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Management UPDATE: Steve Staios GM and POHO, Dave Poulin Senior VP of Hockey Operations

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robsenz said:
All good you'll compltely forgot they were ever on this roster in no time.
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Amadio and Cousins yes, I think Perron stays just because it’s close to home and I think he still can be a 4th liner for another year. Maybe even give him an A.
 
Same hell we were in when the current iteration of "the rebuild" started. Had to give up a 1st (4th overall pick) in year 1, just like we'll have to give up a 1st this season or next. In other words, we're handcuffed from the very beginning... Again.

That and so many missed/wasted opportunities, signings and trades set us back years. E.G. Detroit trades long-time player Tatar (underperforming with 28 pts in 62 games) to Vegas and lands a 1st, a 2nd and a 3rd. Montreal trades their captain to Vegas (locker room friction + declining performance at the time already) and lands Suzuki. Ottawa trades their future captain to Vegas (best two-way winger in the league, well respected with an incredible brain and stick). They land Brännström.

This organization genuinely feels cursed and where other fandoms seem to get enjoyment out of the teams they support, Ottawa feels like nothing but a bane. When you actually detach and watch this team play with (somewhat) neutral eyes, you can tell the players don't care. Not one bit. Most of the core got paid before they accomplished anything in the NHL and few won any major team championship in their respective junior leagues. All they know is well rehearsed lip service. They all say they want to win, yet play nothing like individuals or a team that wants to win. Just try watching other bottom dwellers. They lose out of a lack of talent, rarely a lack of will. It's the complete opposite with us.

Players that have had meaningful team or individual success in the NHL come to Ottawa, suck, leave with statements hinting at something being rotten in Denmark, then go on to resume their stellar play with other organizations. It's a damning indictment of the culture built around and fostered by the Tkachuks and Chabots in the nation's capital.

Let alone cohesive team play, even an honest, consistent 60 minutes effort is too much to ask for this iteration of the Sens. They seldom start on time because "the other team has a say...". When they do feel like it an press at the end, "the goalie made the saves". When they're not tired, they're injured. And when they're not injured, they "didn't get the bounces".

Spell the word "expectations", even with the bar set as low as it can be and the whole team implodes. However, the second there's nothing left on the line, it's all loosy-goosy and buddy-buddy with rehearsed lip service about the future.

It starts at the top and our captain is an immature child that was handed everything from day 1. Alfie, Spezza, Karlsson, Tkachuk. One of those is not like the others. No coaching has ever truly held this group accountable and no management group has had the backbone to truly bring forth meaningful change. it's all been work around the periphery, with often mediocre results.

"The envy of the league", "FYOUS", "Best in class", always sweet promises with nothing to back them up when time comes due. Yet you're expected to commit time and money and be happy about it all.

Yesterday vs LA was the first time in a while the game was on, but I couldn't force myself to consistently watch it, wire to wire. That's because the outcome was clear from the moment and the way they came out at puck drop. It's the same sickening movie. It's been the same sickening movie for as long as this core has been together. If there was a way to truly detach, give up and turn in the fan card, I would. This fanbase seems to care more about it all than coach, management and especially the players. Yet, at this point in time, the fanbase is the one entity that would be served better elsewhere with its time and money.
 
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My Staois grades so far:
A+ / Gaudette signing
A / Yakemchuk pick
A- / Ullmark trade
B+ / Chychrun/Jensen trade
B / Gregor signing
B- / Pinto bridge deal
C+ / Ullmark signing (need more time for this one)
C / Tarasenko trade
C- / Cousins signing
D+ / Green hiring
D / Perron signing
D- / Amadio contract (after unloading Joseph)
F / Not firing DJ Smith right away
 
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not impressed so far. Said all summer that we should be adding a center as young centers struggle and we needed another defensemen. We traded a pick to get rid of Joseph to add Amadio? That's a Dorion special
 
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I see a lot of mentions of names Chychrun, Joseph, Brannstrom, etc. Hard to get on board with them as solutions when the team sucked with them just the same, arguably worse if going by the underlying numbers. Doesn't feel like a solution to have just hung on and run it back, but maybe I'm wrong. Definitely have to eat some crow on SS's decisions this summer, it looked reasonable to me. Amadio has almost doubled Joseph's goal pace over the last 3 years prior to this one, including exceeding that pace in the playoffs. It didn't seem that insane and the Amadio signing thread is full of praise at the time. He has cratered in Ottawa.
 
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Sensinitis said:
I do think if our bottom pair was Kleven-Brannstrom we would be better off.

Especially now that Zub is injured, we've seen Brann step up in the past and he would have been able to play up the lineup.

Waste of an asset imo.
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We weren't going to qualify him at $2M, or whatever it exactly was. And once he was a free agent, I don't think there was any way he was coming back to Ottawa. The guy needed to be in a different market without the proudest day/Mark Stone cloud over him.
 
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Senator Stanley said:
We weren't going to qualify him at $2M, or whatever it exactly was. And once he was a free agent, I don't think there was any way he was coming back to Ottawa. The guy needed to be in a different market without the proudest day/Mark Stone cloud over him.
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hes easily worth 2mill. Obvious move was to buy out Hamonic and use the Perron salary more wisely to beef up the defense.

As a bottom pairing guy he is better than whatever we are putting out on a nightly basis. Even if you don't like Brannstrom going into the season by handing Kleven a spot just doesn't make a lot of sense esp with JBD and Hamonic being his pairing options
 
Sensinitis said:
I do think if our bottom pair was Kleven-Brannstrom we would be better off.

Especially now that Zub is injured, we've seen Brann step up in the past and he would have been able to play up the lineup.

Waste of an asset imo.
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He cleared waivers on a league min contract can we please let this die
 
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The problem is that after 8 years of rebuilding we have exactly one good NHL defenceman that we acquired via trade/UFA signing on this roster.

No one would ever be talking about Erik Brannstrom again if there is an ounce of competence here. He’s never been what we need and he’s still not.
 
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PlayOn said:
The problem is that after 8 years of rebuilding we have exactly one good NHL defenceman that we acquired via trade/UFA signing on this roster.

No one would ever be talking about Erik Brannstrom again if there is an ounce of competence here. He’s never been what we need and he’s still not.
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The idea we can draft our way out of our problems is insanity. Need major surgery to this roster
 
Just so Staois knows where I’m coming from as a fan:

I want to see a dominant hockey team. I want multiple seasons of playoffs, I want franchise records broken, I want the Jacques Martin era 2.0 with a better net front presence and a happy ending, I want Bryan Murray passion from the bench, i want real progress on the arena, I want a parade.

Yes I want to make the playoffs this season, yes 6 of the last 7 years aren’t on you, but as a fan I had a deal with the rebuild that it would pay off and I want a return for my time and money as a fan. I want hardware
 
Bjornar Moxnes said:
We should have kept Joseph, not sign Perron, and trade our 3rd for Fabbro.
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Joseph has 4 pts in 16 games, I don't really think moving on from him was problematic, as for Perron, with what he has been going through, I'm willing to give him a bit more leash before making judgement. I liked his game before he took the leave of absence even if he wasn't scoring, he was involved on the forcheck and the line seemed to be getting it's chances. 0 pts, though one assist was robbed by a dumb ref.
 
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Well, if we don't want Staios in both the POHO and GM role, then who out there is capable of being a good upgrade in the GM position (and available)? Just a quick look around, and I don't really see any strong candidates at the moment.
 
Tuna99 said:
Just so Staois knows where I’m coming from as a fan:

I want to see a dominant hockey team. I want multiple seasons of playoffs, I want franchise records broken, I want the Jacques Martin era 2.0 with a better net front presence and a happy ending, I want Bryan Murray passion from the bench, i want real progress on the arena, I want a parade.

Yes I want to make the playoffs this season, yes 6 of the last 7 years aren’t on you, but as a fan I had a deal with the rebuild that it would pay off and I want a return for my time and money as a fan. I want hardware
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its not his to give Tuna.

What you want, you will not get. The hockey world is in transition. The Millennials are moving on/out. It is leaving the GenZ's. And they are proving to be unreliable.

And so Staios has little control over outcome. No one does.

Most teams that have done well the last 3-4 years, and are doing well this year, are loaded with back end Millennials (28-34 year olds). Most teams that are not doing well, are loaded with front end Gen Z's (21-27).

So, what happens as the next 2-3 years go by is unknown. Do front end GenZ's fill the void and dominate, or do they get bypassed by the backend Gen Z's (21 and younger).

This happened in Tennis. The ATP tour. Players aged 24-30 got skipped right over. The old guard (Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, Murray.. all above 35 today) ate everyone's lunch. Today, we skipped to Sinner, Alcaraz. All younger than 24. Heck even Djokavic won the Olympic gold in Paris. Age 37.

The same happened on the women's side (WTA). The 24-30 year olds where largely skipped over.

Ottawa is front end GenZ's. Will they win, or will they get passed over?

Steve Staios and every other NHL GM is now in glide mode, Waiting for things to settle to see how it will shake out.
 
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