Mind as well just go full on with the youth movement. Get rid of Del Zotto, Holden, Ennis, Sanford & Gambrell. Call up Ridely, Sokolov, Brannstrom, Lassi & Docker. And make a trade to bring back Spezza. He finishes where he started as he should.

Why?

Hey Csick, why is Ottawa so low in the standings? When my Sharks played there it was a tough matchup, maybe the toughest game of the year so far. Anyway, there is a bright future there.

Honestly, puck luck has played a role. In 3-4 games , they could’ve tied it or won but the puck didn’t bounce our way. Yesterday , Batherson hit the post in the last few mins, Tkachuk and Paul could’ve also tied it but they couldn’t finish.

But other than that, the loss of Pinto has been huge, he was playing like 20 mins a night. And also our defence besides Chabot and Zub hasn’t been able to move the puck , that should improve next year imo

Very poorly constructed team. Sens GM is a scout not a manager. He doesn't know how to manage assets (as you should know with Dahlen and Balcers) and doesn't know how to identify players that will improve his "team recipe"

Drake Batherson, Tim Stutzle, Josh Norris, Brady Tkachuk, Shane Pinto, Connor Brown, Alex Formenton, Nick Paul, Thomas Chabot, Artem Zub and Filip Gustavsson are all beauties. The rest are either stop gaps or replacement level. The young guys just don't have good veteran support outside of Connor Brown (which is awful GM work) which makes just winning a hockey quite the accomplishment. Very hard to win NHL games in the NHL today without at least 17-18 good players



Ottawa under-25 group is probably the best in the league though, but without proper ownership/management/coaching, they could actually screw it up (once again)