After a few years of overachieving Ottawa crashed back to earth and was a pretty bad team last year. Murray's response was to let talent go and not adequately replace it. Say what you want about Spezza but he was by far their most talented forward and a Clarke MacArthur, Kyle Turris, Bobby Ryan first line looks like the first line of a team that isn't expecting to make the playoffs. Looks to me like they are purposely taking a step back in a good draft year.
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