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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
Nieuwendyk being honored as Forever a Flame? Or has that already happened?
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Did a couple seasons ago.
So Bennett (still a rookie) moves up, Jooris down to a non-training camp number, Bollig away from 25 (for some reason, likely had that in CHI?) and new free agent gets a high number.
Expanded as said, but I don't think Burke's rules around this are gone for good. When Jagr comes here at the deadline, I'm sure #68 will be ok.
Also, I think the league has some sort of rules, certainly for established/star players, that numbers can't be switched around "just because", because of the league wide merchandising.