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Why Bergeron?
by Alanah McGinley on 06/11/08 at 08:40 AM ET
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From Michael Russo at Russo’s Rants,
As for the big-shot Bergeron, I talked to Risebrough twice Tuesday, once before his flight to Toronto for the goalie equipment trimming meetings and once after. He believes Bergeron will be a guy who can play regular minutes, not just a bunch of power-play minutes. He says part of the motivation was to be a fill-in for Foster while he’s out, but “that doesn’t mean it’s one or the other. It will be an improvement to have both when Foster’s back.”
Bergeron has a club option for next year at $1.653 million. The Ducks almost certainly wouldn’t have exercised that. So why didn’t the Wild wait for free agency? Risebrough says other teams were interested in Bergeron, and Brian Burke was definitely going to trade him. In other words, he wouldn’t make free agency, according to Risebrough.
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I’m sorry for the confusion and I appreciate the input. Though I will say, this article notes that Russo spoke to Doug Risebrough, and the hockey dad article specifically states John Osgood is being quoted.
But I’ll try and highlight such things better in future.
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 06/11/08 at 09:07 AM ET
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I’ve complained about this before, but it seems like it’s getting worse. Please, please, please put more information about who/what the article is about! For example: “Michael Russo comments about Marc-André Bergeron’s recent trade from Anaheim to Minnesota.” Or for the article about a hockey dad who was nervous during the closing seconds of Game 6, who the heck is the article quoting? I’m tired of reading excerpts from articles when I have no idea what I’m reading about.
Posted by Muero from Ohio on 06/11/08 at 08:58 AM ET