New Ottawa Coach Cory Clouston will be behind the bench for his 1st NHL game tonight against Jarret Stoll and the LA Kings.
Here is an except from the Ottawa Citizen.
Cory Clouston, never one to let down his guard, wouldn't even let his closest friends in on the biggest announcement of his hockey career. So, late Sunday, after packing his belongings in Binghamton, New York, Clouston called an old friend in Grande Prairie, Alta., leaving a message for a director of the Tier 2 junior hockey team which gave Clouston his first head coaching job that he might want to keep an eye on TSN. All Clouston's message said was that he wanted to let Don Moon know "something is happening." So even in Grande Prairie, just as in Ottawa, there was more than mild surprise when general manager Bryan Murray tabbed the former coach of the Grande Prairie Storm as the guy to turn around the fortunes of the National Hockey League's Senators. Clouston knows some of the faces in the Senators' room. Brendan Bell, Brian Elliott, Nick Foligno, Brian Lee, Peter Regin and the injured Cody Bass all spent significant time with Clouston. They might have been surprised that he was Murray's choice at this time, but they all left Binghamton thinking Clouston's time would come eventually. "He is all business, he is all work," Bell said. "He's a work-ethic type of guy. He is assertive and he gets his message across, and he's 24/7 at the rink." Said Lee: "He loves hockey and he loves to work, but, if you work hard, you will gain his respect."
Ottawa Citizen