from Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun,

The Senators want to use their off-season to sell season tickets and if they don’t get a deal done for Spezza while teams are engaged in the process this could be another summer-long saga.

“The player has signed a contract. I would suspect that there will be further conversations,” said Murray.

“This is not a deadline by any means. We don’t start hockey until mid-September.

“We have a number of things that could happen. It’s just a matter of having conversations with the right people. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t we have a really good player on our team.”

This doesn’t mean a deal is dead by any means, however, Murray is willing to be patient to get what he wants that wasn’t on the table here.

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