With the dust settled on the trade deadline, where do the Senators go from here? FriedgeHNIC explores that and more in a new 31 Thoughts blog presented by GMCcanada.
“Ottawa was not getting any prospect better than him,” another exec said. “Even if you think they should have gotten a first-rounder , they still weren’t getting a better young player than that. No one was going to beat it.”
The other thing the Golden Knights held as an advantage was the feeling that if Stone was extending anywhere else at the deadline, it was in Nevada. I think if Calgary got him there, the Flames loved their chances of it eventually occurring. But word is Ottawa’s ask included In the days leading up to the deadline, everyone else in this race thought they were chasing Winnipeg. In the end, I don’t think the Jets made much of a push, if any. Stone was a pure rental for them, and they didn’t like the price. That hurt Ottawa’s ability to drive the market.My theory on the Stone negotiation with Ottawa: I think there was a time he’d decided he was going to leave.
But, in the end, I don’t think it was about the contract. It was about direction. Stone will thrive on a team that is going for it. A lot of people outside of Ottawa — or who aren’t Senators fans — look at the prospect base and feel they are in good position. You could make a really good case for why it made much more sense for them to trade Stone than keep him. But a fanbase with a total lack of consumer confidence in ownership is going to need proof.
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