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Examining the Sens fall from grace

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Just wanted to show you just how bad the Sens management has been the last 5 or 6 years.

Lets start in 03/04 where I think the downfall started.

- Ottawa trades Brooks Laich and a draft pick for Peter Bondra

All Bondra does is put up 0 points in the playoffs and the Sens lose him for nothing. Brooks Laich goes on to be a solid player for the Caps.

- Ottawa trades Marian Hossa and Greg De Vries for Dany Heatley

Hindsight is 20/20 but Hossa was tremendous throughout his time in Ottawa. Looking back, Muckler should have just traded Redden like everyone speculated he would.

- Ottawa lets Zdeno Chara walk and resigns Wade Redden

Enough said right here. The worst move in franchise history I would say. They let a Norris trophy winning defensemen leave the organization for absolutely nothing.

- Ottawa trades Martin Havlat and Bryan Smolinski for Josh Hennessy, Tom Preissing, Michal Barinka and a 2nd round pick (Patrick Wiercioch)

The Sens get a whole lot of nothing in return for a guy who is a borderline superstar.

- Ottawa trades Patrick Eaves and Joe Corvo for Cory Stillman and Mike Commodore

I think they gave up on Eaves too quickly. He scored 20 goals in his rookie season and then never really gave him a chance after that. At the time of the trade, it was already apparent that Redden was probably heading out of town so why did Murray trade the only remaining defensemen who could quarterback a powerplay? Nobody really knows. Stillman and Commodore walk after the season is over. Sens lose both Eaves and Corvo for nothing.

- Ottawa loses Wade Redden to free agency

Okay, Redden is pretty bad now but he used to be a Team Canada regular. Losing him for absolutely nothing hurt the team quite a bit. Now both of the Sens all star defensemen are gone

- Ottawa trades Andrej Meszaros for Filip Kuba, Alexandre Picard and SJ's 1st round pick (eventually turned into Chris Campoli)

Not the worst trade on this list by far but Meszaros is thriving in Philly now. All we've really got to show from this deal is Filip Kuba, who is much worse then Meszaros. The whole rationale behind the deal was to clear cap space. What's funny is that Kuba was signed to a similar contract to Meszaros' a couple years later.

- Ottawa trades Antoine Vermette to Columbus for Pascal Leclaire and a 2nd round pick (Robin Lehner)

Vermette was never given a fair shake in Ottawa. There's a reason he had a career year the season after he was traded to Columbus. If the Sens had been more patient with him then he could have easily slid into the role of second line center. Something this team has NEVER had.

- Ottawa trades Dany Heatley to San Jose for Milan Michalek, Jonathan Cheechoo and a 5th round draft pick.

The Sens lose their best goal scorer for Michalek (who is very injury prone) and Cheechoo who is in the AHL right now. Management was really put in a bad situation but I think they were the ones that instigated it anyway.

- Ottawa signs Alexei Kovalev

Bad signing. Knew it then and it's even more apparent now.

- Ottawa lets Anton Volchenkov walk, signs Sergei Gonchar

Not what the Sens needed at all. Not after letting Volchenkov go. Someone like Zybnek Michalek would have been a much better signing. Hell, keeping Volchenkov would have been a better idea.


So you look at this list and its no wonder the Sens are no longer one of the elite teams in the league. I would argue that they've had the worst management in the league based on this list.
 
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And more recently Ben Bishop to the Lightning who has them in first place. But in all fairness who would have expected Ben to be so good and Cory C to be so so.
 
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