Obviously Roberts, the Flames giving up on him for liability issues was sad, but really, it probably motivated him that much more to turn into the player he ended up being, the strict fitness and strength freak he was.
Honorable mention to Lowry.
Dave Lowry as the former captain, got sent down to the minors by Gilbert. He played 22 games down there in 2002, Sutter became coach,and he was back up.
He tore some internal muscles in a game January 2004.
He didn’t come back until the Wings series where he lasted one game, then had to sit a game, then played the rest of the games. He got the hard hat that game, and the next game, gave the hard hat to black ace Turek, who hadn’t played a game that playoffs yet.
He was inches away from being the first assist on Marcus Nilson’s Game 6 Ot SCF winner vs Tampa, where Khabibhulin has to look back as it almost sneaked through and would’ve taken the roof off the place.
Also, his intentional flip of the puck over the glass with 15 seconds left in the Ducks brawl, knowing that a whistle would allow Berube to come out of the box and exact some punishment on the Ducks, was also a highlight. 1915 mark
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