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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Senators Roundtable, Ottawa Senators writers Jacob Billington and Dayton Reimer get together to discuss Lassi Thomson signing in the SHL, look back at past Senators draft classes, the state of the prospect pool, and more.
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The 2022 draft, we can kind of move on to that and just talk a little bit of a prospect
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update here. A lot more, there was a lot more picks, but there was also a lot more positive picks coming
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out of it. So Oscar Pedersen looks to be okay. But Stephen Halliday has had all eyes on him over the past couple weeks
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He did absolutely fantastic during the set of Belleville Senators. I almost said Binghamton. Wow
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The Belleville Senators playoff run. Yeah, I don't know where that came from
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But Stephen Halliday has done very well. He is an excellent playmaker
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He's got good size. He's got good skating. I think that he's got a lot of the attributes that are needed to kind of make that transition
0:44
I think he could do really well as like a third line scoring winger
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Jorian Donovan, he's doing really well. He did good in the OHL this year
0:55
Cam O'Neill, he had an okay season in the NCAA. A couple other names in there, but not a ton of standouts in the last draft
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I mean Hoyt Stanley, Matthew Antonovsky, Owen Beckner, Vladimir Nikitin. Nikitin did have a really good season in the BCHL, but it's the BCHL
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So take that as you will. And Nick Van Tassel. I don't know if over the course of the season I heard any of those names
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The draft, looked at them, said, cool, this is what we got
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I don't know if I heard any of their names through the course of the season. They're just all blah
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I mean it was a fourth round pick, a fifth round pick, and three seventh round picks
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That's all I know. It was another draft of just like adding role players. Yeah
1:43
Hoyt Stanley had the most upside of all of them. I don't think he passes a second pairing defensive defenseman
1:54
He's a big lanky defender. That's what he does. He won't put up points
2:00
And we're seeing that in, is he Cornell? Yes, I want to say he's at Cornell
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He's playing NCAA anyways. Like fine, but I think he had maybe less than 10 points this year
2:16
He had 10 in 35 games. It was at 10. Okay. I haven't checked in a minute
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So yeah, like intriguing, but there's not a lot of offensive upside. Andonovsky is a tough guy
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Ben Tassel is a late round pick. Cam O'Neill I think was another overage pick that Dorian loved doing
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Just a lot of blah. I mean, that's kind of the way that you maybe talk about most of the picks with Dorian. Yeah
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Especially now that that era has ended. And it's just, really? All right. Yeah
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