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The Senators are content to stay at No. 19 unless they get a sense a player they covet may be taken by somebody else. If that’s the case, Dorion and chief scout Trent Mann will discuss making a move because the club has no shortage of draft picks, but that would likely be a last-minute decision based on scenarios being talked about now.

Dorion told reporters during an availability Monday at the Canadian Tire Centre that there’s no clear direction to the route this first round is going to take and it’s hard to predict what might happen after the first two picks.

“It’s a very volatile draft,” Dorion said. “Everybody knows who’s going to go No. 1 (Jack Hughes) and No. 2 (Kaapo Kakko). Our scouts have a grouping of No. 3 to No. 9, and then from No. 9 to No. 19 there could be a lot of volatility. That tells us that we could end up with a really good player.

“That opens the door to moving up, maybe staying in our spot, and with us having pick No. 32 and No. 44 and having numerous picks in the next two drafts — we’ve got three seconds next year with ours, Columbus and Dallas, and (they will have) three seconds in 2021 with ours, Columbus and (San Jose).

“When you have that number of second-rounders, and a lot of players are coming out of the second round, it really gives us the opportunity to do a lot of good things for this organization.”

Should the Senators hold onto the No. 19 selection, and it certainly appears at this point that they will, then there will be a long list of candidates to choose from, according to Dorion, Mann and the staff.