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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

{allcanada} Spezza traded by Senators to Stars: report

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The Ottawa Senators traded center Jason Spezza to the Dallas Stars on Tuesday, according to multiple media reports. In exchange for Spezza, the Senators reportedly will receive forwards Alex Chiasson, Nicholas Paul and Alexander Guptill, plus a second-round draft pick in 2015. The Stars also reportedly received forward Ludwig Karlsson.

Spezza has one year remaining on a contract that carries a $7 million salary-cap charge. However, he is owed only $4 million in real money as he already been has paid $45 million of the $49 million total value of his contract.

He likely will be the Stars' second-line center behind Tyler Seguin, who had 37 goals and 84 points in 80 games last season, his first in Dallas.

Spezza has played his entire career for the Senators. He has 251 goals and 687 points in 686 games. Ottawa selected him with the No. 2 pick in the 2001 NHL Draft. He has played at least 60 games in nine of the past 10 seasons. A back injury kept him out of all but five games in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season.

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