Article content

Pierre Dorion has made his list and he’s checking it twice.

The goal: To find the right man to take the Senators back to respectability and to the post-season next spring.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Senators general manager Dorion looking for Mr. Right Coach Back to video

After making the playoffs last spring, the fall was fast and sharp for the Senators last season. Owner Eugene Melnyk promised there would be “key changes” and it didn’t take long for those to start to happen with GM Bryan Murray handing the reins over to the 43-year-old Dorion the day after the season.

It didn’t stop there, either.

Only three days on the job, Dorion didn’t waste any time sending coach Dave Cameron, along with assistants Andre Tourigny and Rick Wamsley, packing.

The Senators planned to reassign former defenceman Jason Smith, but it appears he’s going to take a pass on a new role and move elsewhere.

Times, they are a changing, as the saying goes.

Dorion, who has a wealth of NHL experience as an assistant GM, player personnel director and a scout, has his work cut out for him in this search to replace Cameron because it’s paramount that the Senators make the right hire to stop what has been a revolving door behind the club’s bench.