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Steve Staios has been appointed General Manager and President of Hockey Operations; Dave Poulin joins the team as Senior Vice-President, Hockey Operations; Ryan Bowness has been appointed the team’s Associate General Manager.

Poulin!

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Poulin is by all accounts a very well-liked guy who talks the game well, though IIRC the last time he was part of a front office was in Toronto under JFJ. That said, he obviously knows the game.

Staios naming Staios GM reminds me of that one episode of The Office where Dwight holds an Olympics-like event to determine who his Number Two will be and Jim rigs it knowing full well that Dwight will just end up picking himself.

Poulin was under Nonis with Loiselle the "cap guy", when they signed Clarkson to the buyout-proof contract.

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Thanks Chuck, E.L. and Harmy!

Well...hopefully he's learned since then. Nonis was a transcendently bad GM, and I think he'll get another shot someday. Like Chiarelli, he has impeccable connections within the game.

Michael Del Zotto apparently had some not-so-nice things to say about the Sens organization behind the scenes, but I just don't know how much of his shit you can take seriously.

Pinto signed for 1 year, $775k.

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Posting your political views on social media is like sticking your head up your ass & whispering: You're just as likely to change someone's mind, and you'll always come out looking like a shithead.

That could go toward one hell of a parlay.

"It was the old GM who was dragging your name through the mud to save some cap space, not me!"

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