As the play-in round of the NHL season continues to go off without a hitch, we simultaneously draw closer and closer to a more important event for Ottawa Senators fans aside from the long-awaited sale of the team: the franchise-defining 2020 NHL Entry Draft. I’ve talked way too much about the picks at this point, what’s important is what the team does with them. That, of course, falls on the shoulders of the group led by Chief Amateur Scout Trent Mann.
Since joining the organization as a full-time scout in the summer of 2014, Mann has participated in five NHL drafts, the previous three as Chief Amateur Scout.