Sens Re-Sign Dzingel

The trend of teams and players avoiding arbitration is certainly a positive one, especially for fan bases that don't want to see their favourite players grow sour with their team or vice versa.  The Ottawa Senators and forward Ryan Dzingel avoided that nasty hearing by signing a new 2-year deal on Friday, one that will pay $3.6 million in total.

The 25-year old emerged as a solid depth piece for the Senators in the 2017 season, playing in 81 games, scoring 14 goals and 32 points, good enough for 183rd among all forwards.  Dzingel found his way into some very big minutes for Ottawa down the stretch and was certainly a big part of the team's success, which took them to the Eastern Conference Finals.

This season, Dzingel will look to reaffirm his spot with the team in that third line role and if he and his linemates can repeat their 2017 campaign, if not improve upon it, the Senators should be in good shape once again, come April.

As for the hockey pool, I don't think that Dzingel is the kind of player that is absolutely going to light up the league, but he will be a very serviceable late round pick, as you try to find some solid points in the late rounds of the draft, assuming you've already found all your defensemen and goalies.

Forwards	Cap	Defense	Cap	Goalies	Cap
Bobby Ryan	7.250	Dion Phaneuf	7.000	Craig Anderson	4.200
Mike Hoffman	5.188	Erik Karlsson	6.500	Mike Condon	2.400
Derick Brassard	5.000	Cody Ceci	2.800	Andrew Hammond	1.350
Clarke MacArthur	4.650	Mark Borowiecki	1.100
Kyle Turris	3.500	Thomas Chabot	0.863
Mark Stone	3.500	Chris Wideman	0.800
Zack Smith	3.250	Fredrik Claesson	0.650
Jean-Gabriel Pageau	3.100
Alexandre Burrows	2.500
Ryan Dzingel	1.800
Nate Thompson	1.650
Tom Pyatt	1.100
Mike Blunden	0.738

The current projected 23-man roster is looking very cost efficient, as they are now through signing all of their key restricted free agents and unlikely to make any more big splashes in the free agent market.  They are showing still $4.1 million in cap space, so if they are a big time player at the trade deadline, they will be able to go out and take on a big rental, trying to lift them over the top.