I watched the press conference too, and I'm not ashamed to say that I cried. I had to wake up a few minutes before 3 AM here in Manila. It's already 9 AM now, and it's so worth it to not get that much sleep. I'd rather risk not being able to work well today than not see Captain Joe's press conference.

--- In peterforsbergfanplace@yahoogroups.com, haiku21 <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> I just watched Joe Sakic's press conference re his retirement. I have to admit, I had tears in my eyes a couple of times. He is not comfortable speaking like that at all, but he did a pretty good job; it's evident that he put a lot of thought composing his statement and get everything said that he wanted to say.
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> It was head and shoulders better than Elway's retirement speech--in which he wept most of the time and kind of acted like a fool. (I can't say that aloud in this town, but typing it is another thing) He should have typed it out and read it like Joe did.
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> To say that Joe Sakic is a class act is the understatement of the year. He has to be the best clutch player ever. He said that his back injury and then not being able to get back to previous form was the biggest reason for retiring. His oldest son (around 10 maybe?) was really sobbing. Sad!
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> I hate to even type this - but I think Peter Forsberg should have had the sense to know it was over a couple years ago. I guess it takes a special person to admit something like this.
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> Good news for us - the Sakics are going to continue to live in Denver!
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