In a surprising reversal, the NHL has decided the Ottawa Senators will no longer forfeit a first-round draft pick for their role in a cancelled 2022 trade between Vegas and Anaheim involving winger Evgenii Dadonov. Rather than giving up their first-round pick in June's NHL Draft, the Senators will select last (32nd overall) in the first round and pay a $1 million fine in Canadian dollars. That money goes to the NHL Foundation Canada, a league-sponsored charitable organization. When the Senators traded Dadonov to the Golden Knights in July 2021, there was no mention that the winger had trade protection. The contract he signed with Ottawa in October 2020 had a clause that stated he couldn't be traded without first submitting a 10-team no-trade list. Vegas then traded Dadonov to the Ducks in March 2022, unaware that Anaheim was on his 10-team no-trade list, which had been submitted to Ottawa for the 2021-22 season by the stated deadline in his contract.…