Dimitri Filipovich

And the Penguins certainly look very frustrated because they had a pretty easy go of it offensively all year, and now they've bumped into this resistance, and they don't really have any problem-solving available to them to get around it.

I think committing $50 million to any goalie combination is generally a bad idea.

Yeah.

Two goalies who have famously performed very well in the playoffs recently.

finding out a way to kind of get over this round one hump and like at least give them some margin of error where they're not just preying on coin flip hockey games every night yeah I think it's important like I know right now within the moment like they're down three nothing it seems like they're headed towards another disappointment if you take a remove emotion from it and take a bit of a step back and just

kind of view the situation they're in they are playing the best team in the eastern conference and it's just by nature of the whole they dug themselves early in the year and wound up having to be the eighth seed i don't imagine they'd be in this type of a situation if they're facing pretty much any other team in the east i think it would look much more competitive in terms of the series score and they probably would have beaten a handful of the other east playoff teams so acknowledging that i think they ultimately just need to figure out a way to add more

offensive talent in particular and offensive juice like you look through this lineup and without Stutzla and Kachuk scoring they haven't really had anything to fall back on got a couple goals from Drake Bathurston but for the most part haven't had any creators and that's been my concern for this organization for years now it's like

trading ceiling for floor in a way where like the floor is increased and they're becoming a playoff team now but when you compare them to the Habs or the Sabres in their own division what's the ultimate ceiling in terms of what are the heights they can reach and it looks like it's pretty capped right now based on the roster they have it's tough to when you've graduated to like consistent playoff team to find the Avenue to add that elite offensive talent do you does a player stand out as like you know they might have to bite the bullet and trade this guy or use him as a trade ship to kind of

find that offensive talent to add from outside the organization are you trying to bait me into a hot take a trade brady kachuk this offseason that's where you want to go go nuts no because he'll happily take you up on that bait yeah i think that's probably the move yeah

Yeah.

Yeah.

Especially with the perception and reputation around the league.

I imagine the return on that trade.

you could easily envision a scenario where the senators come out ahead as an organization in terms of the talent and assets they're able to get back.

And that's probably their most desirable chip beyond, I guess, what is Drake Bathurston has like one more year after this one at a really low number in the fours, I believe.

So that would obviously be a very interesting asset, but he's also scored 66% of their team.

The Carolina one is a surprise.

I mean, the Senators were a very trendy dark horse pick to upset the Hurricanes to the point where the odds for the series got pretty tight towards the end of it.

I think it was like 52-48 by a lot of the models that I saw.

So I think a sweep would certainly be surprising.