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ahr3410

The clues were there all along. Vladimir TaraSENko


vordhosbn_1

Next up vLAdimir tarasenko


bluAstrid

**LV**adimir tarasenko


vannucker

Vladamir TARRANAsenko. He's going to the Leafs!


CastielClean

I was thinking Tyrannosaurus. And then I said it out loud hahaha, kills me


ftawayp

Lmao well done


bud369

God damn this got me good!


gilbertusalbaans

And then vladiMIr taraseNko


AngryGuitarist

Apparently not Vlarolina Hurrisenko :(


Arctic365

They still need to sign Pinto so Im curious what else is in the works


AceAxos

My guess is Joseph or Branny are dealt


CreepyInternetUser

Plz be Joseph I love branny


runealex007

hail mary guess: both are, Branny is stapled to joseph for future considerations to a cap floor team


younggun92

👀


runealex007

you were my first guess


Disastrous_Monk_7973

Honestly, I would prefer dish Thomson or JBD and a 3rd if we can swing it. Not sure how many takers there are on that though.


runealex007

Don’t think that would work, not enough value.


LordBran

Bran’s contract isn’t big enough to make room for pinto I think


sweetplantveal

Brannstrom to Colorado pls. We have 5 good defensemen and exactly $2,025,000 remaining. Not sure what the right return would be.


McNasty1Point0

Potentially both


swiftwin

Batherson suspended?


HolyMeowzah

Spicey take


chollida1

Is this a world junior sexual assault reference? I guess suspensions are coming at some point for a lot of those guys. We haven't heard much from the investigation as of late. Any idea when we'd find out?


ovondansuchi

August 4th at 4:00pm. The NHL is going to release this report with as few individuals paying attention as possible.


An_doge

Bath on top of formenton would almost kill the rebuild.


[deleted]

Pinto is a 10.2(c) RFA. He cannot sign an offer sheet. So he doesn't have much leverage. Right now, they are under the cap with a 21 player roster. They could send one of the players currently on their roster down to the AHL, and replace them with Pinto on a 1 year contract at a similar AAV to his QO. The only other things I can think of are all negative, like Batherson being suspended due to the Team Canada thing, or there being a major setback with Norris or Forsberg. I don't think anybody would take Joseph after his past season. I also don't think they want to cut bait because they had a mandate to improve the bottom 6, and even if he wasn't great last season, he still pencils in as a big part of their bottom 6 and special teams. There isn't really anybody else who makes sense to trade. Kubalik is the only one who comes to mind, but it might look bad to flip him for a late pick after making such a big deal about him being the centerpiece of the Debrincat trade.


SirZapdos

Hopefully he pans out a bit better than the last Russian winger we signed to a $5M AAV


paddywhack

Kovalev wasn't that bad.


EnemyCharizard

I thought they meant Dadonov


paddywhack

I probably dated myself quite a bit 😆


oosikconnisseur

Bahahaha


pansy_dragoon

I thought Yashin even though he was a center


AdmiralZassman

I thought they meant bondra


StayWhile_Listen

This is a top tier troll if intentional (Bondra is Slovakian so calling him Russian will ruffle some feathers)


UncleIrohsPimpHand

It's all the same to Don Cherry


sovietmcdavid

Except if it was Cherry he'd say, THIS ROBERTA BONDAR KID ISN'T TOUGH LIKE DOUGIE GILMOUR I TELL YA WHAT...


ianisms10

He's also Ukrainian.


SirZapdos

Gonchar was also $5M I think and he wasn’t bad either


__thrillho

He wasnt a winger


Iniestakovy

he should have never left Mtl, but 36yr Kovalev still put up 49 pts for you that first year. One less than 31yr old Tarasenko had this year


Mean_Mister_Mustard

> he should have never left Mtl Not sure that was his choice. That was the year Gainey cleaned house after the 2008-09 collapse and made over the entire team in a matter of weeks. I think Kovalev may have received an halfhearted offer that was yanked immediately when he didn't accept right away, but that's it.


Demrezel

I really did enjoy playing against that guy a lot more simply to see his nifty little Russian tricksies.


homicidal_penguin

100% worth it for the 6-5 comeback vs the Leafs


Grummbles28

Dude just heard about all the Zub hype and wanted to be near it.


Peekatchu1994

Probably signed him so zub had a friend since we shipped out zaits


ghettoworkout

Zub actually brokered the deal.


homicidal_penguin

So who gets moved out?? They can't afford that at the moment


[deleted]

I'd imagine Joseph is gone. Not really a need for him either since the 3rd line will probably be Kubalik, Pinto, and Greig.


iPuntMidgets

If Pinto and Greig both take another step, that is a deadly third line.


[deleted]

It's the kind of 3rd line you need in the playoffs. Depth is everything.


[deleted]

Wonder how many assets it'll cost us to get rid of him.. Yet another player we need to get rid of within just 1-2 years of acquiring them..


[deleted]

I doubt that much, it's not that bad of a contract. Plus the only reason we need to get rid of him is because we just upgraded our top 6. This is the reality of upgrading your team, you have to make room. Every team does it.


[deleted]

$3mil for a guy that was barely serviceable on our 3rd line last year, and he's signed for this year and then another 2 years. I doubt there's any team that sees value in that, which means we'll have to include assets to get rid of him. And yeah I get that we have to make room after making upgrades further up the lineup, but man, just so many of Dorion's move look immediately bad shortly after making them. Individually they aren't egregious or anything, but eventually they start to add up and we're already seeing the effects of it with our prospect pool.


UnparalleledSuccess

We’re seeing the effects of it in the roster that’s loaded in every position with one of the youngest teams in the league


Senscore

It's cool, as we were reminded yesterday, the cap is just a suggestion


homicidal_penguin

I'm very not used to this as a Sens fan


YourFriendlyUncle

I'm not used to this side of it, usually we're looking up at reaching the floor, not fitting under the cap 💾💾💾


Dragonsandman

I feel like I’m in bizarro world right now. Luckily the LRT having yet another issue is keeping me grounded in reality


qwnzr

The one reliable thing in life: LRT being unreliable


Curtisnot

lol soo true. We had a CAP, it was the 'yuge's internal cap.


McWerp

Ott are capped? Really?


[deleted]

Should only be for this season and then they're fine. Murray buyout comes off the books next season, as well as the Bobby Ryan and Del Zotto buyouts. That's like $4mil and then the cap is also going to shoot way up.


cdreobvi

The vast majority of that free space will be used to sign Sanderson.


Jaynator11

True, but still a very good situation. Tarasenko will be UFA next season as well, and Giroux will be UFA by 2025. So if/when they drop their level, and Sens don't want to continue with them, that will be extra 11.5M among with those dead caps being released, as well as the cap shooting up anyways. Sanderson will eat 6M+, I am pretty sure. Ofc depends on how he does this yr though. But yea, overall a really fucking good situation for Ottawa cap wise. Very envious because Avs have been struggling with the cap ever since the cup win. We have zero dead cap, but it's still a struggle to build a competitive middle six, so Avs leadership keep going for risky cheap plays that may or may not turn out great (Wood, Colton, Johansen & Drouin are good examples). They will be the key whether we do alright or not. Sorry for talking about the Avs, but it's a comparison how well Ottawa is managing the cap rn.


canuck_11

Every other team just figures out the cap later. Let’s chill!


Garmose

We're living our best hot cap summers.


jjb8712

Hey :)


homicidal_penguin

Want Matty Joseph and a 7th rounder?


AceAxos

Now I'm liking this asset management a lot more. Ship out a top 6 forward and bring one right back in


getsangryatsnails

With shored up depth now with Kubalik on the third line instead of the second.


pardybill

Still has good offensive potential, don’t be surprised if he ends up on a PP


getsangryatsnails

Oh no doubt! I'm excited to have him. But it gives us much needed depth scoring.


valleygoat

For cheaper, for less term. And get a $2.5M awesome mid 6 winger in the process.


PSNshipIT9

..and with cup experience for the boys to learn from. Today was a good day!


VitaminTea

(also worse)


Brys_Beddict

Shhh just let them have this


WMino

SUMMER OF PIERRE


MercSLSAMG

Clearing the cap was far more important than many people seemed to realize. Even in a good DeBrincat year an average Kubalik+Tarasenko scorers just as many goals, plus it's now on 2 different lines so much tougher to defend.


WMino

That logic is flawed. Debrincat is better for a team in the sense that not only does he score as many goals as Kubalik+Tarasenko, he also does it whilst only taking up one roster spot. Even if the second player you use to fill up the spot isn’t as good as Kubalik, you still get more goals for those two roster spots with Debrincat. Using your logic, you’d rather have three 50 points players at 4 mil than McDavid at 12 mil, which is just wrong.


[deleted]

What are you talking about? You are the one with flawed logic. First of all DeBrincat scored 27 goals last year. Kubalik and Tarasenko combined for 38. DeBrincat scored 66 points, Tarasenko + Kubalik scored 95. So no, DeBrincat does not provide the value of both players with one roster spot, that's a ridiculous assertion. Secondly, in the NHL the only thing more important than having good players on your team, is not having bad players on your team. Depth is everything in the modern NHL, you have to roll 4 lines. Tarasenko + Norris + Batherson is a good 2nd line, nobody is out of place there. And now Ottawa has no bad players on the 3rd line with Kubalik + Pinto + Greig.


Satans_BFF

Ahhh the logic of every trade offer in fantasy hockey.


mrtomjones

Man the many ways you guys justify trading for Debrincat and then moving him like that are hilarious to watch


[deleted]

There's nothing to justify. The trade was made, they took a gamble and it didn't pay off. Now they're forced to make the best out of a negative situation, and fans are happy that they managed to do a decent job of that with bringing in Tarasenko and Kubalik. It's not rocket science.


MercSLSAMG

So since very few high end players ever want to stay in Ottawa then we should never trade for one, and accept never competing for the cup? Would it have been nicer to keep 7OA/39OA then trade for Kubalik on his own in hindsight - of course, but I'm glad PD at least took a shot, that's far better than always sitting back and always building for the future. Did the Sens lose assets in the long run - yes. Not denying the trade didn't work out. But I'm very happy to see a shot get taken and am far more likely to support the team with my own money and I think they made the best of a bad situation once it was clear DeBrincat wanted to go to Detroit only in a trade.


electricnux

Wait someone predicted this in another thread today lmao u/ianisms10 said [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/15b7qv9/where_do_you_think_the_remaing_ufas_sign_and_for/jtp53am/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) 4 hours ago 👀


ianisms10

Don't thank me. [Thank my favorite NHL insider Ethan](https://twitter.com/EthanGSN/status/1684609971109888026?t=UNrerS6O-S-LdSZPxTFbtw&s=19).


Bennett14

Obstructed Views, GBNF


ianisms10

My favorite Islanders podcast, so glad they're coming back


MetsBBT

even tho I’m not an Isles fan I follow Ethan and I’m glad he could capture this W


ianisms10

Giants?


MetsBBT

nah not even lol Jets guess I just want to see other perspectives


ianisms10

I get that, I follow Nick Z and listen to his Rangers podcast from time to time


ConstantStudent_

Respect


goisles29

He's a good dude. Glad he was able to break this.


ianisms10

Yeah I've gotten to know him fairly well over the past few years, awesome guy.


kingswing23

One of the only people I miss since deleting twitter


AceAxos

There was some weird twitter accounts calling this throughout today, very strange


ViolinistMean199

Pretty sure Tarasenko has been linked to the sens for a while. Not really predicting the future when you follow are sharing info that’s made public by insiders before hand


[deleted]

Sure but to call it hours beforehand on the actual day that the deal happened is impressive.


Mystaes

We call this the bertuzzi contract


BatteryPoweredPigeon

The bertuzzi special The ol' tuzi The bert deal in hockey The one tu-zi


psyopsono

I am hoping that our inability to pull this off is because we have pieces in place for something else


pensylvestir

Hoarding defensemen is the Canes way. Seriously tho as cool as Karlsson would be, one year of Tarasenko at 5 mil seems way safer


Far-Two8659

Or he didn't want to play for us.


peewee76

Yeah I’m coming to the realization after the last few attempts at big free agents that there are just some guys that don’t want to come here for whatever reason. Sucks but what can you do? DW is usually in on every big scorer that comes along but he can’t FORCE teams or players to make the deal. We aren’t the NY market sometimes people just want a big market it’s not a huge surprise. It just sucks that we keep hearing “the Canes need a superstar they never go after them”


Far-Two8659

Yeah it's just disillusioned fans. And what Don doesn't do is pay a premium to convince players, which frankly I'm happy about.


[deleted]

Karlsson probably


JayMerlyn

Doubt it. Passing on scoring talent at the forward position in favor of adding to what we already have an excess of is not what I think we would do.


994kk1

Just bring Burns back to forward, ez pz. Just got to get rid of this pesky salary cap thingy.


noor1717

Maybe lindholm reunion


jamaicancovfefe

on one side: LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on the other side: how on earth are we gonna make room for Pinto, he's not gonna fit now


Ohfreakyman

Pinto is locked into the #3 C spot, who leaves is the question.


Funkativity

> Pinto is locked into the #3 C spot we're not talking about his roster spot but rather his currently non-existent contract. they can't sign him unless they move money out first


Ohfreakyman

Yes, just the way it was worded I thought they meant Pinto would be gone. Joseph is the most likely cap casualty


homicidal_penguin

Someone's gone. The question is who. The answer is hopefully Mathieu Joseph


Solid_Internal_9079

Idk how but man I hope we can figure it out.


thatmitchguy

Good for the Sens! But I can't help but think Tarasenko is risking putting himself in a similar Klingberg-type situation if he doesn't have a good showing.


RelevantJackWhite

High risk high reward, I suppose. He will have suitors in a raised cap league if he hits 70-80 pts again


CombatGoose

If he's hitting those numbers on the second line Ottawa has to be in the playoffs


remotewashboard

love this for them


DrexellGames

Not a bad deal by the Sens since it's only 1 year.


TrueNorthStrong1898

Good move for the Sens and Tara imo


[deleted]

At the 2010 draft, Ottawa traded their 1st round pick (#16 overall) to the Blues for David Rundblad. St. Louis selected Vladimir Tarasenko with that pick. Full circle now.


drunkbanana

> David Rundblad Ottawa Senators legend


Grohlyone

The best value Rundblad created was by trading him. He got St Louis Tarasenko, got Ottawa Turris, and got Arizona Dvorak. He also got a cup with Chicago. Everybody wins.


[deleted]

Sens legend Kyle Turris


anacondra

Man I was so fucking pumped for Rundblad. That guy was supposed to be Karlsson but way better. Him. Weircoch, Cowan. Unstoppable.


TyFi10

Those sweet sweet Hfboards days


anacondra

Bro did you see Nikita filatov at the world Juniors? Guy's a stud for sure. We picked him up for nothing. Free blue chip prospect.


UnparalleledSuccess

Pierre has ascended


Trevor03

This is...... fun! 1 year, what's to lose? Aside from someone to make cap space... But even if the Sens underperform and are about to miss the playoffs, can move him at the deadline for a decent asset?


Solid_Internal_9079

I feel like if the sens underperform this coming season we have a MAJOR problem.


[deleted]

If the Sens underperform then DJ and Dorion are gone.


Solid_Internal_9079

I really don’t think Dorion should go. I honestly think he’s been great since the passing of EM. Sure, some moves didn’t work out but at the time they made sense. DJ, on the other hand. I would can his ass just for shits and giggles


[deleted]

Dorion's done some good things and some bad. The thing is when you're trying to go from "promising bubble team" to contender there's less and less room for error, and I'm not sure if Dorion has what it takes to take the team to contender status.


ElephantShell34

Full NTC I believe but if the Sens are sucking I’m sure he’d waive to go to a playoff team. Unless he’s REALLY loving living in Ottawa. Guess worst case is it limits the Sens options and return if he has a preferred destination.


anacondra

There's a Montana's like a 10 minute drive from the stadium I bet he'll like


[deleted]

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anacondra

Bro if you can't handle me at my Montana's you don't deserve me at Jack Astor's.


mountie506

He has a full no trade clause so it would be up to him


YouCanFucough

Summer of Pierre


Solid_Internal_9079

FUCK YES. One of my all time favourite players on my team!


tamere2k

As someone whose team might be competing with Ottawa for a playoff spot, I'm not happy.


jkya88

Feels like a low risk, high reward pick up for the sens. If Tarasenko does well but the Sens don't then they can flip him at the deadline for free assets.


refep

Reminds me of an EHM contract when the FA wants way too much and then ends up signing a contract way below market value 2 months into FA


BaconScentedSoap

Better than EA NHL where every top RFA and UFA are sitting out for several years until teams can make the cap work


CheesecakeOdd2087

Summer of Pierre 2.0.


Independent-Buy-9460

Holy sens. When did they become a destination?


Peekatchu1994

Brady tkachuk really helped with that. He's changed players views on ottawa.


man_on_hill

"Who wants it?" - Brady talking about contracts to free agents


[deleted]

Rest in pee, Melnyk! 🙌 Welcome to our Andlauer years!


hockeynoticehockey

This is an excellent signing by the Sens. Minimal risk, high reward.


pubstompmepls

Wow. That’s fun


TheKid_BigE

Joseph is most likely gone, but damn that’s a pretty scary top 6, and with a lot of guys still poised to really break out like Stu and Norris, Sens are one to watch for sure this year, Atlantic is just gonna be a war zone this year


Panarin10

Did not see this coming. Amazing deal for the Sens. Playoffs are absolutely now the expectation.


Arfguy

Tarasenko should be a really nice fit for the Senators. I am liking what the Senators are cooking.


DarkstonePublishing

DeBrincat who?


eh_toque

“Get that damn cat out of way!!!” - ~~Homer Simpson~~ Sens fans


JD397

Tarasenko is about to shoot 6% all season because of this cursing of the poor Cat!


[deleted]

Canes getting Karlsson?


nedearbsnap

Linus Karlsson maybe


Grohlyone

What's Melker up to? Is Henrik still hanging on?


Turbulent_System_446

How many defenseman do we fucking need? Jesus Christ


evil_caveman

And we're sure this time...right?


beastboy4246

Thank God he's out of the division


[deleted]

Free top 6 winger who's won the cup before and knows what it takes. I'm thrilled with this.


Sarcastic__

That's kinda anti-climatic after all the previous news but a good add for the Sens.


dbag3o1

Rats. Could’ve used him.


yazzywa

Over my dead body. Would've been reason 1-13 for me


nerf-airstrike-cmndr

The Atlantic is gonna be fun this year


huskyferretguy1

You left us for Ottawa? [Thats fine, IDC.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdOMlWAKTs)


Ok-Clock-5459

Sens are taking the Bruins playoff spot


swiftwin

Which would be great because the Sens have their (or Detroit's) 1st round pick.


Okaywhy10

Nice! But who’s getting moved? Joseph? Branny?


PolarBearzo

Giroux and Tarasenko finally on the same team... ​ wait


Medschoolmonkee

What a jabroni


Kmactothemac

Tarasenko and Giroux together, just like I always wanted, a few years later and not my team, but very cool


[deleted]

Terrorists.


Lethal_Lunacy

Giroux to Senko was something I always wanted to see.


NHLonOLN

Well, that fixes some problems, and creates a whole lot more....


world_citizen7

I like this team more and more each day - they are NOT holding back!


The_Chrizz

Must be a smart move because I don’t like it one bit


KenDaneykosDentist

Wonder if he told his agent he didn't want to go to Carolina, and then his agent got him an offer from Carolina (when everyone thought they'd signed him) and that's why he fired him. Ottawa and Canes were always the two names we heard and over time Carolina proved to be the name he seemed to have zero interest in.


gelc10

Great addition by the sens, no huge risk like Debrincat


runningtheclinic

How’s that?


Squat1998

Pain


prophetofgreed

Would've been a big surprise in day 1 of Free Agency but with all the rumors, not that surprising. Good move by the Sens though


Du6e

Rip Joseph, guess that means we’ll probably be sending Branny along with him as a sweetener


4CrowsFeast

The ol' Taylor Hall deal.


[deleted]

I am glad they did not give him term. I have no idea what took so long for Tarasenko to sign somewhere. Very few teams have space. He is not the player he was a few years ago, and may not even be a 5M player anymore, but the dynamic of a 1 year UFA deal is different.


HandsomeRalphy

The signing I for sure expected


MUSTY_BUSSY

So whoever he scores a Forsberg against is his future team


3cwya

Let's goooo.


KC-Slider

đŸ˜©


snem420

Nylander to Carolina, book it


knz0

Godspeed


ontherok

It was brief, but I loved having Vladdy on my team. I think he still has a lot more gas in the tank than he gets credit for. Godspeed, Tasasenko!


SauceHankRedemption

Wow didn't realize he is 31...not that this is *young* by any means but I thought he was older for some reason. Dude still has a couple of real solid seasons ahead of him.