Fedorov ending.

[Snuggs]

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Bygones be Bygones, should the organization retire the jersey? Been a defender or not retiring but when a guy admits the mistake... takes a lot of the salt/heat out of a wound.

In retrospect, he believes that decision was a mistake. He’d do it differently if life were to give him a second chance.

“Sign everything that Detroit offered and continue working calmly,” Fedorov explained to Russian website Sport-Express as to what his choice should have been. “Don’t escalate the situation.”

“I finished it like this: “I need to think about it,” Fedorov said of that contract meeting with the Red Wings. “I named a time frame – two or three weeks. But it all turned into months. I was a young man, not very knowledgeable about life. I also trusted the agents.

“My agents kept saying that they could raise my salary. But nothing changed. At some point, I completely stopped understanding what was happening in my life. Playing hockey was my only outlet. And Detroit simply removed a new contract offer from the table.”

Ultimately, Fedorov believes that there were no winners in the scenario.

“Nobody won — neither me nor the club,” Fedorov said. “There were just a lot of negative emotions, on both sides. And it ended with me leaving for Anaheim in 2003, signing a five-year contract for $40 million. Detroit initially gave (an offer of $10 million) per season.”

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[jkutswings]

I would like to think that time can heal this particular wound. 91 absolutely belongs in the rafters.

 

[Air Budd Dwyer]

The only people who think it shouldn’t be retired are the Illitches, Devellano, and butthurt fans. It’s just sour grapes from ownership who think business is personal.

 

[ricky0034]

i'd like to see it happen and think it will someday but i've accepted at this point that it isn't going to happen as long as Marian is still around bare minimum

maybe longer than that but at least that long