SCANLAN: Original Sens owner Bruce Firestone sees LeBreton — and Ottawa — in team's future

NHL hockey at LeBreton Flats is close enough to reality for fans to imagine the possibilities.
Bruce Firestone, the original Senators owner, imagined it, too, back in 1987. He recalls a conversation with the late Jean Pigott, then-chair of the National Capital Commission, going something like this when he inquired about putting an NHL rink on NCC lands. (First, of course, he would have to acquire an NHL franchise). 
“Bruce, do you want the public or private answer?” Firestone re