“One of the main reasons I didn’t want Montreal to draft me is because they were sending about 98 percent of their young guys and draft picks to Nova Scotia of the AHL,” $%#@! told Slap Shots on Friday. “Honestly, I don’t think I would have gotten a fair chance to make the team unless they put me with veterans in training camp where I could fill the net and not given them a choice.”

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