As the Senators approach their 30th anniversary in the NHL and the 2022 draft, one glaring feature stands out above all: Ottawa's inability to draft, develop and keep starting goaltenders. (By HockeyScanner)
Over the course of 30 drafts between 1992 and 2021, the Senators have selected 241 players, and just 23 were goalies. That adds up to Ottawa picking goalies about once out of every 9.5 picks. In 11 of the 30 drafts, the Sens did not pick a goalie.
“We kind of went through the whole gamut to better understand — how do we have more success and the one thing we did find is that we didn’t pick frequently enough,” Mann says. Mann points to the brief period during which the Senators had three titans trying to share the same crease: Ben Bishop, Robin Lehner and Craig Anderson, from 2012 until the 2013 trade deadline. Bishop was the odd man out and went on to a lengthy career with Tampa Bay and Dallas. Lehner was dealt to Buffalo in 2015.
The point from Mann is this: “goalies tend to work out on their second or third team because now they’re at the age where they’re ready to play in the NHL. Janecyk was also a factor in selecting Joey Daccord late in the 2015 draft. Daccord was taken by the Seattle Kraken in the expansion draft. Whether the team drafts or trades for a young goalie, they must be handled with care, Dorion says. The Senators feel they have two strong goalie coaches in Zac Bierk and Justin Peters .
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