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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
I think it's more a statement about what kind of guy Okotoker is.
We may not have lost a top 4 defenceman when we traded him away, but we certainly lost a lot of the personality and drive of that 04 team. You saw it in how he played, how he was willing to trust Sutter and take a lower contract, and how he conducted himself on CP.
Good for him.
I now hate him though.
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This.
Ference is a consumate pro, and watching him even after he went to Boston, he exudes all the qualities of a leader....something very much lacking in Edmonton.
This has "good signing" written all over it in July, and now looks to be even better as he is precisely what that team has needed for a long time now. He is a "been there, done that" guy that none of the young bucks can question even a little bit.
I fear that team is truly now on the right track to start making noise in this league.
Hate it too.