I think we needed to move him to have that leadership change. I think Bo mastered the art of looking like a captain from the outside but actually not doing anything to influence the culture. There is a don’t give up attitude that Hughes and Miller has foster that simply wasn’t there with Bo. This is just personal opinion
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I tend to agree. If anything else, we needed a culture shift and a "wake up" moment. It's hard to fault Horvat given the disaster of a team we were back then but I don't think he was the best captain. Or rather, Miller and Hughes are simply a better duo.
I agree that management may have decided they wanted a big culture change rather than believing the player was unsalvageable (although his contract demands probably had a lot to do with it).
IIRC they fired Boudreau and traded Horvat all within a week? That's quite the shift in a short amount of time.
Considering the majority of his body of work to date, trading Pettersson seems outlandish; though i can see it happening and if the nosedive in play over the last 50 GP is knee related and this is a player who can't maintain a high level of play through pain/discomfort , maybe it should.
If it's not really the knee and he's still sour because of how management orchestrated the contract extension by threatening to trade him, it's a potentially disastrous trade in the making (depending on the return obviously). Easy to dismiss this idea, but Pettersson sulking due to the business side of the game has happened before.
The two destinations i could see happening are Columbus and Anaheim.
Brady plays on the wing i believe, but I'd still do this trade in a picosecond. A year ago i would have said there is no way Ottawa management could possibly be that stupid, but then they hired Travis Green, so anything is possible.
Apparently Seravalli saying Allvin is already making calls on defensemen
Two reasons. He didn’t want to be there and extension talks were going nowhere. The other is that he’s actually pretty damn bad defensively. As always +/- isn’t a universal stat but it does well when comparing players on their own team. His -30 was the lowest among Senators defensemen and he wasn’t even close. The net closest was Hamonic at -10.
If Pettersson getting moved is a real possibility, I would look at NYR. It's been reported that Trouba and the team both understand that this is his last year with the team, so changes are already on the horizon. Shesterkin needs his new contract and Panarin the year after. They might be one of the only high-caliber teams interested in a big move.
Zibanejad hasn't been a consistent producer for them and has come under scrutiny for a while. He could be someone they look to move in a shakeup and would be a replacement 2C for us. I'd be very interested in K'Andre Miller as well who needs a new contract. Kakko could be a good addition to a deal as well.
Zibanejad hasn't been a consistent producer for them and has come under scrutiny for a while. He could be someone they look to move in a shakeup and would be a replacement 2C for us. I'd be very interested in K'Andre Miller as well who needs a new contract. Kakko could be a good addition to a deal as well.
That would be an epic blockbuster trade culminating in us winning a rematch of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals.
Because he couldn't play the right side, and they didn't have the money to keep him as LD3 and improve the right side at the same time. No clue why they traded for him in the first place if they we going to put him on the right when he had only played the left his whole career. He was bad last year but some of that was because they basically pigeonholed into playing the right side.
On a side note I still remember people here and pundits were panning the Hronek trade but loved the Chychrun deal which never made sense to me.
Chychrun also went through that amusing transition from a U25 player who is 'OMG so exciting! Unlimited potential!' to having his 26th birthday and the hockey world universally overnight going 'Oh, this is what he is and he'll be like this forever'.
When you're 24 and can't play leverage D everyone will think they can fix you. When you're 26 and can't play leverage D ... bye.
If CGY offers up Rasmus Andersson for two playoff runs at 50% retention (2.25MM) he will get an absolutely mammoth package.
They can absolutely justify making a trade for a guy like that if Emil Pettersson leaves and we get last 40 games 22/23 Elias Pettersson back and a healthy Demko performing again.
Until they know those things, there's zero value in making a big swing. Zero. A Zadorov type move? Fine. Do that now if there's something that arises.
Until they know those things, there's zero value in making a big swing. Zero. A Zadorov type move? Fine. Do that now if there's something that arises.
I mean that's not really news, i thought the assumption is that he is always calling teams to see what trades are available.
It was also his last point in the interview and was said in a very "obviously they are doing this" tone. Every insider always points out how aggressive Allvin has been.
That's his best characteristic and the one that most marks the change between this group and the previous one. Benning worked in big, emotionally resonant concepts -- big guy, speed, we need this, good teams have this, etc -- because on some level he thinks that's how the world works, which I think ties in to how detached he seemed as a person and in conversation. And once he'd put that concept where it was supposed to go in his mental picture of his environment, that was it. He could rationalize huge practical errors because the "important" things were done. Whereas Allvin and JR are to all appearances alert and ready to do their jobs at all times, which isn't a crazy expectation.
They could start a massive bidding war just by playing Edmonton and Vancouver off of each other.
I think Dallas will be a major player for a cost controlled RHD. They are running Dumba/Lybushkin/Smith right now and their window is wide open.
