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Ottawa Senators: Pierre Dorion’s best trades

By Joshua Delorme

OTTAWA, ON - OCTOBER 4: Pierre Dorion, General Manager of the Ottawa Senators, walks the red carpet prior to the start of their home opener against the Chicago Blackhawks at Canadian Tire Centre on October 4, 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images)
OTTAWA, ON - OCTOBER 4: Pierre Dorion, General Manager of the Ottawa Senators, walks the red carpet prior to the start of their home opener against the Chicago Blackhawks at Canadian Tire Centre on October 4, 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images) /
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Number 3 – Derick Brassard, Vince Dunn & 2018 third-round pick to Pittsburgh AND Vegas for Filip Gustavsson, Ian Cole, 2018 first-round pick & 2019 third-round pick

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LAVAL, QC – DECEMBER 12: Goaltender Filip Gustavsson #30 of the Belleville Senators protects his net during the warm-up prior to the AHL game against the Laval Rocket at Place Bell on December 12, 2018 in Laval, Quebec, Canada. The Laval Rocket defeated the Belleville Senators 3-1. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) /

I don’t know that we’ve ever seen a General Manager pull off this many three-way trades in such a short amount of time! Three-way trades are always a little complicated, so I’m just going to focus on the Ottawa Senators part of the trade.

Since Robin Lehner left the Ottawa Senators organization there really has not been a “goaltender of the future” in the organization. Pierre Dorion was able to bring in a goaltender that at the time was considered one of the best outside of the NHL. The fact that he managed to get a first-round pick and a third-round pick is even better. (We can’t forget that a few days after this trade the Ottawa Senators traded Ian Cole away for another third-round pick.)

Filip Gustavsson struggled a little bit down in Belleville last season, his first complete season in North America. The organization remains high on him, and goaltenders generally do take a little longer to develop than defencemen or forwards do.

Essentially, this trade ends up leaving the Ottawa Senators with Filip Gustavsson, Jacob Bernard-Docker, Johnathan Tychonick & Mads Sogaard. The 2018 first-round pick acquired from Pittsburgh was traded at the Draft to the New York Rangers for a 2018 first-round pick and a 2018 second-round pick which became Bernard-Docker and Tychonick. The 2019 third-round pick was packaged with a 2019 second-round pick to move up and select Mads Sogaard.

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So in the end, the Ottawa Senators got two goaltenders with potential starter written all over them, a future top-4 right-handed defenceman and a defenceman that should develop to being a second or third pairing guy for this team down the road.

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