I didn't think he'd sign here either, stoked

Ooooooooohhhhh yeahhhhhhh!

You guys better tease Bennett about this signing. I believe he said NEVER? He underestimated the lure of Ottawa so make him eat his words! LOL!

I watched this episode last year. Who did you get to edit out Korpo with Ulmark?

Guenette and JBD are capable RD.

Yakemchuck has been so impressive in camp/pre-season games

I finally got a chance to watch this video! Let’s go, CJ!

Giroux trains so hard.. I have a feeling he will be fine

Wow that lineup from 3 years ago. Thank god Dorion is gone forever. This is more like a rebirth now.

What we really need is a goalie who wont choke in the shootouts theyre great when the teams helping them but in the shootouts they crumble like emery was good goalie but sucked in the shootouts if we didnt have the shootouts only overtime wed a won way more games?

Ulmark bought a house in westboro best part of ottawa west is best benet stop being so negative lets just see how the season goes hes going to do great here and hes going to love it here hes going to love this city i know it always comes back too bite you when you get too excited but were going to the playoffs this year and that's a 10-4 little buddy

"third time's the charm" "you only have two shoulders" so real

Great watch as always boys 🙂

I get really good vibes on Ullmark and the one thing that he has said throughout all of his interviews is how similar Ottawa is to Sweden. He is already house hunting and has made all the noises about committing long-term. I think we will see that before the year is out. He inks a 4 - 5 year deal with the Sens and solves the black hole issue that has been goaltending. Also, let's be honest here: if hes lights out and is a game-changer for the Sens, they are not going to let him walk; he will get paid in a massive contract agreement with us as we have been looking for a goaltender for so long. We also need this piece to prove to Brady, Timmy, and Sandy that the ownership is committing to building a winning team. That doesn't happen if Ullmark walks after 1 year, and I fear that Brady and Co would consider their options next summer if this doesn't get sorted.

Matt (on the left as I watch), that's a great summary of Josh Norris. I'm of your thinking here, as this season we will see a better Norris. Also, with Pinto back in the line-up from camp this is going to allow Josh to settle in the line up more and not be called upon more than is needed. Great stuff as always guys 🙂

Fans just want someone competent. The bar is *tragically* low. He's proven himself as a decent goalie at the very least - hopefully a great one here for the sens

I started out a podcast listener but I prefer KZbin. In general, YT ads are annoying but my wife keeps steeling my Spotify account to play kids music for her daycare. 20min videos are too short. 40min to an hour seems to be an industry (Sens KZbinrs) standard. Oh, and great content!

Loved this boys, great content as always, would love to come on and chat with you guys (Sean by the way from the UK)

They're just like me for real, not sure what year it is or how long I've done something

Take a look at all the contending teams,what do you notice.What I notice is the size of the players.You want big players with high end skills.Big players take away time and space,small players get crushed,eventually.

i just miss when people used to be excited about the sens, seeing everyone downtown/the sens flags on everyone's car. The vibes were immaculate

Thanks for the content going into the dog days of summer 👍

Travis Green will land this team in another renuild.

I think they will make it or just be a few points out. It all depends how good they start at the beginning of the season and how they manage crucial games near the end of the Season. Do they have the depth? Yes they do.

Solid pod. I tuned in to hear my smart young friend Alex. I'd previously subscribed but for whatever reason pulled away. Ended up listening to your last pod as well, assessing all the off-season moves. And was thinking how smart you young fellas sounded with your takes, especially on the Chychrun trade. However, I have to respectfully disagree on your Joseph take. You make it sound like Staios decided one day he was going to move the guy and attach a third-round pick to make it happen. You also implied that we could comfortably handle the 2.95X2 hit. Neither are true imho. SS had made it clear to the entire league for months he wanted to move Joseph. Every team scouts the Sens. Clearly, all 31 teams could have had MJ for future considerations with no sweetener. Obviously, it took the sweetener to move him. Ergo, it pretty well illustrates that Joseph was overpaid in today's market. Second, there is very little cap space left and there's just NO WAY Sens won't add at least one D if not two. We're two months away from the start of the season -- obviously they need some flexibility to find a player or two to fill those needs, to say nothing of a possible forward addition. Other than not buying out Hamonic, I think Staios deserves at minimum a B-plus for his entire body of work, and that effort had to include moving Joseph out.

I don't think you can be a sens fan without prescription strength copium sometimes 😅

Ottawa with $8 million Norris could be a playoff team. If he can't play or doesn't play up to his potential, there's no way we make the playoffs

Alex is such a great guy. Nice interview.

Foolish to criticize a GM like GMSS and think that a guy like Walker would sign here for a couple hundred thousand more, not taking into account where the teams are in their growth curve and more importantly taxation on the contract….terribly bad take by Matt, sorry bud

The ullmark signing single handedly cured my depression (but also if they don't make the playoffs it will be very dire if there's no extension in place)

“Truculence”

what return ?? give 3rd round pick to take him....still owe second round pick for CHYCRUN ..this guy makes Dorion look like a genius... anyone could make trades like this... and overpay Pinto

If Yakemchuck can get anywhere to 15-20 goals but be brutal to play against it will be a win for the Sens. i am very excited for the future.

Sens clearing cap and roster space?

Brannstrom needed a qualifying offer, hence he wasn't worth his price. Jensen trade is good, the market for Walker or Roy wasn't there, always easy to sign guys in theory when they actually don't want to come to Ottawa.

Say it ain’t so. ;) Joseph and chychrun trades are Dorion level returns. Pretty surprising.

The past few videos, yall have been complaining about the new FO’s. Nothing about this roster is safe after last year. We are a small market team why would we get any RD FAs to come here? Staois knew the only way was through a trade. Mathieu Joseph’s production fell off a cliff half way through the season. You guys are missing the trees for the forest, Staois wants 200ft CONSISTENT PLAYERS. He will trade the whole roster if they don’t produce. He doesn’t give a f* who he’s best friends with. There’s a reason he got sat last year. Also another reason would be is he are nearly a cap team, why would anybody trade for Joseph after the horrendous year this team had. You guys are overvaluing players, players like Joseph in the market can be found for $2mill. That cap space has better use for a 3rd pair RD.

3 million In cap space is significantly more valuable. Players of his calibre don’t get 3 million

My conspiracy theory is that Staios is a Detroit fan. Got rid of both players responsible for Larkin’s injury, and signs Zub-puncher Perron for $4m. In all seriousness though I wonder if maybe there was some sort of problem off the ice that wasn’t reported? Joseph was benched for an unspecified reason early in the season and that was never mentioned again. Could be it made him a prime target for being shipped out if Staios was unimpressed with him.

Amadio started with L.A then only suited for the Sens for 5 games before he went to Toronto back in 2021 then Vegas, as for Perron, i think he only stays for 1 year

3 of big problems with this team last year were: Goaltending: Big upgrade with Ullmark The team spiraling when they are down: added some veteran leadership to avoid the spiraling and improved defensively and in goal to avoid going down. Lack of grit other than Brady: added some sandpaper with Perron, Amadio, Grgor and Jensen, plus even more help coming with a draft full of big players. Moving on from Branny and giving Klevin those minutes should hopefully help there too

I think you’re underestimating Gregor a bit. I think fans will really like him. Having said that if it comes down to one or the other I’d probably prefer crookshank. Hope he gets a fair chance.

Jensen is horrible on D and has no O. He is a turnover over machine and older. Horrible trade for Sens.

The Sens, for the most part, have been weak on the boards and are not great at winning puck battles. In a game where puck possession is key, Staios has added that capability in his FA signings. I like the direction.

13:55. They would have looked at everything. So you’re likely right.

The guy was a -30, far worse than anyone else on the team and he is a defensemen , he wasn't worth much.

I did say Parekh was a no brainer pick but CY26 was my 2nd choice if Parekh was picked before so I was just a tidy disappointed but I can understand why and I’m still happy with the pick

Should have kept DeMelo

Yeah that’s the issue with the trade. We didn’t maximize assets coming back by trading our biggest trade chip for a guy we could have got in FA. And like you say Sean walker is probably a better player than Jensen and younger. But whatever. He had a lot of work to do and he addressed pretty much everything. Jensen should be a good partner for chabot. But he’s 34 years old so won’t be around long. 2 years from now we’ll only have the third rnd pick to show from chychrun and all the assets we gave up to get him. One of those things we just have to forget and look forward. The lineup is improved overall.

Yeah I went to Chychrun's debut game and the atmosphere at that game was electric. It was one of the best games I've been to. It's sad how quickly it soured but I think the trade was successful. In my opinion we don't need more offensive D players. Stutzle should be back up to form next season, we have a better goalie, and I think we have the skill needed to improve