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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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Ference was on the fan960 morning show last week. He had a few good moments with Rhett. But they both agreed that it was weird the way he was traded, Andy made a cryptic comment about how close everyone was and that they all knew how each others' contract negotiations were going (hint to a broken promise from Darryl methinks), and that a lot of the trust on that team was lost when Ference was dealt.
It wasn't just who we lost but what it meant that we lost him and how it happened. That was among Darryl's bigger mistakes (and that's a tough list to top).