Talks to keep Claude Giroux with the Ottawa Senators have reached a pivotal stage.

Owner Michael Andlauer and Steve Staios, the club’s president of hockey operations and general manager, sat down with Giroux’s Los Angeles-based agent Pat Brisson during last week’s National Hockey League Combine in Buffalo and agreed to continue the talks this week.

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“It takes two sides,” Staios told reporters at the club’s alumni charity golf tournament last Friday. “There’s good dialogue between both sides and I think we want to find some common ground.”

The two agree that the Senators would like to keep the 37-year-old veteran winger and his first choice is to stay. Both sides have now intensified their efforts to finalize a deal that will prevent Giroux from entering unrestricted f

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