good luck keeping everyone you’ll need it

What a bad offer for Zub

So how about a 3rd round, Holl and Dermott and Ottawa flips one or both of them for additional picks or prospects. Someone will want Holl.

Sens aren't trying to be a development factory for other teams. What good are a smattering of mid to late round picks if you never convert to being actually good because you keep sending good players out the door?

Zub gives Ottawa quality defensive hockey for North of 20 minutes a night. He's their only established RHD who is any good. He's 26, so he lines up perfectly with the Sens competitive window. The Sens aren't trading Zub, it makes no sense at all, because they aren't replacing what he gives them without a massive price attached, if they can get it at all. Players like Zub are hard to find for a reason, and Ottawa isn't gonna just give him up. He's their most important Dman after Chabot and Sanderson.

The Leafs are under the cap this year, that isn't a problem. Not saying any of those trades go through....but if they did, how to pay for Reilly 2.5m raise and all those RFAs?

Ottawa won't gift wrap you Artem Zub for marginal pieces... Holl, Dermott, 3rd... that kind of pieces accomplishes nothing

Ottawa NEED Zub a million times more

And soup needs to be signed as well.
They’ll buyout Ritchie.
Keep only one of Mrazek or soup
And they’ll probably have to reluctantly move Kerfoot

Sens arent trading Zub and Whitecloud signed a long term extension

cbj pass

Ottawa isn’t interested in picks anymore, at least as a primary piece for a quality position player. They’ll take picks for the TDL UFA’s they will be trading off, but Zub is a semi-core piece. He’s also a fan favourite so the responders here are going to be a bit more possessive of him.

By the way, teams don’t want to acquire players they need to flip later.

Yeah about 14 mil in cap having to resign/replace 5 of your bottom 6, 1D, 2 other defensemen, and a goalie seems like a very tight window.