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Originally Posted by Poe969
come on now.... Ference is a lot tougher than stempniak and it's not even close. Stempniak doesn't fight, he'll give clean hits and play somewhat physical but he's not a fighter, ference has fought before. Regardless, Ference pretty much dropped the gloves and started punching stempniak before he could even react. Real tough guy....
As for being the better player, I guess it's a mater of opinion. Ference is a good bottom pairing guy and a terrible top 4 guy. Stempniak is a good third line guy maybe a second line guy in a pinch. They're 2 different players.
I loved what ference did for the Flames while he was here and his 30 something posts must have been some of the best words ever typed to make CP what it is... BUT now and in the past 2 years, I have very little respect hockey wise for ference. He signed with the oilers for big money to "lead" the team and he hasn't. He plays a b!t#* game by fighting guys who don't want to fight or have no business fighting and again....he's an oiler.
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What!!!! Ference was #3 on the Flames in their SC run and was #4 on the Bruins SC team and #3 on the Bruins loser in the 2013 SC final
He has been a top 4 on a SC winner... I don't know what he would have to do to improve on that.
Ference signed with the Oilers as a 34 year old. He signed with the Oilers as his last big chance to make 3.25 M for 4 years.
Stempniak's NHL career seems to be over as a 32 year old.