenner, Boone	1	$3,750,000

Buyouts

Bobby Ryan: $3,583,333
Dion Phaneuf: $1,354,167

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
57	$81,500,000	$159,324,250	$0	$850,000	-$77,824,250

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Stepan, Derek $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Stepan, Derek $3,000,000$3,000,000	Nash, Riley $2,750,000$2,750,000
Dadonov, Evgeni $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Dadonov, Evgeni $4,000,000$4,000,000	Granlund, Mikael $3,750,000$3,750,000
White, Colin $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, RW UFA - 5	White, Colin $3,750,000$3,750,000	Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000
Anisimov, Artem $4,550,000$4,550,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Anisimov, Artem $750,000$750,000	Dowd, Nic $750,000$750,000
Brown, Connor $3,600,000$3,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Brown, Connor $3,500,000$3,500,000	Donskoi, Joonas $3,900,000$3,900,000
Tierney, Chris $3,500,000$3,500,000 C UFA - 2	Tierney, Chris $3,000,000$3,000,000	Eller, Lars $3,500,000$3,500,000
Dzingel, Ryan $3,375,000$3,375,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Dzingel, Ryan $2,500,000$2,500,000	Jarnkrok, Calle $2,000,000$2,000,000
Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000	Hathaway, Garnet $1,500,000$1,500,000
Paul, Nicholas $749,250$749,250 C, LW UFA - 2	Paul, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000	Nichushkin, Valeri $2,500,000$2,500,000
Peca, Matthew $700,000$700,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Peca, Matthew $1,000,000$1,000,000	Kuraly, Sean $1,275,000$1,275,000

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chabot, Thomas $8,000,000$8,000,000 LD UFA - 8	Chabot, Thomas $7,000,000$7,000,000
Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Zaitsev, Nikita $2,750,000$2,750,000
Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $1,750,000$1,750,000	Ekblad, Aaron $7,500,000$7,500,000
Coburn, Braydon $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD NTC UFA - 1	Coburn, Braydon $925,000$925,000	Jensen, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000
Reilly, Mike $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 1	Reilly, Mike $1,800,000$1,800,000	Hagg, Robert $1,600,000$1,600,000
Brown, Joshua $1,200,000$1,200,000 RD UFA - 2	Brown, Josh $750,000$750,000	Greene, Andy $700,000$700,000
Zub, Artem $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 1	Zub, Artem $2,500,000$2,500,000	Stecher, Troy $1,700,000$1,700,000
Wolanin, Christian $900,000$900,000 LD UFA - 1	Wolanin, Christian $900,000$900,000	Harpur, Ben $700,000$700,000
		Cernak, Erik $2,950,000$2,950,000
		Jones, Caleb $850,000$850,000

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Murray, Matt $4,687,500$4,687,500 G UFA - 4	Murray, Matt $3,500,000$3,500,000	Korpisalo, Joonas $2,800,000$2,800,000
Daccord, Joey $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 3	Daccord, Joey $1,500,000$1,500,000	DeSmith, Casey $1,250,000$1,250,000
Högberg, Marcus $700,000$700,000 G UFA - 1	Hogberg, Marcus $750,000$750,000	Husso, Ville $750,000$750,000

Taxi Squad
Tkachuk, Brady $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($2,500,000$2M) LW UFA - 1
Norris, Joshua $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($850,000$850K) C UFA - 2
Stützle, Tim $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 3
Batherson, Drake $736,666$736,666 ($0$0$0$0) ($20,000$20K) RW, LW UFA - 1
Brännström, Erik $863,333$863,333 ($0$0$0$0) ($450,000$450K) LD/RD, LW RFA - 2
Brown, Logan $863,333$863,333 ($0$0$0$0) ($710,000$710K) C, LW RFA - 1
Formenton, Alex $747,500$747,500 ($0$0$0$0) ($132,500$132K) LW RFA - 2
Abramov, Vitaly $730,833$730,833 ($0$0$0$0) ($82,500$82K) LW RFA - 1

Mar. 10, 2021 at 5:25 a.m.

Claesson4Norris

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I'll agree that Chabot's defensive game isn't where it needs to be, but I don't think it's entirely his fault, and I don't think it's holding him back from being an 8 mil defenseman.

Chabot has had no support his entire career, and as a result he has been massively overworked. Who's the best D partner Chabot has had? Probably Dylan DeMelo, and they really only had most of one season where they played together. After that it honest to God might be Cody Ceci, because his two other most common partners have been Ron Hainsey and Nikita Zaitsev. But just as important, who is the best Dman to play behind Chabot? Wolanin? Reilly? Borowiecki? Brannstrom has shown bits and pieces, but he's still just getting started. Nobody who you can point to and say "this guy is definitely a 2nd pair level defenseman" (though Brannstrom will definitely get there imo).

I think for the most part the answer to Chabot's defensive woes comes in the form of the good defensive core Ottawa is building. Once Chabot has a real, good D partner, and once they have guys capable of taking some of those minutes away from Chabot without the world ending, I think he will improve significantly. If you're able to scale back Chabot's minutes from the 25-28 minutes he gets a lot of the time to a consistent 23-24 minutes, I think the quality you get out of Chabot every night will improve immensely.

Mar. 10, 2021 at 8:46 a.m.

swinny

Joined: Mar. 2017

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Quoting: Claesson4Norris

100% agree.

Overplaying a D is detrimental. This is exactly what the Leafs did to Phaneuf. He was a guy that could handle about 20 minutes a game, and look good doing it. Instead, he got craptastic D partners and was playing around 24 minutes. It didn't work as we know.

Clearly, Chabot is more talented, but there is a track record of how overplaying D can stunt career growth.

And when Chabot's best statistical season was with Hainsey.... it speaks more than volumes on how the Sens habe failed to tap his real potential. Finding his Marc Methot should be a priority!

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