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Alexandre Daigle is standing in the lobby at Bells Sensplex wearing clothes that are now so very out of style for him — hockey pants and hockey socks — along with the perma-grin of someone who is high on life.

Eleven seasons have now passed since he last skated in the National Hockey League, seven since the end of his playing career in Europe, and the first pick of the 1993 entry draft is asked if he misses the game.

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“I don’t,” Daigle says bluntly. “I played since I was eight, man. Can I do something else? Can I?

“It was a great run. Don’t get me wrong. But I fit right in with what I do now. I love it.”

Daigle, one of 15 former Senators at the Sens Alumni & NHL Celebrity Cup on Friday, was in Ottawa for only the third time since retiring. Now 42, he works in the movie industry, running studios for MTL Grande. Daigle still does some travelling — business takes him to Hollywood about once a month — but otherwise lives in Montreal with his wife and their three children, who are too young (nine, seven and five) to understand dad’s previous life.