The whole jersey retirement is a funny concept. It's 100% arbitrary and up to the franchise to decide the parameters, yet fans naturally have their own criteria.
I think for our franchise, with its age and fairly mild success with one championship in 39 years - 3 retired numbers seems about right.
If we go and retire #25, #2, #14, #34 as some have expressed, then we are looking at 7 numbers retired and in all honestly, should our franchise have 7 numbers retired? At some point it would start to feel smug, and a little bit Oiler-ish.
These are all great players but it starts to feel a little bit boastful, to me.
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