In the offseason, fans, media, and hockey insiders label teams as winners and losers based on the moves (and sometimes the non-moves) of each individual team.
By all accounts, the Ottawa Senators were an overwhelming “loser” this offseason. There was the cyberbullying allegations levied at Mike Hoffman’s girlfriend by Erik Karlsson’s wife, and then the subsequent trades of both players to the San Jose Sharks (who flipped Hoffman to the Florida Panthers for arguably a better package return and causing the Senators to tack on a condition to picks in the Karlsson deal if he ends up in the same conference as Hoffman did).