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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 9, 2020 at 2:13 a.m.
Thread: Hear me out
Voracek makes no sense with the timing of Ottawa's rebuild, and even if he makes less than his cap hit, that doesn't mean the Sens are "saving money", because they are spending money they don't need to on a player who doesn't fit at all with the timing for this team.

Ghost also doesn't make very much sense for Ottawa. The Sens have offensive/puck moving LD, what they need is a legitimate top 4 defender in the style of what Marc Methot was for Ottawa years back. Right now they have nobody who plays a Defense first game that is any good. Also your proposal of Gost-Zaitsev would be an unmitigated disaster defensively.

"Taking on" Gaborik's contract isn't really incentive for Ottawa to do anything. The Sens are trying to save money through the rebuild and operate with a low overhead while they are a basement team. To that end, Gaborik give the team nearly 5mil against the cap, with a cost basically a league min contract in real money.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 28, 2020 at 10:04 a.m.
Thread: Guy Im tired of seeing traded to Ottawa
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Green4D4Again</b></div><div>Some of them make sense though. Not saying all of them. But, it's the fact that nobody wants to pay the premium to move the guys with terrible contracts. Adding a B- level prospect and calling it fair is tiresome.

The ones that infuriate me the most are the ones with JJ involved.</div></div>

Fortunately, nobody is more infuriated by the prospect of a Jack Johnson trade than Jim Rutherford. He's not going anywhere.

But yeah, some of these players would potentially make sense, but it's the same guys all the time.

I've also just cooled on the idea of Ottawa taking on a bunch of cap dumps for picks and prospects. It's definitely a valid option, but unless they're getting fantastic value, which they likely aren't, it's probably not worth having a bad player in the lineup. I would rather see them use those roster spots for young guys and use this season as an evaluation year for young guys, to get a better sense of which players have a future in Ottawa or which ones can be traded or even exposed in the expansion draft.