Now playing for a coach he once ‘couldn’t say a nice thing about,’ Mark Stone returns to Ottawa amid big changes for the Golden Knights. (by HockeyScanner)
Hours before one of the most popular players to ever wear a Senators uniform would be saluted by fans in Ottawa,“He left such an impression on the players here, this team, this organization and this community,” said alternate captain Mark Borowiecki, who played with Stone for all the big winger’s six seasons in Ottawa.
“It didn’t matter what the situation was, he was always giving 100 per cent,” Anderson said. “His drive, passion, attention to detail was second to none.”, but still smarting from the coach firing on the day before his reunion game. Head coach Gerard Gallant and assistant Mike Kelly were let go on Wednesday. Gallant was replaced by former San Jose Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer.
“It was weird,” Stone admitted when he heard DeBoer was now the Knights coach. “Ten months ago, I couldn’t say a nice thing about him. We don’t say anything nice about the Sharks in this room.” He was laughing out loud at this point, this coach who arrived in Ottawa hastily, with no suit or skates or game plan on a game-day morning.
Sixth-rounders like Stone don’t come around too often, perhaps every 16 years or so. Franchise icon Daniel Alfredsson was a sixth-round pick in 1994.
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