Ottawa Senators Report Cards: Shane Pinto

After the Ottawa Senators signed Vladimir Tarasenko last July, people kept asking the same question: how will they be able to re-sign Shane Pinto? Pinto was an RFA at the time, and the budget squeeze was real. It seemed like one of Mathieu Joseph, Erik Brännström, or Dominik Kubalik would have to be traded in order to fit Pinto under the cap. It was announced on October 26th that Pinto was suspended 41 games by the NHL in relation to sports gambling.