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By now, the Senators should be finishing up their first week of training camp. Local sports talk would be knee-deep in rink reports on the progress of such promising prospects as Jakob Silfverberg, Mark Stone and Mika Zibanejad. Instead, those three and other young Senators are in Binghamton, N.Y., getting for the start of the B-Sens AHL camp. Not first prize, in other words.

Erik Karlsson isn’t heading home to Sweden after all. After revealing last week he planned to spend the NHL lockout playing for former squad Frolunda, the Senators’ star defenceman was instead scooped up by Helsinki-based Jokerit of the Finnish Elite League (SM-liiga) Wednesday.

The path is seemingly clear for Erik Karlsson to go back home to Sweden and receive the red carpet treatment, playing for as long as the National Hockey League lockout lasts. Karlsson wants to return to Frolunda, where he was a star for two seasons before going on to even greater fame here with the [...]