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Another glaring issue in Ottawa? The lack of a transition game

By Pierre LeBrun

Monday, February 2, 2009

Zdeno Chara. Joe Corvo. Tom Preissing. Andrej Meszaros. Wade Redden. Those are five puck-moving defensemen, obviously of varying degrees of talent, but nevertheless five players who help key the transition game in the NHL. All five have left the Ottawa Senators over the past three and a half years, none of them really replaced by a comparable puck-moving blueliner. The result? "That is the worst part of their team right now," an NHL executive told ESPN.com on Monday. "They've lost every puc ...

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