BY: John Bishop

BostonBruins.com -- Mark Recchi has been around a long time. A long, long time.

Obviously, that's nothing you haven't read before. However, it is worth celebrating. When I recently called Recchi, he reveled in the thought that he is old enough to be the father of some of his teammates.

"It’s true," he said with a rye chuckle. "Steven Stamkos, you know I played a few years back when I was 39 or 38 and while I was in Pittsburgh here and I was on a line with Malkin and Staal and they weren’t even as old as me -- put together!

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