Mant*
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That's kind of a tough question...I don't personally believe that he departed on good terms with the fans. His remarks after his first game with the Blues was taken as an insult to the Avs fans (talking about how he liked playing in front of a full building).
And his "taunt" after fighting Sarich (I didn't see it myself) and his talking about Giguere's "Las Vegas comments" (calling him out for being a bad teammate is how I took that) all point to him being someone that we probably wouldn't welcome back.
But when you add on to that his known Work Ethic issues (and we saw those first hand), I think it's even clearer still.
Get the quotes right though, because they had intent to injure.
“Chris and I haven’t seen a crowd like that in a while. To know that you have such great support here and they really love their Blues’ hockey is great to know. It’s refreshing for us.â€
-Shattenkirk
“That was great. That was probably the best crowd I’ve ever been in front of. It’s going to be easy to play here if the fans are like that every night.
-Stewart
They made it clear that they think Blues fans are superior to Avalanche fans. Avalanche fans supported them every ****ing night, and there was absolutely no reason to take a parting shot at us. We didn't trade them, we loved having both of them here. They decided to make it personal with the entire state of Colorado though.
**** the both of them.