It finally happened folks.
After weeks (months? years?) of speculation, the trade is finally a reality.
Matt Duchene is officially a member of the Ottawa Senators. Here’s how the deal shakes out.
Duchene to OTT. Turris to NASH with a 6×6 extension. COL gets Girard, Kamenev, Bowers, Hammond, a 1st (OTT), a 2nd (NASH) and a 3rd (OTT).
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) November 6, 2017
The first round pick the Senators are giving up is lottery protected. If it ends up as a Top 10 pick, the Colorado automatically gets the 1st round pick in 2019 instead. The 3rd round pick is in the 2019 draft.
Clearly, Pierre Dorion had to get pretty creative here and pays a reasonably steep price to make this deal happen. The Senators get the best player in the deal and hang on to their top prospects (which is huge) but while they protected their quality assets, they are losing multiple pieces in the trade.
Obviously losing Kyle Turris hurts but based on everything we had heard about the contract negotiations, that seemed sort of inevitable.
Turris immediately gets the long-term security he was looking for with the Nashville Predators. And while it obviously ends in disappointment, Sens fans will remember Turris as a reliable player on the ice and a pillar in the community. And what was always special about Turris is the way he elevated his game in the post-season.
In Matt Duchene, the Senators are getting a player that is a couple years younger than Turris and locked up for another season. They are also acquiring a player that should have the weight of the world lifted off his shoulders. Speculation has followed Duchene for close to two years now and he finally has his ticket out of Colorado.
You know he’ll be excited to get things started with the Senators.
And if you’re like me, here’s the official news release to prove the last couple hours wasn’t all a dream.
