OTTAWA --Ottawa Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said he has been tempted to make a move prior to the NHL Trade Deadline on March 1, but has to balance the Senators' future against the present.
"Being a first-year GM, it's tempting [to make a trade]," Dorion told reporters in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the Senators play at the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday (7:30 p.m. ET, FS-CR, TSN5, RDS. NHL.TV). "We could give up a great asset for the future, but I think we owe it to the organization when those players are going to play, whether it's next year, two or three years, how good they are going to be, you can't do that. That's why right now, we're at a point where we just might stay with what we have.
Senators GM resisting temptation to trade
Pierre Dorion says Ottawa doesn't want to give up assets, despite recent injuries affecting forward depth
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