The 50 Greatest Ottawa Senators Of All Time: #50 – #41
By Jack Leiper
48. Patrick Eaves
Stats: 157 GP, 38G, 71P
Height/Weight: 6foot0, 200lbs
Acquired: Draft Pick (29th OA, 2003)
A former Senators first rounder, Patrick Eaves was an impressive rookie and a player the Senators once viewed as a future piece. He would later be shipped out in the Joe Corvo Carolina deal and still plays today in Dallas, where he registered a career year in terms of point production.
Eaves’ is on a list with just Mika Zibanejad, Jason Spezza, and Erik Karlsson as 2000’s Senators draft picks who would go on to score 20 goals in a season, and Eaves was the only who did it in his rookie season.
He didn’t put up a ton of points in Ottawa, and his stay wasn’t long. However, the promise he showed as a rookie and his near 500 games of NHL experience gives him a spot on this list.