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Senators Give Victor Mete Permission To Seek A Trade

March 12, 2022 at 12:18 pm CDT | by Brian La Rose 4 Comments

Senators defenseman Victor Mete has been a healthy scratch somewhat routinely as of late and as a result, TSN’s Darren Dreger reports (Twitter link) that the team has given his agent Darren Ferris permission to speak to teams in an effort to facilitate a trade.

The 23-year-old was claimed off waivers from Montreal near the trade deadline last season and played a largely regular role for them down the stretch.  That paved the way for the Sens to avoid arbitration with Mete as they agreed to a one-year, $1.2MM contract back in August.

However, things haven’t gone as well this year.  Outside of a four-game stint in COVID protocol, Mete has been healthy all season but has played in just 31 of 57 games in 2021-22.  When he has been in the lineup, he has basically been entrenched as a sixth defenseman and accordingly, his 14:56 ATOI is a career low.  With a $1.2MM qualifying offer owed with salary arbitration eligibility again this summer, Mete currently stands as a possible non-tender candidate.

Despite his struggles, Dreger reports that there is some interest in Mete’s services, likely in the form of a draft pick coming the other way.  If Ottawa was willing to retain half of his contract, that would lower the AAV for an acquiring team to just $600K or less than the league minimum.  For cap-strapped teams wanting to add some low-cost depth, such a move would certainly make sense if Ferris is able to help facilitate a move between now and the March 21st trade deadline.

Ottawa Senators Victor Mete

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Batherson Won't Play On Homestand, Decision On Pinto Returning Or Not Expected In Next Couple Of Weeks

March 12, 2022 at 11:55 am CDT | by Brian La Rose Leave a Comment

  • Although Senators winger Drake Batherson has returned to practice, he won’t play in Ottawa’s current five-game homestand, relays Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch. The 23-year-old has averaged over a point per game this season with 34 points in 31 games but hasn’t played since late January when he suffered a high ankle sprain.  Meanwhile, Ottawa expects to find out in the next couple of weeks if center Shane Pinto will be able to return at some point this season.  The rookie was expected to be a big part of their lineup this season but a shoulder injury has limited him to just five games so far.

Boston Bruins| Montreal Canadiens| Ottawa Senators| Toronto Maple Leafs Drake Batherson| Jake Allen| Matt Grzelcyk| Shane Pinto

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Senators Notes: Sanderson, Murray, Forsberg

March 11, 2022 at 2:30 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee Leave a Comment

The Ottawa Senators are expecting Jake Sanderson to join them after his college season ends. While that isn’t much of a surprise given how NHL-ready Sanderson has appeared this season, general manager Pierre Dorion confirmed to reporters including Bruce Garrioch of Postmedia that he and VP of player development Pierre McGuire both recently went to have dinner with him in Grand Forks.

Tyler Kleven, Sanderson’s teammate at the University of North Dakota, has also been invited to come to Ottawa after the college season. The NCHC quarterfinals kick off tonight for UND, where they’ll take on Colorado College. Both would need entry-level contracts before suiting up for Ottawa.

  • In more disappointing news, Dorion explained that Matt Murray won’t be back anytime soon. Murray has had a very up-and-down season including a stint in the minor leagues, but actually has his best save percentage in three years. An injury now is terrible timing for the veteran goaltender, as he tried to get his career back on track. He’s now out with an injury while sitting on a six-game losing streak.
  • With Murray out, it means that Anton Forsberg will have to carry a good chunk of the goaltending load down the stretch, meaning he’s now basically off the trade market. Dorion explained that he wants Forsberg to stay for the rest of the year and actually suggested that the Senators will be very quiet at the deadline in general.

Injury| Ottawa Senators Anton Forsberg| Jake Sanderson| Matt Murray (b. 1994)

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Senators Send Dillon Heatherington To AHL

March 8, 2022 at 9:51 am CDT | by Gavin Lee Leave a Comment

  • The Ottawa Senators have reassigned Dillon Heatherington to the AHL, after he failed to get into any games on this most recent recall. The veteran minor league defenseman last played for Ottawa in December but continues to be a depth piece that’s recalled as injury insurance. He has zero points in nine NHL games this season.

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Matt Murray Placed On IR

March 6, 2022 at 7:55 pm CDT | by Brian La Rose 6 Comments

  • The Senators have placed goaltender Matt Murray on injured reserve, CapFriendly reports (Twitter link). He had a tough outing against Arizona on Saturday, allowing all eight goals but played the full game.  Anton Forsberg will take over as Ottawa’s starter for the time being while Filip Gustavsson was brought up from AHL Belleville earlier today.  Forsberg has been speculated as a possible trade candidate but if Murray is out for an extended period of time, that could change.

Buffalo Sabres| New York Rangers| Ottawa Senators| Pittsburgh Penguins Alex Tuch| Casey DeSmith| Jason Zucker| Matt Murray (b. 1994)

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Senators And Nick Paul Not Close On Extension

March 4, 2022 at 9:00 pm CDT | by Brian La Rose 6 Comments

The Senators and pending UFA forward Nick Paul are not believed to be close on a contract extension, reports Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli.  Ottawa’s last offer was reportedly a three-year deal with a $2MM AAV, a bit of a raise on his current $1.35MM cap hit.  However, with him being on pace for a career year and the market for players that can play down the middle being strong, that isn’t the type of offer that’s going to make it worth not testing free agency.  Seravalli adds that there has been little contact between the two camps in recent weeks.  If they can’t reach an extension, the 26-year-old should be on the move by March 21st.

Buffalo Sabres| Detroit Red Wings| Ottawa Senators Jakub Vrana| Nick Paul| Vinnie Hinostroza| Zemgus Girgensons

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Michael Del Zotto Drawing Interest

March 4, 2022 at 9:10 am CDT | by Gavin Lee 5 Comments

When it comes to the Ottawa Senators and the trade deadline, most point to Nick Paul, Chris Tierney, and the rest of the pending unrestricted free agents as the most likely targets. But there is another name, buried on the organizational depth chart, that should always be considered a trade candidate at deadline time. Michael Del Zotto, who has been traded three other times in his career, is drawing calls from around the league according to Bruce Garrioch of Postmedia.

Signed to a two-year, $4MM contract last July, things haven’t worked out for Del Zotto in Ottawa, where he has played just ten games this season. Instead, he’s spent most of the year in the minor leagues with the Belleville Senators, racking up nine goals and 22 points in 20 games for the minor league club. It’s something of a new experience for the 31-year-old defenseman, who stepped directly into the NHL in 2009 and stayed there, save for a brief 11-game tenure more than a decade ago.

In all, Del Zotto has more than 700 games of NHL experience and could still be a valuable depth addition for a contender looking for defensive help. The fact that he can still run a powerplay would give him a utility factor as an extra player, something that obviously attracted the St. Louis Blues in 2019 when they added him prior to their playoff run. Del Zotto wouldn’t end up playing for the Blues in the postseason, but his name is still on the Stanley Cup, a nice reward for the seven total games he played for the franchise.

It will be interesting to see what kind of market there would be for the veteran defenseman, given he’s signed through the 2022-23 season as well. That contract carries a cap hit of $2MM, meaning to even trade him the Senators may have to be willing to eat some of the remaining money. But for a contender trying to squeeze out value at the margins of a roster, you could probably do worse than a player with his level of experience.

Ottawa Senators Michael Del Zotto

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Extension Talks Not Progressing With Nick Paul

March 2, 2022 at 2:38 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee 3 Comments

  • The Ottawa Senators have opened extension talks with Nick Paul, but David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period tweets that those discussions haven’t progressed very far. The Paul situation is an odd one, given the fact that an extension with Ottawa shouldn’t be that complicated for a player with a career-high of 20 points, and will certainly conjure memories for Senators fans of the situations Mark Stone, Kyle Turris, and Erik Karlsson faced before ultimately being traded out of town.

Ottawa Senators| Seattle Kraken| Snapshots Alexandre Texier| Filip Zadina| Kasperi Kapanen| Nick Paul| Ron Francis

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Senators Recall Dillon Heatherington

March 1, 2022 at 8:49 am CDT | by Gavin Lee Leave a Comment

  • With some Ottawa Senators dealing with the flu, the team has recalled Dillon Heatherington from the minor leagues. Heatherington, 26, has played in nine games for the Senators this season but is still looking for his first career goal. The big 6’4″ defenseman had 18 hits in those nine games, despite playing just a handful of minutes in each.

AHL| Nashville Predators| Ottawa Senators

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Colin White To Make Season Debut Tonight

February 26, 2022 at 10:39 am CDT | by Brian La Rose Leave a Comment

Senators center Colin White will return to the lineup tonight against Montreal, relays Ian Mendes of The Athletic (Twitter link).  The 25-year-old suffered a dislocated shoulder at the end of training camp and has yet to play this season as a result.  Now three seasons removed from his 41-point campaign in 2018-19, White will likely spend time at both center and the wing as Ottawa looks to find what his ideal role for next season and beyond will be.

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