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Originally Posted by getbak
This says it all right here...
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Well hold on a sec here....
"it was a waste of years in your NHL career, where it’s just you never get those back."
While hes not wrong on that account, he also made way, way more money slumming it in Edmonton than he ever would have anywhere else.
He won his Cup in Boston and then cashed in and cashed in hard on Katz's dime.
He may been a 4-5 defenceman but he was making 2-3 money that was not on anyone else's table.
Its hard to listen to someone complain about winning the Cup and then phoning in the end of their career on the back on some very generous paycheques.
Edmonton is No Good but sorry Andy, if you wanted Job Satisfaction more than money then thats all you had to do. Take a lot less money to play for a much better team.
But I doubt when that contract offer was on the table his altruism-alarm was screaming that he didnt deserve that much money and that he should take less to fit into the cap of a good team.
And then theres the fact that he was a 4-5 Dman on Edmonton. The worst team in the League. He could take less money but he'd have been risking AHL or pressbox time.
I always liked Ference until he became a cheap-shotting Oiler. He very literally got his cake and got to eat it too at the expense of the Oilers, the only drawback was having to live in Dumpmonton and having to haul that horrid Oil-drop over his head on an almost nightly basis.
But he could wipe his tears with money.