In the last twelve months, Ottawa Senators fans saw the club strip away at the core of players that had been established. The same core of players that had been one goal away from going to the Stanley Cup Final in 2017. Only four players remain from that playoff run: Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Bobby Ryan, Mark Borowiecki, and Craig Anderson. The rest of the players on that team have been jettisoned to other teams all in the name of a rebuild, most of them in the last year.
Last summer started with the team moving Mike Hoffman to San Jose in a trade that brought back underwhelming return.