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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
the one thing that's pretty clear when you watch Ference is that he's just not that much of an NHL player anymore, he struggles to keep up with the play, makes bad decisions and has slow feet.
I get why the Oilers wanted him so badly. But on most teams he's probably a 7th defenseman at best.
This is addition through subtraction for the Oilers.
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to be honest, those are all ways to describe ference when he was a flame also. In his last year, he was an obvious weak link, as i remember almost every team made it a strategy to dump it into his corner when playing the flames. He was a strong presence in the locker room for that group and moving him out had a larger/intangible impact on that team of course (probably something the oilers targeted him for). Giving him the C was a completely unpredicted, and let's just call it for what it was, a stupid (aka No Good) move.