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explains these for why he doesn't remember where
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he was the first time he heard the
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Canucks rumor. But he does
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remember his reaction to it. JAY
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Like, Kirk and I were friends, I barely
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knew his ex-wife. KAREN
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That being Leslie. As for
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Jayne? JAY Yeah, no, never met Jayne. KAREN Like
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Kirk, Jeff doesn't hear about the
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rumor too often. Certainly not in
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person, and only occasionally online. JAY
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Some of my buddies would, like, joke
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about it and say, oh, apparently on Twitter
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you slept with Kirti's wife,
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is that true? And I'm like, no,
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it hasn't really affected me. KAREN Even
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so, Jeff does have some insight into
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his mysterious trade back in 1995, the
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thing that has held up as the longest-standing bit
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of proof that the rumor is true. It
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turns out it did have something to do
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with locker room dynamics, a power struggle behind
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the scenes. Only it wasn't between
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Jeff and Kirk. JAY Me and Ricky Lee didn't
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get along. KAREN Rick Lee, the coach who took
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over in 1995 after
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the cup run. Jeff got a new boss,
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and they butted heads. JAY I was not his player, and
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then my game suffered. Yeah, so it was time. I didn't
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move on. KAREN
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And if you go back 30 years, that
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story, it's out there too.
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It's online, way back in 1996. JAY
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Rick Lee traded him away because the two didn't
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hit it off. KAREN It's even
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in Eric Dwyer's reporting at the time. JAY
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Jeff Brown's days were numbered for the moment.
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He started taking potshots at his coach. Lee
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and Brown eventually agreed to disagree in private,
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but they never did kiss and make up.
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KAREN I
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just want to state the beyond obvious here.
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Players having tension with their coach.
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Players getting traded. An elite
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athlete being down because he lost the
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Stanley Cup. A team, not make it.
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