Mark Stone is almost everything a coach could want in a player: dependable, hard-working and he has elite-level skills.
Ask Ottawa bench boss Guy Boucher about his star forward and you'll get a lengthy testimonial about the 25-year-old left-winger's value to the Senators.
"It's less about trying to find somebody for him," said Boucher before the Sens game against the Jets at Bell MTS Place Sunday night (6 p.m., Sportsnet, TSN 1290). "It's the opposite. Everybody we put with him will work but I only have one Stone. So, I wish I had three, four or five (of him).