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Senators 2024 Offseason Trade Targets - Martin Necas, Carolina Hurricanes
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 Martin Necas as an offseason trade target.
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Moving on, another player in a very similar situation as Ealers is Mardy Nikish
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So he is a pending RFA, don't know what's going to happen
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Carolina has to deal with some money issues. He feels like a bit of an odd man out and there's been some rumors about it, but is
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he somebody that you'd be interested in? He's a right winger, like you mentioned, Dayton, and he can play center
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He hasn't played much center under Rod Brind'Amour, but he can. So is his versatility an asset
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What do you think, Dayton? Oh, I'm super interested in Mardy Nikish
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I think he is a fantastic player. He was, I think I remember him playing on the World Juniors and he was really, really dynamic
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Made the NHL, had one season of 71 points, so that was last year, 22-23
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Has been more so around that 50 point mark. I would probably argue that's because he has been the odd man out because the Hurricanes
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have such a good top six and so he's not getting those top six minutes
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Throw him in with Ottawa, I think that is going to be really dangerous
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He's a big guy, he shoots right on that right wing. He's not going to shy away from some of that physicality
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He's not a physical player, but I don't think he's shy about it. He's very competitive
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Yeah, throw that on the first or second line, I would pay what it takes
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I think the Senators need to get on that. I'm in the same boat
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I think that he should be target number one in terms of offseason trades just because
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when's a guy like this that's this kind of impactful coming for trade and maybe at lower
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the market value, right? You look at his season this year, 24 goals, 29 assists for 53 points
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He was a minus nine on the Hurricanes in 77 games. The fit doesn't feel as good as it could be
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I do think that they absolutely appreciate him and they enjoy having him on the team
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but is he really going to be worth like, I think that his contract is going to be bigger
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than his production looks to be. Right now he's only making three million and he's only hit
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So last year you mentioned 71 points. This was his second best year production wise with 53
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That's not ideal, but you can see it. He has so much more in him than that
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And he's also only played over 70 games three times. I think that Marty Nikish would be a fantastic pickup
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Paul, what do you think? I don't know if he'd be my number one target, but I will give him this
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He is from Carolina and hopefully he would bring in some Carolina Hurricanes DNA, which
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the Ottawa Senators desperately need
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