Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray on the captain deciding to return for one more season.
Yep, that’s Ottawa Senators 2012 first round draft pick Cody Ceci getting his jersey signed by former Ottawa Senators goalie Damian Rhodes. Below, Ceci and his sister Chelsea meet Daniel Alfredsson the same year.
It’s hard to imagine now — when Daniel Alfredsson reigns as Ottawa’s Swedish-born king, with Erik Karlsson the well-heeled heir apparent — but Swedes weren’t always so prevalent among the ranks of the Ottawa Senators.
The odds are long that the Ottawa Senators will land a superstar with the 15th pick in the first round of this year’s draft. They’ll get a competent NHL player, certainly. Given the recent track record of director of player personnel Pierre Dorion and his scouts, it’d be a disappointment if they didn’t.
The waiting game continues for Ottawa Senators Daniel Alfredsson.
Daniel Alfredsson has yet to decide whether he’ll be back with the Ottawa Senators as a player next year, but if he does decide to pack it in, don’t expect him behind the bench.
Even if Daniel Alfredsson decides to retire as a player, he’ll be with the Ottawa Senators in some capacity next year, either as an assistant with head coach Paul MacLean or as an assistant to general manager Bryan Murray. That was the prediction of MacLean in an interview with Hockey Night Night in Canada radio on Tuesday night.