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Statement From GM Stan Bowman

Posted on December 24, 2011 at 03:47 PM.

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Bowman - First of all, I want to take the opportunity to congratulate the entire organization for a tremendous job this year, obviously it's easy to say that after winning the Stanley Cup, but all the work behind the scenes and on the ice was second to none. A special congrats to Mike Haviland, who in his first year as an NHL bench boss lead this team to a title, his work as an assistant for many years finally paid off in a head coaching job and he didn't disappoint. At this point in time we are going to enjoy the Cup for a short period of time then get back to work. This team might look a lot different come next year as we have to figure out who to bring back as almost all of our players are scheduled to be RFA or UFA this off-season. We will move forward keeping the necessary pieces that we believe will keep us in contention, and make the necessary moves that present themselves if we feel it can help us with that task. Some of those moves may not be popular, but I think we can all agree that for the time being we are Champions, and I trust our entire staff moving forward to keep us in a position to say that sentence again in the near future as that remains the goal.

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