Prior to the 2021-22 campaign, Ottawa Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said "the rebuild is done" and "it's time to start winning." Now, after another year of missing the playoffs, it appears he's putting matters into his own hands.

Dorion said Wednesday that he's willing to trade the seventh overall pick in the upcoming draft if it nets an "impact player."

"I think we got to look at everything," Dorion told TSN 1200 when asked if the team's first-round pick is in play.

He added: "Maybe this is the year that we move pick seven to get an impact player that can help us right away. We're not going to get a guy that's a pending (unrestricted free agent) in a year's time. I don't think that would be really smart for us to do. But if we can get a guy that we know we will have some control over for more than a few years, that's something we'd definitely look at."