Not sure what the Sens thought about Beaudoin, or where there had him, though we kn ow that he is a type of guy the Sens love.
Saying that, we did have the tweet, which is now deleted seeing that Seidel , that tells us the Sens loved and were thinking of Beaudoin if Yak wasn't there.
Seidel at the time working as head scout and director of player personnel and beinf spoon fed known info directly from Marek, which Marek was canned for, definitely leads me to think there was a lot of merit behind the Sens liking Beaudoin comment.
I think it was Seidel speaking on his own behalf, I am sure they loved him, but I'd be willing to be a dump truck load of money he wasn't in talks for their 1st pick.