Bye Bye Forsberg
The hardest thing about following a professional sports team fanatically, as I have the Colorado Avalanche, is that in the era of free agency, you always lose the players you love.
For me, the hardest blow still is when Chris Drury was traded to the Calgary Flames for players the Avalanche don't even have anymore (he now plays for the Buffalo Sabres). I have a signed Chris Drury puck. I have video clips downloaded on my computer of some of the amazing plays that Drury made while an Avalanche player. And then he was traded.
And now Forsberg. How could you not find room under the new salary cap to keep the best player in the NHL (in my opinion, as well as many other hockey fans)?
It's going to be tough this year. I'm excited that hockey is back, but the Avalanche team I love will have different faces on it. And not Forsberg's. Or Adam Foote's, for that matter.
At least Forsberg didn't go to Vancouver. Or Detroit.
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