Kyle MacLean remembers late Bob Jones as coach who helped get him to NHL: 'Always looking out for me'

“I wish I did keep in touch with him more,” MacLean told The Post. “Text here, phone call here and there. Jonesy, he was a good coach.”

In the middle of last March, when the Islanders faced the Senators, Kyle MacLean went looking for Bob Jones.

Thursday night’s match in Ottawa was MacLean’s first time there as an NHLer, and naturally, the man who coached him as a young junior player popped into his head. Jones, who spent most of his career in the OHL — working primarily for the Soo Greyhounds, Sudbury Wolves and Windsor Spitfires before Oshawa — was well-equipped to get his kids through it.Assistant Coach Bob Jones of the Ottawa Senators looks on from the bench during player introductions prior to their home opener against the New York Rangers at Canadian Tire Centre on October 5, 2019 in Ottawa.

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