The gap between the Ottawa Senators and Shane Pinto is large

Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen: Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto is in the last year of his contract that carries a $3.75 million cap hit. Senators GM Steve Staios has said multiple times that extension talks with agent Lewis Gross over the offseason were “positive.”

“Their side said they wanted to let the season start and not have any distractions,” Staios told TSN’s Claire Hanna and Marc Denis on (last week). “We’re open to talking with Shane. We think that we want to make him part of this core group.

“He knows that. We know that. And, watching him grow with the group is important for us.”

Sources say there is a large gap in what the Senators and Pinto’s camp think is fair market value. On insider thinks the Senato

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