While Stu was a great draft choice in 2020, this rebuild hasn’t really had a player who was a consensus building block player. If the struggles continue nabbing Shane Wright would be exciting. While it would be frustrating to still be 2-3 years away from being competitive, a centre prospect like Wright could be just what the doctor ordered.

The choices of centres around the league potentially available to bring in is honestly underwhelming and require you to already have some solidified centres. This team has one in Norris and he can’t even win faceoffs. For different reasons, Tierny, White, Pinto, etc are levels below of what you’d want in centers on a contending team.

Sens missed out on the likes of Dubois and Eichel, so unless they can trade for a centre in his prime for a reasonable price. Tanking, yet again, is looking like the best course of action. In the meantime, Dorion can still try to compile low risk trades to address the depth on the Sens at nearly every position expect left wing.

Nevertheless, will be exciting to see some Sens hockey again. Who knows, maybe the forced break will reinvigorate this team.
- Gord_Wilson_2.0

You nailed it! This team needed a massive building block at forward, a scoring winger or center!!!

Thomson had a great shot from the point earlier in the PP, he has a bomb of a shot! Nice to see Lassi get his 1st!

as long as melnyk owns the sens, they will be a bubble team at most, he will never spend the money to build a contender and he hopes for a cinderella run like MTL had last year or how they had in 2016-2017 within 1 goal of the finals.

as long as melnyk owns the sens, they will be a bubble team at most, he will never spend the money to build a contender and he hopes for a cinderella run like MTL had last year or how they had in 2016-2017 within 1 goal of the finals.
- Mithos

Oh, I'm sure he hopes for one of those runs, but you cant tell the fanbase 5 years of unparalleled success and spend to the cap, etc....then not do it.

Josh Brown left the game with an injured hand and hasn't returned.

12 min. into the 2nd period and still not not a shot on goal by Ottawa!

Gus standing on his head again! 13-0 shots on goal this period so far.

Can someone please tell Rob Faulds on Sportsnet that Tkachuk isn't pronounced Tkachooook....how a producer isn't in his ear telling him this is wild!

18-0 shots on goal at one point in the 2nd period, Gus saving Ottawa again!

5 goals on 15 shots! WOW!

Sanford a hat trick!!!

Look at top 15 players in the league in points right now:

01. Draisaitl - 3rd overall
02. McDavid - 1st overall
03. Ovechkin - 1st overall
04. Connor - 17th overall
05. Terry - 148th overall
06. Kuznetsov - 26th overall
07. Gaudreau - 104th overall
08. Marchand - 71st overall
09. Lindholm - 5th overall
10. Kadri - 7th overall
11. Svechnikov - 2nd overall
12. Stamkos - 1st overall
13. Duchene - 3rd overall
14. Nugent Hopkins - 1st overall
15. Getzlaf - 19th overall

medium:5th-7th pick. The Sens have only 3 players in the entire organization as top 7 picks: Tkachuk, Stutzle, Sanderson. Only the first two have a chance at being in the top 20 in scoring. The other two in the organization I can see being there are Batherson and Norris. The best possible models for cup winners are the Blues and Bruins. I think the Sens should get another top 5 pick this season, while developing Stutzle, Norris, Batherson, Pinto, Bernard Docker, Thomson, Formenton, and the others
- AlfieisKing

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Great info and thanks for posting!!!

Careful, there are some major-league snowflakes around here, who really can't handle seeing this kind of negativity written about the 2021 draft. In more positive draft news, the Senators have a couple of interesting lesser-discussed prospects in Sweden, who appear to be taking some major steps forward with Timra (SEL)...

C Viktor Lodin - 4th Round Pick, 2019
https://www.eliteprospect...layer/287856/viktor-lodin
- was somewhat written off after being arrested on drug-related-charges in 2020, but has apparently come back on a mission
- last year in the Allsvenskan he had 40pts/47GP, and this year has 11pts/14GP in the SEL to go along with 27PIM; plus he's a natural C
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DsmJksjoc (20/21 highlights)

W/C Oliver Johansson, 3rd Round Pick, 2021
https://www.eliteprospect...r/448922/oliver-johansson
- the first high-skill player taken in the 2021 draft has had by far the most impressive start to the year, with 14pts/14GP as a Jr, plus a 7GP SEL call-up
- not impossible that he could be in the WJC conversation for Sweden, and would still be eligible for the 2023 tournament

Hard to say if either player would be able to translate effectively to the NHL, but there could be some half-decent supporting talent there, much like guys like Crookshank, Daoust, etc.
- khawk

Its too bad Crookshank got hurt so bad during one of the rookie games!

Sportsnet gives Sens fans this guy for play by play tonight??? Yikes!
- Kevin Francis