Dorion Details the Delay In Chychrun Being Traded to Senators

It’s not often that GMs talk in great length about trades they’ve made, especially when it comes to the finer details of how the transaction came together. In the case of Jakob Chychrun coming to the Ottawa Senators, GM Pierre Dorion isn’t hiding much, speaking with the Cam and Strick podcast about why the deal took so long to consummate and his thoughts about where the Senators would have been if they’d been able to finalize the trade sooner than they ultimately did.

Dorion was a guest on the show and noted that the trade that saw Ottawa add defenseman Jakob Chychurn was almost a year in the making.

He said, “In a trade like Chychrun, you know, you’re dealing with a GM that is very stubborn, and he’s admitted to me that he’s very stubborn, and he was going to wait until he got what he wanted.” Dorion added, ” I think what helped us was that other teams, Arizona had to take money and in our case, we didn’t have to take money, it was just a straight hockey deal, you know it was a year and a half in the making almost and we were fortunate enough to get, wow, a hell of a player.”