Chris Kelly was about five minutes tardy arriving for his own, very small news conference at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday afternoon.
“I couldn’t find Gate 3,” he said, prompting a round of laughter after walking through the door of a building he called home for his first six NHL seasons.
The old “better late than never” truly applies in this case.
After witnessing other teams put ridiculous term and great amounts of money toward free agents who might be bought out in two, three or four years, the Senators made their dip into the pool six days after the “frenzy” began.