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Maybe it's just another slow day for Sens news at the Ottawa Sun, but reporter Bruce Garrioch mentioned in today's paper that the Senators are considering resigning Dominik Hasek. At the last press conference, coach Bryan Murray said it was "time to move on" and consider other options. Hasek appeared on TSN's Off The Record last week and said he wants to come back to Ottawa, and wouldn't play for any other NHL team.

The reason why he wouldn't play for any other team is that no one will sign him. Well, at least I don't think anyone will. Hey, when GM John Muckler signed Hasek everyone said he was too old and his groin could explode at any minute. I personally applauded the signing when it happened as it was a bold and risky move. If you want to go a long way, sometimes you have to roll the dice. Sort of like in poker when you're holding Ace-King and your opponent is holding a small pair. It's a coin flip, but you need to be aggressive when you're trying to build a contender.

Of course, it didn't work out, the proverbial Ace-King never pairing up. That's ok, I mean, what's done is done and you can't go back. But you can't consider revisiting this option. Hasek is a flake and is unwilling to play just slightly injured. Every analyst pointed out his injury does not take months to heal, more like weeks at the most. He probably had some discomfort, but he was mentally convinced he could not perform. Or didn't want to perform. And the Senators suffered for it, on and off the ice.

I do think Ottawa needs to go after a veteran goalie. Emery should not be given a full-time slot automatically. If possible, I'd call up Florida and see what they want for Luongo. Package one of Redden or Chara, thrown in Havlat and maybe one of their goalie prospects or perhaps Emery himself. The point is, the Hasek experiement failed, and as Murray said, it's time to move on.