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Originally Posted by browna
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.
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Oh was that why he left? I was still fairly young so maybe I wasn't quite up to snuff on all the details regarding his departure...but I thought he requested to play in the Eastern Conference because his back couldn't handle all the extra travel of a Western Conference team.
I thought he only had a couple years left at that point, I remember being a little salty that he ended up playing over a decade after that and remained an impact player, as I felt that meant he had exaggerated his pain just to get out of Calgary (not saying that's the case, it's just where my spurned feelings went as a lad). He was such a warrior.