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PHILADELPHIA - After sitting idle without a first-rounder in the NHL draft, one Ottawa Senators scout was thrilled to get to make some picks on Day 2. "The scouts were happy," general manager Bryan Murray said. "I think somebody shook my hand at the end." That wasnt the handshake Murray went into the weekend hoping for. And try as he did, he was unable to consummate a trade to give centre Jason Spezza his wish to leave Ottawa. "I called the teams or took calls from teams that were interested," Murray said Saturday. "We talked about the return, the type of deal we wanted to make. In a couple of cases there was real interest and it went away. So I dont know whether it was because of the draft and on the day of the draft picks are very valuable, whether that was part of it or it was something different." Murray wanted a first-round pick, a roster player and a prospect for his captain, who has a limited no-trade clause and thus the power to refuse to go to 10 teams. One of those 10 is Nashville, which had a deal worked out to get Spezza that couldnt go through because he didnt agree to go to the Predators. "David (Poile) talked to me and we couldnt go there," Murray said. "I told (Spezzas agent) Rick Curran that today, I had a deal sitting there if I wanted to do it, but he was on the list of no-gos." A Senators-Predators deal mightve landed Ottawa the 11th pick. Instead, Poile pulled the trigger on getting winger James Neal from the Pittsburgh Penguins for Patric Hornqvist and Nick Spaling. Considering that and the Anaheim Ducks trade with the Vancouver Canucks for centre Ryan Kesler, Murray knows that "the field narrows a little bit." Murray estimated that he talked to four or five teams about Spezza and that three expressed fairly serious interest. It never worked out, leaving everyone in the situation still hanging. “Im sure its disappointing for him, its disappointing for me because Id like to accommodate him if I could, but he does have a year left on his contract," Murray said. "If thats the case well have a pretty good player for next year." Or its possible that teams circle back to the Senators after July 1 if they dont land Paul Stastny or another free-agent centre. As far as Ottawas approach to the start of free agency, thats affected by Spezza, too. "I dont know, thats the problem," Murray said. "Part of your decision is what can you spend, where does it fit and what do you get in return for a certain player? If you dont know that, then its harder." Unable to get anything done on the Spezza front, the Senators made five picks to stock up for the future. They took defenceman Andreas Englund 40th, defenceman Miles Gendron 70th, forward Shane Eiserman 100th, defenceman Kelly Summers 189th and left-winger Francis Perron 190th. The 189th pick, a seventh-rounder, Ottawa got from the Winnipeg Jets for a 2015 sixth-rounder. That was the only trade Murray was able to make in Philadelphia. "It just seemed to me there were a lot of phone calls, a lot of talking, people interested, but nothing really happened," he said. "I had to make one trade at the end, a seventh-round pick for the sixth next year just to say I did something. So that was my accomplishment." Discount NBA Jerseys .In a statement released Friday, the Catalan club said the Brazil stars recovery would be monitored to determine when he can begin training again. 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Thats what makes their team dangerous.Alex Killorn scored for the Lightning, who completed a season-opening four game homestand at 2-1-1. Nabokov stopped 23 shots in his Tampa Bay debut.It was just OK, Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said of the homestand. Getting five out of eight points is decent. I truly believe youve got to be even better than that at home. But, five points is better than zero points.With Lightning star Steven Stamkos serving a minor penalty, Cammalleri gave New Jersey a 2-1 lead from near the post at 11:19 of the third.Killorn tied it 1-all by beating Schneider from in-close off a nifty pass from Tyler Johnson 8:59 into the third.Zajac put the Devils up 1-0 with a rebound goal 7:38 into the second after Nabokov stopped the centres initial shot.The Lightning had the first sevven shots, including a wraparound by Nikita Kucherov that Schneider and forward Tuomo Ruutu combined to stop along the goal line.dddddddddddd The no-goal call was upheld by a video review.Sometimes you need a break like that early on in a road game and we ran with it, Schneider said.Nabokov made a post-to-post save on Michael Ryders in-close shot late in the first and stopped Jaromir Jagrs third-period breakaway backhander.Thats why people tell you good luck sometimes, Nabokov said of the Ryder save. It hit a little bit of my stick. That was the luck.Nabokov was signed as a free agent in July to backup Ben Bishop.Ondrej Palat hit the post on an early second-period power play for Tampa Bay.Schneider made a point-blank save on Valtteri Filppula during the opening minute of third.Obviously, Schneider was fantastic, Devils coach Peter DeBoer said. Were getting contributions from a lot of different areas right now, and thats what it takes to win.NOTES: Tampa Bay rookie F Jonathan Drouin (broken right thumb) resumed taking faceoffs in practice and expects to soon add contact drills. Were just happy with the progress so far, Drouin said. Its getting closer and closer now. Drouin still has some pain in the thumb. ... Jagr played in his 1,476th NHL game, which is eight away from tying Rod BrindAmour for 18th place all-time. ... Lightning D Radko Gudas didnt play due to a lower-body injury. ... New Jersey F Patrik Elias had an assist and tied Dino Ciccarelli for 80th place all-time with 592. ' ' '