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Evening Line- Eugene Melnyk

04/07/2017 at 8:59pm EDT

"There’s a certain point in the season, as an owner, where you need to make a bet. You either bet for the team going into the playoffs and on further, as far as you can and, hopefully, to a Stanley Cup and, when you get there, everything is up in the air, you’re now in the Stanley Cup final and it’s got its own dynamic.

“Or, you bet against the team, and you say, ‘You know what, let’s save as much money as we can, we’re going to have revamp this team, that’s three of four years we’re not in the playoffs, we’ve got to change.’ I can’t fire anymore coaches, we’ve done enough of that, so then you’ve got really stick your hands into it and say, ‘Let’s go through every single player and see why this person is going to get us a Stanley Cup next year.’

“I made the bet for the team.”

-Eugene Melnyk, owner of the Ottawa Senators. Bruce Garrioach at the Ottawa Citizen ha more from Melnyk.

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