Making the Sens competitive but young

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Created by: adamorimoli61

Team: 2021-22 Ottawa Senators

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 23, 2021

Published: Jun. 23, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

This approach allows the Sens to stay young but be somewhat competitive this season. The trades made help stock pile the draft picks as well as moving on from players that won't be apart of the future in Ottawa. I don't think this team would be ready to contend next year but the improved cap flexibility allows them to make even more moves.

If Colin White doesn't bounce back in this lineup next year, then I would move him immediately. I would even throw in a sweetener (i.e. prosepct/pick) to get his contract off the roster since they have to sign RFAs in the next few years. The same for Zaitsev if possible but there probably won't be many teams willing to acquire him, and he has a modified NTC.
Watson should also be moved after next season, keep him around for now just for leadership/injury purposes.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Batherson, Drake	3	$4,250,000
Brown, Logan	1	$900,000
Högberg, Marcus	1	$900,000
Gustavsson, Filip	1	$1,500,000
Mete, Victor	2	$1,800,000
Tkachuk, Brady	6	$7,000,000
Fortunato, Brandon	1	$850,000
Davidsson, Jonathan	1	$800,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Reilly, Mike	3	$3,000,000
Tatar, Tomas	3	$3,900,000
Coleman, Blake	5	$5,000,000

Trades

OTT

SEA

Abramov, Vitaly [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

SEA selects Vitaly Abramov in the expansion draft.

OTT

2022 6th round pick (VAN)

VAN

Brown, Joshua

OTT

Fix-Wolansky, Trey
2023 3rd round pick (CBJ)

CBJ

Dadonov, Evgeni ($1,000,000 retained)

OTT

Fagemo, Samuel
Walker, Sean
2021 2nd round pick (LAK)
2022 3rd round pick (LAK)
2023 4th round pick (LAK)

LAK

Brännström, Erik

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeni Dadonov: $1,000,000 (40%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$73,021,750	$0	$4,482,500	$8,478,250

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tkachuk, Brady $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW UFA - 7	Norris, Joshua $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C UFA - 1	Batherson, Drake $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 6
Coleman, Blake $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 6	Paul, Nicholas $749,250$749,250 C, LW UFA - 1	Tatar, Tomas $3,900,000$3,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Stützle, Tim $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C UFA - 2	Pinto, Shane $925,000$925,000 ($600,000$600K) C RFA - 2	Brown, Connor $3,600,000$3,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Formenton, Alex $747,500$747,500 ($107,500$108K) LW RFA - 1	Tierney, Chris $3,500,000$3,500,000 C UFA - 1	White, Colin $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, RW UFA - 4
		Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chabot, Thomas $8,000,000$8,000,000 LD UFA - 7	Zub, Artem $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Gustavsson, Filip $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 2
Mete, Victor $1,800,000$1,800,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Walker, Sean $2,650,000$2,650,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Daccord, Joey $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 2
Reilly, Mike $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Bernard-Docker, Jacob $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) RD RFA - 2	Murray, Matt $4,687,500$4,687,500 G M-NTC UFA - 3
	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Norris, J.		Tkachuk, B.		Brown, C.
	Chabot, T.		Stützle, T.

Power Play 2
Tatar, T.		Paul, N.		Coleman, B.
	Mete, V.		Batherson, D.

Penalty Kill 1
	White, C.	Coleman, B.
	Reilly, M.	Zub, A.

Penalty Kill 2
	Tierney, C.	Brown, C.
	Mete, V.	Walker, S.

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:36 p.m.

csick

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No to the Brannstrom trade

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:37 p.m.

gavinray

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Give Brannstrom a few years and he's going to be a beast

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:38 p.m.

sensibleguy

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This isn’t it

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:38 p.m.

adamorimoli61

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Quoting: gavinray

Give Brannstrom a few years and he's going to be a beast

totally agree that he's going to be great but it really seems like DJ Smith is going to be bad for his development

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:41 p.m.

AnonymityTiger

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Didn’t Abramov sign in the KHL? Why would Seattle do that?

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:44 p.m.

adamorimoli61

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Quoting: AnonymityTiger

Didn’t Abramov sign in the KHL? Why would Seattle do that?

I didn't know that!

But regardless, it won't make a big difference to this team since the pick will probably be Logan Brown now. I don't think any of those two would make opening night lineup with this roster...

Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:48 p.m.

AnonymityTiger

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Quoting: adamorimoli61

Oh seriously no worries honestly. It’s not like it was breaking news. I’m sort of disappointed that he couldn’t crack it in the NHL. His skill set got me really excited in juniors. Just unfortunate.

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