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IRVING, Texas -- Justin Durant was as sick as anyone to see Sean Lee go down with a torn knee ligament in the first off-season practice for the Dallas Cowboys. Kyrie Irving Youth Jersey . To suggest the injury gives Durant an opportunity to be the starting middle linebacker sort of turns the eight-year veterans stomach. "It hurt me seriously to my core," Durant said of the left ACL injury that is likely to keep Lee out in 2014. "I just look at it as my trying to step up and fill some big shoes." Durant isnt the only option under consideration by the Cowboys, who still havent specified Lees injury or said how long they expect him to be sidelined. Fourth-round pick Anthony Hitchens wasnt far behind Durant for the start of the second week of off-season practice Monday, the same day Hitchens signed his rookie contract. And second-year player DeVonte Holloman worked off to the side, nursing a sore hamstring. If one of those three isnt at the centre of the Dallas defence in the season opener against San Francisco in about three months, it will probably be someone off the streets. The Cowboys arent in a hurry to decide. "I dont have timetables," linebackers coach Matt Eberflus said. "I really dont. Like I said, just working with whos on the grass." Durant and Holloman started the last three games of 2013 after Lee was sidelined by a neck injury. Durant made the first of those three starts before a hamstring injury sidelined him. Holloman took the last two, and had the first two sacks of his career in the season finale against Philadelphia. But Holloman hasnt made it the practice field this off-season because of a hamstring injury after the sixth-round pick missed seven games his rookie season with a neck problem. And he was drafted as an outside linebacker. "The reason hes valuable is hes got position flex," Eberflus said. "Where he fits in the lineup Im not sure yet. But hell decide that with his play." A year after coming to Dallas as a free agent who figured to be a backup, Durant finds himself by far the most experienced option to replace Lee. And that could mean a more vocal role for a guy who blended into the background his first year with the Cowboys. "Sean of course is a huge leader on our defence," said Durant, who has started 74 of 89 games in his first seven years. "Im going to be me but Im also going to step up and Im going step in and do some things sometimes." Hitchens was drafted a couple of rounds earlier than most projections, with Dallas thinking about insurance after Lee missed almost half the previous two seasons with injuries. The Cowboys didnt figure on having to cash in on that policy so quickly. "I just take it as this is my job and this is what they brought me in here for," Hitchens said. "I signed up for this. I usually dont look ahead." If hes looking ahead, coach Jason Garrett isnt saying. 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His second came on a high wrist shot over Ottawa goalie Robin Lehners glove.I dont know if the net looked that big or if my eyes just looked that big, Fraser said. I was glad that both pucks went in.Carl Soderberg assisted on both of Frasers goals and Tuukka Rask made 28 saves for the Bruins, who have won three of four. They had one of their most solid games since defenceman Zdeno Chara injured his left knee Oct. 23.Rask said the Bruins just passed the puck better than they had been.That hasnt been our strength in the past games. Its kind of been up and down, Rask said. We need crisp passes and tape-to-tape passes because that helps us to break out and gives us the edge. Today was a good example of that.Brad Marchand and Dennis Seidenberg also scored for Boston, which held Ottawa to five shots in the first period. The Senators felt fortunate that one got past Rask when MMark Stone scored on a breakaway with 28 seconds left in the first period. Corey Brewer Jersey. There were stretches of the game where I thought we played well, but we never established much of a forecheck all night. They were getting out of their zone quite easily, Stone said.Mika Zibanejad added a goal for the Senators in the third, and Lehner finished with 25 saves.The Senators never recovered after Frasers goals in the second quickly turned a 1-all tie into a 3-1 lead for Boston. Fraser had three career goals entering the game.He certainly didnt miss his opportunity tonight, Boston coach Claude Julien said.Marchand scored the games first goal with 1:06 left in the first. Patrice Bergeron assisted, winning a faceoff and slipping the puck behind him to Marchand for a shot that got through Lehners pads and trickled over the goal line.The Senators answered with a late goal of their own when Stone stole the puck from Seidenberg and beat Rask on a breakaway to tie it.Tough break on that goal there, but we didnt let that deflate us. 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