Steve Staios has a reputation as being a patient man. You gotta earn a nickname like Steady Steve.
Yet has we have seen in various times during his tenure in Ottawa, he’s not afraid to make a splash. Splashy Steve just never caught on the same way though.
And that is part of the excitement heading into this year’s Trade Deadline.
Thanks to a big win last night in Calgary coupled with a Bruins loss in Nashville, the Ottawa Senators are officially IN the playoff race. A once insurmountable gap is now down to just four points and the timing could not be better.
The Sens have been loitering right on that bubble between buyer and seller and with that win last night, it’s safe to say that the Senators could do a little bit of shopping on Deadline Day.
They got to work early yesterday.
In acquiring Warren Foegele from the Los Angele Kings and shipping David Perron to the Detroit Red Wings, we get a good sense of where Staios and the Sens brass are at heading into the day – willing to shop if it helps for a playoff push this year and beyond and open to moving out expiring deals if it adds an asset and mostly leaves the current roster in tact.
As is tradition around these parts, updates will appear at the top of the article and in the comment section below. The Senators are pretty hard to track these days in terms of potential transactions but maybe they have a surprise or two in store. Sneaky Steve?
We shall see.