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Ottawa Senators veterans Mark Borowiecki and Jean-Gabriel Pageau plan on taking action inside the dressing room as soon as possible.

A string of off-ice controversies that began late in the 2017-18 season and have extended well into summer can’t be repeated again, the two National Hockey League regulars said Monday.

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“There are certain things we can actively try and change as a group,” Borowiecki said.

“If we are just going to sit here passively and say, ‘We need the culture to change,’ well, the culture doesn’t just change. It changes because we have a group of guys that rally together and say, ‘This is the way it’s going to be done,’ that this is how we expect them to come in and handle their off-ice issues.

“It’s time for us as a somewhat veteran leadership group to come together and do that.”

Borowiecki skated Monday as part of an informal scrimmage group that also included fellow Senators veterans Pageau, Mark Stone and Cody Ceci. Training camp hopefuls Ben Harpur, Logan Brown, Max McCormick, Ben Sexton and other pro players who call Ottawa home in the off-season also took part.