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TORONTO — Mark Stone is right at home with the Ottawa Senators’ youth movement.

The Senators’ alternate captain and his girlfriend, Hayley Thompson, have invited 19-year-old winger Brady Tkachuk, the No. 4 selection in the NHL draft in June, to live with them at their Ottawa home this season.

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The 26-year-old Stone knows how difficult it can be for a young player on his own in the NHL, and he didn’t want Tkachuk to have to live in a hotel, so the teenager moved in just before the club’s exhibition game against the Chicago Blackhawks last week.

“I stayed in a hotel for two months and it sucked,” Stone told Postmedia following the club’s skate Friday at the Canadian Tire Centre. “You’re always eating out and you don’t have somewhere to just kick your feet. You’re always laying in a bed.

“It’s great that he’s able to get out of the hotel. My girlfriend loves him. He’s very young and immature, so it’s nice to have those personalities around.”