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For Anderson to be marketable with a $4.75-million cap hit, he has to be playing well and he has been plagued by inconsistency that will probably keep him with the Senators to finish out the year. Anderson has expressed he’d like to play next season, however, his situation won’t be helped if he doesn’t get a new home at the deadline and, at this point, that doesn’t appear to be likely.

Sure, the Florida Panthers need a backup to Sergei Bobrovsky but they don’t have the cap space to take on Anderson’s deal and they’re not going to acquire a guy with an .899 save-percentage unless they feel he’s going to be an upgrade.

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And, Anderson may not be the only one who stays put.

The Senators have 10 unrestricted free agents and general manager Pierre Dorion has a host of decisions to make before the dealing is done, but during his interview with TSN on Thursday night in the first intermission of the Colorado game his most telling comment was when he indicated he’s not going to make a deal just for the sake of making a trade.

“We do have a lot of picks already, we’ve got a lot of prospects coming (and) Belleville is in first place with one of the youngest teams in the minors, so getting picks and prospects just to make a trade this year isn’t something we’re probably going to look at,” Dorion said. “We’re going to make sure we’re going to move the right if we’re going to move players.”

That means some of those players expecting to get moved may be in for a surprise when the deadline passes because they may end up finishing the year with Ottawa.