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Linus Olmert, I believe it was Bruce Garriock, he came out and said that Ottawa went hard at
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Olmert at the trade deadline. Do we think that Ottawa revisits at the draft? He said that they're
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likely to push hard at the draft. One, Olmert has a no trade clause, so that could come into play and
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just end of conversation. But is Linus Olmert the guy that you think that the Ottawa Senators
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should target, Paul? Well, I think they've got to give it a shot, right? I mean, I've written
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several times referencing a potential for an Olmert-Chickman trade. The thing I like about
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that is it would be one of those rare occasions when you can make a one-for-one player trade
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The salary of both is similar. The term is similar. Boston needs help on the blue line
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and Lord knows we need help in goal. So theoretically, it's possible. You have to
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wonder whether Olmert would come to Ottawa. We'll see. But Toronto is in the hunt, as are
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a number of other teams. So I think he'd give that a shot. Dayton, what do you think? Do you
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think that Olmert should be a target for the Senators? I'm kind of torn. Olmert would be a
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massive upgrade on paper. But also, I don't think goaltending is the root of the issue. I think
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there's a lot of team structure issues that need to be dealt with first, rather than just grabbing
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a new goalie and running the same thing again. Because then I think you're going to get another
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Corpus Allo. You're going to get another Matt Murray. You're going to get another problematic goalie who can't stay healthy, because that's what they have set up right now
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is to overwork their goalie and not provide them support. And then, oh, it's all the goalies' fault
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when they can't stop a beach ball. Once is weird. Twice is a coincidence. Three times
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Three times there's bigger problems. And I think we're on four or five right now. So
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I don't oppose acquiring Olmert. But I think there's other things that need to be fixed first
