The longer the Shane Pinto "situation" remains unsolved, the more of a problem that is for the Ottawa Senators, who beat Tampa Sunday.
The longer the Shane Pinto “situation” remains unsolved, the more of a problem it could be for the Ottawa Senators.
The longer Pinto, who is waiting to be fairly compensated, is away from the team, it could sink the chances of the Senators qualifying for the playoffs. That speaks not only to the value of the 22-year-old, who had 20 goals last season, it also points to how tight the race for playoff spots in the East can be.
In the first period, when the Senators outshot the Lightning 17-3, Vladimir Tarasenko gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead. Mathieu Joseph then rifled in a wrist shot with a bit less than a minute left in the second to restore the Ottawa lead.The Senators made it 4-2 on another Tkachuk goal with seven minutes left and it was 5-2 on an empty-netter by Tim Stutzle.
$64,294 to spare under the salary cap. With that constraint, the Senators would have to hoodwink Pinto and his agent Lewis Gross to agree to something just above the NHL minimum. Not happening. That’s on the Senators and what sure seems like bad cap gymnastics. Why wasn’t a Pinto deal done before the Senators sniffed around and added in free agency?The fans want Pinto. Many at the arena yelled out his name in unison in the third period Sunday.
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