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Originally Posted by New Era
Gary Roberts who played with Nieuwendyk and Loob? He was 21 when that line first tasted success, then was only 22 when they won the cup and where he was a key player on the team. The next year he would score 39 goals, then two years later break the 50 goal barrier at age 25. When was he a bubble player?
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I never said he WAS a bubble player. I said he drove me a little bit nuts so I wondered if he would be more than that. I was quite clearly, happily and obviously wrong.
He was playing with pretty good players and 22 goals in that era isn't the same as now. He obviously played on an awesome team but he took a lot of dumb penalties and kind of drove ME nuts. In the end I was wrong and he became a favorite,
It is almost like I had an unhealthy obsession with criticizing his every play and it affected how I looked at him as a player.