'The key for us is to identify who is a Senators fan or not ... For our fans that are real fans, we’re doing the best we can.' Eugene Melnyk laid out his plans for the Sens rebuild.
. “We tripped up one of these guys, or somebody did, and it turned out it was some little 12-year-old in Toronto that was upset with the Senators in general. I’m a high-profile person that is an easy a target, so let them do what they want to do. I basically ignore 99 per cent of it.fans, we’re doing the best we can. All we can do is keep doing what we’ve been doing. We’ve had a great record for the past 15, 16 years,” continued Melnyk, who purchased the team in 2003.
Melnyk and Dorion have repeatedly praised veterans like Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Mark Borowiecki, and Cody Ceci as the leaders of the locker room. Brady Tkachuk has been a bright spot on the NHL roster, as have Thomas Chabot and Colin White, and Melnyk made it clear there’s plenty more promise currently developing with the AHL affiliate in Belleville — think Drake Batherson and Logan Brown, to name a few.
“The whole objective is, three years out, that we have a true Stanley Cup contender and that we don’t have the gaps that some people have, some teams have, and that we stay within the cap,” he continued. “We know what the cap is going to be, but my worry is that we’re going to be bumping into that if you have five or six real stars that you’re going to be paying $10 million to. So it’s a matter of looking forward to do that.
Melnyk said the decision was Dorion’s to make, and that he himself “only found out about the firing an hour before,” but stood by the decision:
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