In the span of about seven months, the Senators have gone from being one goal away from a trip to the Stanley Cup final to being dogged by rumours that Eugene Melnyk might be close to selling the franchise and that organization may consider trading Erik Karlsson.
When general manager Pierre Dorion announced after trading for Matt Duchene that this trade was going to take the franchise to the ”next level”, this definitely wasn’t what he envisioned.
It’s been a crazy last few weeks and it all stems from what Los Angeles defenceman Drew Doughty had to say about the prospective terms of his next contract in an exclusive interview with The Athletic’s Craig Custance.