Senators owner Eugene Melnyk breaks silence, addresses team’s future in video
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk broke his silence and laid out his vision for the franchise’s future on Monday night in a video posted to the club’s Twitter account.
The rebuild is officially on.
In a team-produced video, where Melnyk sat in a Senators sweater taking questions from Ottawa defenceman Mark Borowiecki about the upcoming season, the owner used the word “rebuild” and highlighted the amount of prospects and draft picks the organization currently holds and the importance they have moving forward.
“It is a cliche kind of term but we take it seriously,” Melnyk said when asked about the team’s direction heading into 2018-19. “I think we’re gonna have 10 players that our new, meaning rookies or played maybe under 10 games last year. The following year it’ll go up to 15, maybe 16. That’s a total turnover, which is exactly what should be in a rebuild.