Jones said being around the rink and continuing his duties with the Ottawa Senators is 'important to me'
For Bob Jones, getting diagnosed with ALS was the toughest news of his life.“I noticed about a year ago that my speech was kind of off,” Jones said. “I quit talking on the phone to a lot of people and I was short with people I know. I didn’t talk in long sentences because I knew was off. When I got back here in September, the coaches noticed and said ‘Something’s going on. You should get tested.
Jones, who has deep ties to the Sault, being born here and playing with the Ontario Hockey League’s Soo Greyhounds before forging on a coaching career that has taking him through the OHL and the pros, said the diagnosis was a shock. “It’s tough. I’ve coached with him for years. I’ve known him for a long time,” Smith said when the Senators announced the diagnosis. “Players love him.”
“It makes us want to just leave it all out there,” Tkachuk said. “We think that a loss or a bad game is the end of the world, but there are people in live going through way harder things. The fact that he wants to be here every step of the way and see all of us as a group and an organization accomplish our dreams, I think that says a lot about the person he is and how much he cares about this team and the players in the locker room.
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