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Should the Senators Trade Mathieu Joseph for Brandon Tanev
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Jun 24, 2024
In this episode of The Hockey Writers Senators Roundtable, Ottawa Senators writers Jacob Billington and Dayton Reimer get together to discuss whether Steve Staios should look into trading Mathieu Joseph to the Seattle Kraken for Brandon Tanev.
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Matthew Joseph, uh, it sounds like Ottawa is trying to get rid of him before the
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draft is $2.95 million looked a whole lot better this season than it did last season
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but still not ideal. Uh, maybe even a little bit less ideal is Brandon Tanev, uh, who has $3.5
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million for one more year opposed to Matthew Joseph's two years. Uh, very similar, like point totals, uh, similar impacts, different skill sets
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but they both make a pretty similar impact on a lineup. What do you think of just the concept of moving, uh, Joseph out and bringing
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Tanev in and part of bringing Brandon Tanev in is going to be to incentivize
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Chris Tanev and joining the team. So if you have any thoughts on Chris Tanev joining, you can
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add that in at the end too. Um, well that whole situation reminds me of, I think it was back in 2005, 2006
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Coming out of the lockout, the Anaheim ducks acquired Rob Niedermeyer. Uh, I can't remember from whom again, but then they also signed Scott Niedermeyer
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or maybe that was the trade. And then it was like, I, they brought in both brothers to the ducks surprise
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surprise, they win the cup. Right now, Scott Niedermeyer is a hall of famer
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Chris Tanev and Brandon Tanev are not, um, even the most glowing reports don't
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have them anywhere close to that. It doesn't mean that they're not effective
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I don't just see them as a bottom pairing guy. Um, I think it's a, it's a really good move
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I think maybe his price is a little bit high, but if you are kind of working
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that angle, I think that would be great. I think Joseph has kind of made himself as expendable
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He's been really good, but also inconsistent. He's meshed well with some guys, but then they keep moving around
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and he just, I don't know. I don't know if he has a long-term future on this team
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And if they were going to bring in his brother, uh, Pierre Oliver
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Joseph from the penguins, that would be great. He's this talented depth defenseman, but I don't think they're going to do that
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And I don't think Pittsburgh wants to get rid of them. So let's go with the Tanev angle
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They're local too, aren't they? Are they Ottawa or Ontario? Uh, I'm going to look that up real quick
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Uh, I thought they were. They're from Toronto. Yeah. Okay. So not local, but kinda
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I don't know why I had Saskatchewan in my head. Hmm. There is a lot of hockey players from Saskatchewan
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There is. Uh, I looked it up for you, by the way. Uh, so they traded for Rob Niedermeyer in the 0203 season, and then signed
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Niedermeyer in the lockout or Scott Niedermeyer. Okay. So I did have that right
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Yeah. Fantastic. Um, but yeah, I, I think bringing in the Tanevs, uh, brings kind of that, that
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thing that Steve Stavis has been looking for and that's quality veterans. Uh, you're not bringing in
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Like, you're not going to trade a second round pick for Derek Stephon again. Uh, that's not what's going to happen with the Brandon Tanev trade
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The same premise is there like bringing in, I'll be honest, bringing in Derek Stephon
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I really liked the deal. Not for a second round pick. Maybe a fifth round pick would have been fine
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Um, and I, like, I liked the premise of it. You need these guys, these quality depth players that can, uh, do well
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in the lineup and help the young guys. That's what Ottawa needs right now is to get somebody like Brandon
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Tanev, who's been there, done that. He needs to come in and just kind of mentor some of these guys and
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just be a presence in the locker room. And we've all seen from his, uh, his NHL mugshots that he is one of the
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funniest guys in the league, the way he always has eyes wide open. Um, and then if, if he can bring Chris Tanev along with him, that's an absolute
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win to Chris Tanev is, should be one of the top targets for Ottawa this season, this off season
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