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To avoid the contract discussion, I met Dougie and Dawson at Sports Minded Unlimited yesterday with my oldest who is 3. When I've asked him before, he has told me his favorite Devil is Dougie. I imagine because it's a fun name.
Dawson was as you'd expect, a human golden retriever. Cool kid, told my son he liked his shoes. Then we go to Dougie, and my shy son tells him his name when Dougie asks him. I ask him who he tells me is his favorite Devil, he says Dougie which got a smile out of him. He then proceeds to personalize my son's first ever signed puck completed with a smiley face under the signature. He then gave my son's hair a tussle as he walked away.
All this to simply say that while I understand the finances and roster management behind it all, Dougie is a gem of a dude and I'll be sad when we do move on. It's really a shame we lost so much of last year and even his first year to injuries.
Dawson was as you'd expect, a human golden retriever. Cool kid, told my son he liked his shoes. Then we go to Dougie, and my shy son tells him his name when Dougie asks him. I ask him who he tells me is his favorite Devil, he says Dougie which got a smile out of him. He then proceeds to personalize my son's first ever signed puck completed with a smiley face under the signature. He then gave my son's hair a tussle as he walked away.
All this to simply say that while I understand the finances and roster management behind it all, Dougie is a gem of a dude and I'll be sad when we do move on. It's really a shame we lost so much of last year and even his first year to injuries.