After exhausting the trade market to find a suitor for Andrew Hammond, the Senators placed Andrew Hammond on waivers yesterday signalling perhaps one of the organization’s most precipitous falls from grace since Dany Heatley clashed with Cory Clouston.
About 18-months since Hammond’s Cinderella’esque emergence on the NHL scene concluded, but the Senators saw enough of Hammond during his 2014-15 season in which he posted a 20-1-2 record, a 1.79 goals against average and a .941 save percentage to ink the goaltender to a three-year contract extension that paid him an average of $1.35-million per season.
Just two months into the second year of that contract, the Senators painted themselves into a corner through their misevaluation of how long Craig Anderson would be out of the lineup.