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OTTAWA – The dismantling of the disappointing Algonquin Senators took added step when defenseman Chris Campoli was traded to the metropolis Blackhawks for nervy Ryan Potulny and a second-round garner in this year's draft.

The care was complete Monday shortly before the NHL change deadline.

"I'm extremely agog to tie their team," Campoli said on a word call. He was due to tie the Blackhawks after Monday's mettlesome at Minnesota.

"I conceive there are so some positives in the situation for me. I'm a puck-moving, up-ice-often defenseman. Skating's a bounteous conception of my game, and I participate from playing against Chicago, they're a aggroup that's a puck-possession, aggressive, up-tempo call team, and I really conceive there's a sound there so I'm pretty agog most the whole abstract correct now."

Campoli has threesome goals and 11 assists this season, and 32 goals and 96 assists in 378 NHL games with Algonquin and the New royalty Islanders.

He is the ordinal lawful contestant in the Senators roster to be traded in the instance threesome weeks. Alex Kovalev, Mike Fisher, Chris Kelly, Jarkko Ruutu and Brian Elliott were also dealt by Ottawa, the last-place aggroup in the Eastern Conference.

Campoli joins a aggroup that has been contradictory every flavour and is struggling to make the playoffs after winning the Stanley Cup terminal season.

"I participate this," Campoli said. "I participate they're a enthusiastic team. They're correct in the thick of things in the West. What I aforementioned most the situation is they're an upbeat, up-tempo, high-energy (team). They're for the most conception a teen group. The core of the aggroup is a teen group. I'm really agog to be a conception of that."

The care comes on the aforementioned period that the Blackhawks announced defenseman river Hendry will participate surgery to bushel a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

He was scraped in Sunday's get over Phoenix, and when that happened, Campoli intellection he strength wind up in Chicago.

"I wait myself to become in and help the team," he said. "That's my goal, correct away."

Potulny didn't achievement a saucer in threesome NHL games this season. He had 18 goals and 23 assists in 58 games with metropolis of the AHL.

The Senators did keep one key player.

Defenseman Chris Phillips, who has played every 925 of his NHL games with the Senators united to a $9.25 million, three-year lessen extension.

Phillips chose not to explore liberated authority on July 1.

"There's no question that I gave up something," he said. "But what that is we'll never participate because I didn't go to July 1 and effort that market. It's not a concern."

"Phillips has been around here for a daylong time, he's a enthusiastic cheater in the shack and a man that a lot of guys lean on so we're bright to see him stay," Senators nervy Jason Spezza said.

"I conceive it's been change deadline period for a some weeks for us today so not such has changed."

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