Born in Kanata, Ontario, Mark Borowiecki is the first Ottawa native ever to be drafted by the Ottawa Senators.

From 2006 until 2008, Borowiecki played junior hockey with the Smiths Falls Bears before choosing to play for Clarkson University.  After a 3 year career with Clarkson University (ECAC), Mark was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the fifth round (139th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He then joined the Binghamton Senators and helping them win the 2011 Calder Cup in his first season of professional hockey.

Currently playing in Binghamton with the B-Sens, Mark was first called up to the Ottawa Senators on January 17, 2012 and made his NHL debut on January 19, 2012.

Borowiecki will continue to develop with Binghamton but is expected to crack the Ottawa lineup when play resumes after the 2012-2013 NHL lockout.

 

Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray continues to play an intriguing waiting game. The team’s biggest question mark remains the NHL inexperience at the bottom end of the defence depth chart, filling the holes left injuries to Jared Cowen and Mike Lundin. Meanwhile, every day, it seems, one potential stabilizing veteran defenceman with connections to Ottawa disappears from consideration as a replacement.