When former Senators GM Pierre Dorion looks back on his tenure in Ottawa, there will undoubtedly be moves he'd like to have back.Rebuilding an NHL franchise as a first-time GM was never going to be easy.
Doing it under one of the league's most hands-on and unpredictable owners was another level altogether.
While there were certainly missteps along the way, Dorion deserves lasting credit for a number of moves, including one that continues to age remarkably well.Selecting Jake Sanderson fifth overall in the 2020 NHL Draft.Steve Warne and Gregg Kennedy discuss which players might fill out the Senators top six this fall.At the time, the pick wasn't universally applauded.
Some draft analysts believed that if Ottawa wanted a defenceman that high, Jamie Drysdale was the better option.
Six years later, there isn't much debate.Dorion and his scouting staff got it right.In fact, they got it spectacularly right when Dorion later signed Sanderson to an eight-year, $64 million c…
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