Ottawa Senators Sterling Predictions: The Trade Deadline

Welcome back for the second installment in this year’s Ottawa Senators Sterling Predictions feature. In yesterday’s kick-off piece, the staff did their best to guess at who will lead the team in scoring. Today, we look forward to one of the pivotal moments of any NHL campaign: the trade deadline.

In recent years, the assumption at the start of the season has always been that the Sens would be looking to off-load veterans at the trade deadline for picks or prospects since they would be long out of the play-off race. This year, the situation could be very different.