{"id":540953,"date":"2026-03-16T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:51:11","slug":"how-much-change-is-coming-in-ottawa-if-they-miss-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540953\/","title":{"rendered":"How much change is coming in Ottawa if they miss the playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an increasingly volatile NHL, optimism can be fleeting. Last season, the Ottawa Senators<\/a> made the playoffs for the first time since 2017. Despite losing in the first round to the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, the team appeared to be on an upward trajectory, led by young players such as forwards Tim Stutzle, Brady Tkachuck, and defenseman Jake Sanderson.<\/p>\n

This year, however, things have not progressed as anticipated in Ottawa. With 16 games left to play in the regular season, the Senators sit three points back of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Even with a 7-1-2 record in their last 10 games, they still have a lot of work to do to avoid a letdown season. If Ottawa does fall short of the postseason, what changes, if any, could they make this offseason to ensure they get back on track?<\/p>\n

On Monday\u2019s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Brent Wallace\u00a0joined Tyler Yaremchuk and Steve Peters to discuss the potential fall out if Ottawa\u2019s postseason expectations aren\u2019t met.<\/p>\n

Tyler Yaremchuk:\u00a0If they miss by two points, will ownership and upper management kind of recognize that \u201cHey, it just wasn\u2019t out year,\u201d or would there be a call for some amount of change?<\/p>\n

Brent Wallace:\u00a0Regardless, as you know, every year there\u2019s change with players because of free agency. Right now, Ottawa\u2019s playing without Jake Sanderson for the next couple of weeks probably; their number-one D obviously. They\u2019re also missing Nick Jensen, he\u2019s out and they\u2019ve won both these games over the weekend without either one of those guys in their top four. Nick Jensen\u2019s going to likely be gone. I\u2019m not sure where Lars Eller or Claude Giroux, or even Nick Cousins fit in next year\u2019s plans. They\u2019re going to have to make some changes. They need to figure out a way to bolster their blueline a little bit. <\/p>\n

I know what you\u2019re getting at, Tyler. You\u2019re asking me if they\u2019re thinking about trading Linus Ullmark. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a discussion. I don\u2019t know where that\u2019s at. He\u2019s in year one of his four-year extension that pays him $8.25 million. I think they believe in him enough to let him see and play his way through this. But it is an interesting question. <\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and entire episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an increasingly volatile NHL, optimism can be fleeting. Last season, the Ottawa Senators made the playoffs for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-540953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}