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Derick Brassard needed time to adjust to playing for Ottawa Senators

OTTAWA — Derick Brassard’s corner locker at the Canadian Tire Centre is about as far away from the door of the room as possible.

After Thursday’s morning skate ahead of Game 1 of the Senators’ Eastern Conference semifinal series, the former Rangers center had taken off his No. 19 jersey and fiddled with the red string on his hockey pants as he politely, as has been his trademark, answered questions in English and French.

He rose to shake hands with a few familiar faces from the New York press, then sat and began toying with the string again as if it were some type of tactile support for his responses.