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PHOTO: Paul MacLean's doppelganger returns; drinks a cold one

Jerome Miron / USA Today

Paul MacLean - Ottawa's bug-eyed walrus of a coach - has a lookalike who broke Twitter last season when he sat behind the Senators' bench during a home game.

Well, he's back for Ottawa's game against the New York Islanders on Wednesday:

The man is Mike Watson, who was making use of his company's seats to see his first game in two years when he became a meme last January. MacLean joked at the time that Watson was probably "a better interview than me."

Unlike MacLean, Watson is free from the pressures of coaching an NHL team, so he can kick back and enjoy a cold one while MacLean tries to steer his team into the playoffs:

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