Can you imagine if the Penguins traded Crosby and got a similar return? Rutherford would get canned.
Unfortunately, Dorion has 3 more years and is probably the cheapest GM in the league.

The Senators have become the Brooklyn Nets of the NHL

Will you please STFU with this non-stop drivel?! From what we can discern, you don't know jack poop, it's all sunshine and rainbows with you. Let us have our fire and brimstone, it's all that's left.
- sportsdataguy

Will you please STFU with this non-stop drivel?! From what we can discern, you don't know jack poop, it's all sunshine and rainbows with you. Let us have our fire and brimstone, it's all that's left.
- sportsdataguy

Well, it has been a number of very enjoyable years as a Senators fan, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take a break away from this team.

I've been a supporter since 2002 (I was 11 at the time), and it breaks my heart to have to give 'em up, but I can't support a franchise that isn't trying to win. No team trades a 28-year old generational player for nothing unless winning is not a goal of the franchise. The only goal is to save money for Melnyk. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I will follow the Senators prospects and young players with interest, and when Melnyk leaves/dies, I may return to the fold. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to be a Jets fan. If I can't really get into the spirit of that, I will probably just stop watching the NHL.

Well, it has been a number of very enjoyable years as a Senators fan, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take a break away from this team.

I've been a supporter since 2002 (I was 11 at the time), and it breaks my heart to have to give 'em up, but I can't support a franchise that isn't trying to win. No team trades a 28-year old generational player for nothing unless winning is not a goal of the franchise. The only goal is to save money for Melnyk. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I will follow the Senators prospects and young players with interest, and when Melnyk leaves/dies, I may return to the fold. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to be a Jets fan. If I can't really get into the spirit of that, I will probably just stop watching the NHL.
- Mr_Clean

Noooo clean

Well, it has been a number of very enjoyable years as a Senators fan, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take a break away from this team.

I've been a supporter since 2002 (I was 11 at the time), and it breaks my heart to have to give 'em up, but I can't support a franchise that isn't trying to win. No team trades a 28-year old generational player for nothing unless winning is not a goal of the franchise. The only goal is to save money for Melnyk. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I will follow the Senators prospects and young players with interest, and when Melnyk leaves/dies, I may return to the fold. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to be a Jets fan. If I can't really get into the spirit of that, I will probably just stop watching the NHL.
- Mr_Clean

No matter how bad it gets, I will never go all in on this mentality. The Sens will always be my number one team.

But, the other teams I like may get more attention. I've been starting to really like the Bruins and Gaudreau. Pasternak and Gaudreau are fast becoming my two favorite players.

Noooo clean
- AdamFrench

Does this make me a bad fan, Adam?

Well, it has been a number of very enjoyable years as a Senators fan, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take a break away from this team.

I've been a supporter since 2002 (I was 11 at the time), and it breaks my heart to have to give 'em up, but I can't support a franchise that isn't trying to win. No team trades a 28-year old generational player for nothing unless winning is not a goal of the franchise. The only goal is to save money for Melnyk. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I will follow the Senators prospects and young players with interest, and when Melnyk leaves/dies, I may return to the fold. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to be a Jets fan. If I can't really get into the spirit of that, I will probably just stop watching the NHL.
- Mr_Clean

Jets is a good team to rally behind.

Hughs going to look great in a COL jersey
- Holy_Makinaw99

All the losers from Toronto here to post garbage...

Yet start crying of anyone posts on their blog.

Sens will be fine. Got what they could for a guy who wouldn't sign long term anywhere else.

Well, it has been a number of very enjoyable years as a Senators fan, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take a break away from this team.

I've been a supporter since 2002 (I was 11 at the time), and it breaks my heart to have to give 'em up, but I can't support a franchise that isn't trying to win. No team trades a 28-year old generational player for nothing unless winning is not a goal of the franchise. The only goal is to save money for Melnyk. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I will follow the Senators prospects and young players with interest, and when Melnyk leaves/dies, I may return to the fold. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to be a Jets fan. If I can't really get into the spirit of that, I will probably just stop watching the NHL.
- Mr_Clean

Hey Leafs fans survived Harold Ballard...

Does this make me a bad fan, Adam?
- Mr_Clean

Probably, but I'm a guy who has a Joe Sakic Avs jersey and doesn't cheer for them

Guy on the 1200 is saying Demeo is a 6/7 d-man.

Like we don't have enough of them.

So, does anybody notice the salary compression of the last 12 months. Methot (4m), Turris (6.0m) Brassard (3.0m), Phaneuf (7.0m), Hoffman ($5.0m) Karlsson 6.5M) , Gaborik ($4.8m) to LTIR. There are others reductions with very few salaries coming back.

This is all about money. Kind of hard to get a fair hockey trade done when a team only wants picks and moderate salaries coming back.

Everything that is happening is consistent with cutting operational balance sheets. It is not about hockey values. It is about creating a new financial foundation.

Not sure that Duchene or Stone are going to be treated any different than Methot, Turris, Karlsson et. al. And, they will figure out a way to move Bobby Ryan.

Well, it has been a number of very enjoyable years as a Senators fan, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take a break away from this team.

I've been a supporter since 2002 (I was 11 at the time), and it breaks my heart to have to give 'em up, but I can't support a franchise that isn't trying to win. No team trades a 28-year old generational player for nothing unless winning is not a goal of the franchise. The only goal is to save money for Melnyk. Nothing else matters at this stage.

I will follow the Senators prospects and young players with interest, and when Melnyk leaves/dies, I may return to the fold. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to be a Jets fan. If I can't really get into the spirit of that, I will probably just stop watching the NHL.
- Mr_Clean

damn

All the losers from Toronto here to post garbage...

Yet start crying of anyone posts on their blog.

Sens will be fine. Got what they could for a guy who wouldn't sign long term anywhere else.
- kaptaan

Is this a serious post? Sens are a lot of thing right now, fine is not one of them.

Guy on the 1200 is saying Demeo is a 6/7 d-man.

Like we don't have enough of them.
- david22

He wasn’t even given a qualifying offer as a RFA by SJ because they knew they could just sign him cheaper as a UFA

Is this a serious post? Sens are a lot of thing right now, fine is not one of them.
- Sabres1523

He despises the Leafs so by association he has to defend this trade

All the losers from Toronto here to post garbage...

Yet start crying of anyone posts on their blog.

Sens will be fine. Got what they could for a guy who wouldn't sign long term anywhere else.
- kaptaan

It's so good this is happening to Spats and Dopps.

Only those two mind you. I feel sorry for the rest of the fanbase

How do the sens let players like chara.hossa.karlsson slip through their hands

So, where does Melnyk go from here?
- spatso

I'm assuming he'll go rehearse that press conference you swore was happening, where he was selling the team to Cirque du Soleil, and Alfie would come on stage to announce the extension of Karlsson.

How do the sens let players like chara.hossa.karlsson slip through their hands
- spazzbot

No matter how bad it gets, I will never go all in on this mentality. The Sens will always be my number one team.

But, the other teams I like may get more attention. I've been starting to really like the Bruins and Gaudreau. Pasternak and Gaudreau are fast becoming my two favorite players.
- david22

And I respect that. I was here on these boards for some pretty lean years, where the best part of the team was watching Volchenkov crush people, lol. It was fun supporting a mediocre team with a few other die-hards, enjoying the good moments even when they were few and far between.

To me, this is worse. I truly believe that Karlsson is only gone because the team didn't want to pay him, and made a choice. Not wanting to pay the best player in franchise history, trading him for dogpoop, that's not compatible with being a competitive franchise. I'm not interested in supporting a team that only (in my view) exists to serve Melnyk's financial needs.

And I respect that. I was here on these boards for some pretty lean years, where the best part of the team was watching Volchenkov crush people, lol. It was fun supporting a mediocre team with a few other die-hards, enjoying the good moments even when they were few and far between.

To me, this is worse. I truly believe that Karlsson is only gone because the team didn't want to pay him, and made a choice. Not wanting to pay the best player in franchise history, trading him for dogpoop, that's not compatible with being a competitive franchise. I'm not interested in supporting a team that only (in my view) exists to serve Melnyk's financial needs.
- Mr_Clean

I don't blame you, but you'll be back once Melnyk is gone.

Not possible. All the mortgage debt is controlled by the people wanting to move the Sens downtown. Big public meetings coming up on LeBretton. Look for the Melnyk role to be redefined with the finalization of the public financing.

I wonder if the push to move Karrlsson was so his status would not be a distraction from the redevelopment agenda of the next few months?
- spatso

Oh my God - I just realized it:

You are still a Leafs fan.

This is just the most magnificent troll job on Sens fans.

You are the franking man, Spatso!