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The Ottawa Senators have made a step in the right direction as they suit up for Game 41 of the regular season Tuesday night at the Canadian Tire Centre.

Now, they have to find a way to run the table with back-to-back wins over the Chicago Blackhawks and Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday before an eight-day break in the schedule begins Thursday.

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As the Senators reach the midpoint of the schedule, alternate captain Dion Phaneuf noted after a one-hour skate Monday the club has to find a way to get back to playing the kind of hockey that has made them successful in the past.

“The one thing we could really work on to climb back in is our consistency,” said Phaneuf. “That has been what has hurt us this year is we’ve played to our strengths and our capabilities and then our consistency would drop off.

“We’re at the halfway mark and we’ve just got to continue to build our game and carry over the way we’ve been playing. I look at the weekend and we beat two really good teams and the way that we played (is that) we played fast. We moved the puck fast. I’m not talking fast in skating. We’re a transition team when we move the puck. Our top two lines played very well.”