Less than 24 hours after Ottawa’s exceptional win over the Eastern Conference leading Washington Capitals, the Senators called a press conference for 11 am yesterday to announce a major shakeup within the organization’s hierarchy.
Gone is one of the team’s founding fathers.
After spending 25 years with the organization, not including the years spent pre-ll, Cyril Leeder stepped down immediately as the team’s president.
Leeder had been with the organization for each of its 25 years and his involvement goes back years earlier when Bruce Firestone approached Randy Sexton and Cyril Leeder to help spearhead his efforts to bring an NHL hockey team back to the nation’s capital.