‘“It’s always tough to leave the place you started and Tampa did a lot of good things for me,” Conacher said after taking a pregame skate for the first time with his new team, the Ottawa Senators. “I have to give them a lot of credit for the success I’ve had so far this year. At the same time Ottawa is a team on the rise and they’ve been finding ways to win with all the injuries they’ve had this year. They have a lot of young guys and it will be a fun experience for me to play on a Canadian team, to be close to home.”‘