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Avs Dismissed GM Not Shocked By Firing
by Paul on 04/25/09 at 09:50 PM ET
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from Adrian Dater of the Denver Post,
In the nearly two weeks since being fired as general manager from the Avalanche, Francois Giguere has mostly stayed quiet. While he hopes to work again in NHL management, Giguere believes getting away from it all awhile longer might not be a bad thing.
“Being a manager in the NHL is a job you do 2 4/7/365. That’s the way it was for three years for me, so I realize maybe taking some time away and being with my family more might be good for me,” Giguere said.
Giguere, 45, said he holds no bitterness toward the Avalanche. He called the dismissal “a surprise, but not a shock” because of the team’s poor performance this past season.
“When you have a year like we did, you know there might be a change,” he said. “It was just one of those years. But most everything good that has happened to me in my career in hockey has happened with the Avalanche organization, so I still have nothing but good memories.”
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