New York Rangers: A Look at the other Rebuilding Teams

Ottawa Senators

The Ottawa Senators are not in a good place right now, especially if you consider them rebuilding. While they have some talented forwards and a young defense corps, the team is weighed down by a group of highly paid, and unproductive veterans, most particularly Bobby Ryan.

This Ottawa organization has made some good moves as of late, like drafting Brady Tkachuck and Thomas Chabot, and they got a decent return for All-Star defenseman Erik Karlsson. However, they also made one of the absolute worst trades ever at the start of last season. They traded away Kyle Turris, the rights to Shane Bowers, Andrew Hammond, a third round pick, and what ended up being a top lottery pick, to improve a team that had taken the eventual Stanley Cup Champion Penguins to seven games in the 2017 Eastern Conference Finals.  What followed last season was a disaster and this season has been much worse.  Now the Colorado Avalanche, a team with a plethora of young offensive talent, will likely have the best shot at the first overall pick this coming draft.

The Senators then took Matt Duchene, the player they received for that haul, and shipped him to Columbus for two prospects and two conditional first round picks. This organization is dysfunctional right now and I don’t see them anywhere near the playoffs soon.