CALGARY — The admiration between Morgan Rielly and Mark Giordano goes beyond the rink. “I love the way he plays,” said Giordano, a Toronto native and captain of the Calgary Flames. “I think so, but he has been a good player before this year,” said Rielly, in his sixth season on the Leafs blue line. That’s probably the most impressive part of it.”Both Giordano and Rielly count Mike Stothers as an important figure in their formative hockey years. Stothers, now coaching the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League, had Giordano with the Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League from 2002-04.

Source: National Post March 05, 2019 03:45 UTC