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Senators 2024 Offseason Trade Targets - Nikolaj Ehlers, Winnipeg Jets
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May 26, 2024
In this episode of The Hockey Writers Senators Roundtable, Ottawa Senators writers Jacob Billington, Dayton Reimer, and Paul Quinney get together to discuss Nikolaj Ehlers as an offseason trade target.
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Let's move on to another Canadian market and talk about Nikolai Ehlers
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Speedy winger, a lot of offense there. Underutilized for what seems like his entire career
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He's getting third line minutes, which is criminal. Do you think Ottawa should target him
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I do think that a chikrin for Ehlers trade, Ottawa would have to add a little bit
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and probably an extension, maybe both ways. I don't know. But what would you think about acquiring Nikolai Ehlers, Paul
0:31
Well, you know, the way I looked at kind of categorized problems, so all right, where are your holes
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The holes are at defense, particularly on a right defense. There's a hole in the goal
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And then up front, what you've got to do is try and replace
0:46
Tarasenko slash Kubelik. That's not too hard. Yeah. Replace Kubelik. Well, yeah, but you have somebody right
0:57
Oh, that's true. That's true. But, you know, it you kind of got to replace the brink cap, right
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Which is not something they've done. How high a priority? You know, I think you got bigger problems in on D and in goal
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So, you know, Ehlers fine. I don't know. What do you think he cost
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We think got to give up. You mentioned chikrin chikrin. A second or third round pick and
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A prospect of sorts, not a very highly, but not that Ottawa has a high value prospect, but just kind of another asset to throw in there
1:35
Yeah. If he if he's coming with an extension. Yeah, OK, you get rid of chikrin it
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Well, you got too many left wing on defense anyway. So, you know, I don't I don't have any lefties yet
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I don't think it's going to make your. Make your blue line worse
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So no, and especially with Cleveland would take that spot and add a more at a different aspect
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Obviously, Jacob Chikrin is a much better defenseman than Tyler Cleveland today
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But he adds a different role, more of a more of a third line shutdown guy
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or third pair, I guess, shut down guy. So I think that losing chikrin for not a defenseman is not a problem
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Dayton, what do you think? So I'm more interested in adding Eilers than a goalie
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I don't know if he is quite the right fit. I think the senators need a right winger
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Eilers being a lefty, it doesn't look like he's played much right wing in his career
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I don't think he's a passive switch, but he does play a lot of both
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Does he play? OK, so I'm just on elite prospects and they are only listing left wing
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So that's my bad. So if that's the case, then. So if that's the case, then I'm much more interested
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He is a great goal scorer. He could fill the gap that is been left by both Debrinkat and Josh Norris
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who doesn't seem to play all that much. Now, that's like 60 goals you're losing and Eilers could bring 30
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He got close in 17, 18. He had 29. That's his career high
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But still, he's not scoring usually less than 25. So I don't know if I'd pay Chikrin a pick and a prospect if it's just Eilers
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I'd want maybe a prospect coming back as well or a pick. But the senators probably do have to pay a little bit more than just a guy for guy kind of swap
3:38
Yeah, but I think that addresses more of the issue that creates a much more solid top six, which I don't think the senators have right now
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I think they have an interesting top six, but not a solid one
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If that makes sense
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