3. Ottawa gets more from outside of its duo
While most of the talk around Ottawa is about its duo of Brady Tkachuk and Tim Stutzle, Ottawa still has good role players around. This season, Ottawa has the ability to get more offensive production to produce scoring.
Drake Batherson has been an underrated player over the past two seasons with recording back-to-back 60-point seasons. Batherson has the ability to take a bigger step and play more minutes to grow. Even though he's entering the final year of his contract, Claude Giroux has been a good veteran leader to have in the locker room. Giroux was second last season on the team with 43 assiists, and Giroux will have the ability again to produce offense again this season. Signing Nick Cousins and David Perron also provides veteran leadership.
Two young Senators destined to take big steps this season are Jake Sanderson and Shane Pinto. Pressure now grows more on Sanderson with no getting paid over $8 million per season until 2032, and Pinto played well after his 41-game suspension last season.
Both Josh Norris and Thomas Chabot have the ability to have bounce back seasons. Michael Amadio has championship pedigree after playing with the Vegas Golden Knights for the past three seasons. Artem Zub and Nick Jensen have the ability to be a good defensive defense pair this season as well.
The Senators have the ability to get more production from their players outside of Tkachuk and Stutzle to have success this season.