It was different, but not exactly in the way Joe Montana once wore a Chiefs jersey or Michael Jordan once shot jumpers for the Wizards or Johnny Unitas once played football for the Chargers.
Not that anyone on the Pittsburgh Penguins would compare Marc-Andre Fleury to frying an egg too long.
Those folks with the Baltimore Colts were a little nuts back in the day.
It was different in the way that when the best player at his position in a franchise’s history meets his former team for the first time while a member of another, emotions seem to rise far beyond the boards and glass of a hockey rink.