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Jimmy D. Tried To Get Bourque In the Winged Wheel Sweater

by Paul on 11/08/10 at 02:29 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

“One of the guys that I always tried to make a pitch for late in his career, I tried three or four times, was to acquire Raymond Bourque,” Devellano said Monday morning during his Hockey Hall of Fame media availability. “He was getting a little older but I knew he could still play. He’d be terrific under Scotty Bowman for a few more years. I thought we could win a Cup with Raymond Bourque.”

The former Detroit GM, set for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday, said he kept trying but realized after a while that the Bruins would never trade him to Detroit.

“We had had some squabbles with Boston over the years, mainly because they thought we spent too much money,” Devellano said.

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Afternoon Line

by Paul on 07/23/09 at 04:34 PM ET
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Up front, we’ve lost 82 goals, between Samuelsson, Hudler, and Hossa, we’ve lost 82 goals. There aren’t many hockey teams that can afford that, us included, so we’re a little bit, um, concerned, to put it mildly, but we’re going to try to be active and try to get it at least half figured out, but, the salary cap has caught up to us.

-Detroit Red Wings Senior VP Jimmy Devellano.  More from George Malik of SnapShots at Mlive…

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