Ottawa Senators defenceman Erik Karlsson will likely need at least six months to fully recover following surgery Thursday to repair his severed Achilles tendon.
The odds are long that the Ottawa Senators will land a superstar with the 15th pick in the first round of this year’s draft. They’ll get a competent NHL player, certainly. Given the recent track record of director of player personnel Pierre Dorion and his scouts, it’d be a disappointment if they didn’t.