“I’m ready,” Zetterlund told reporters on Sunday, a day before he makes his Senators debut at home against the Detroit Red Wings. “I feel great. I’m looking forward to stepping on the ice tomorrow and it’s going to be fun.”

Another trade deadline has passed, and in his first full season as the general manager of the Ottawa Senators, Steve Staios wasn’t messing around and made some significant improvements.

"There's still time (for the Sens to make a move)," explained Johnston, referring to what he had been hearing in the rumour mill. "If there's going to be a surprise, it would be if anything big happened in either Ottawa or Calgary.

The Senators and Sabres are closing in on a blockbuster trade involving Dylan Cozens before the NHL trade deadline

What looked like a quiet trade deadline for the Ottawa Senators turned into a frenzy in the final hour.  Hockey analysts and Sens fans alike were ready

The Ottawa Senators took one of the biggest swings of the trade deadline when they acquired Dylan Cozens from the Buffalo Sabres for Jacob Bernard-Docker and Jo

Dylan Cozens was a rumoured trade candidate around the Buffalo Sabres, but not many expected the Ottawa Senators to be the landing spot. In a trade involving some more pieces, the leading players in the deal were Cozens to the Senators and Josh Norris and Jacob Bernard-Docker to the Sabres.