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Ottawa Senators fire general manager Pierre Dorion

The Ottawa Senators are relieving Pierre Dorion of his responsibilities as the team's general manager after parts of eight seasons at the helm.

This move comes only hours after the NHL ruled that the Senators would have to forfeit a first-round pick of their choosing in the next three years for their role in the botched Yevgeni Dadonov trade from the Vegas Golden Knights to the Anaheim Ducks at the 2021 trade deadline.

This ruling was clearly the tipping point, but it's always felt more like a matter of when than if for Dorion.

There's a new ownership group in Ottawa, led by Michael Andlauer, and such a change at the top of the organization usually comes with upheaval in the executive suite – you gotta get your guy, and so on.

Which says nothing of the fact that Dorion's record alone is such t

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