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Pierre Dorion was 20 minutes from having himself a good trade-deadline week.
And then he moved Curtis Lazar.
What the Senators GM retrieved from the Calgary Flames for the 17th overall pick in 2013 is a second-round selection in this spring’s terribly weak entry draft. Lazar also fetched him Jyrki Jokipakka, who will battle Fredrik Claesson for dibs on the job as Ottawa’s seventh defenceman.
Unfortunately, he was unable to get a bag of pucks thrown in, so one day he may have something to show for the deal.
Yes, time will prove that on Wednesday, 20 minutes from 3 p.m. and his first NHL trade deadline, Dorion was hosed.
Forget that Lazar is having just an awful season, with no goals and one assist in 33 games. Forget that his lost confidence has turned him into a defensive-zone liability. Dorion added enough in the past few days that Guy Boucher wouldn’t have had to use Lazar, who arrived at training camp with mono and, before he was dealt, joked that the only way his season could get worse is if it ended with mumps.
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