Senators owner Eugene Melnyk suggested in an interview this week that his team was faced with a decision: either meet Daniel Alfredsson's contract demands or go out and make a trade for an a forward like Bobby Ryan.
Melnyk told the Ottawa Citizen in a report published Monday the club would not have been able to do both, but Senators GM Bryan Murray said that isn't necessarily the case.
"I think Eugene's being a little hard on himself in that scenario," Murray told NHL.com. "We had talked about a way of doing Alfie's contract and still making the trade for Bobby Ryan, both financially and in terms of player return for [the Anaheim Ducks]."