How Long Until Number 11 is Retired?

[MainDotC]

I was watching the 1997 BUF/OTT series on Amazon VoD. Alfie first modern-era Sens Calder winner, first playoff goal for modern-era Sens, first OT goal for modern-era Sens, first GWG in the playoffs for modern-era Sens...

Just a shame he didn't get a taste of the cup just once.

 

[HavlatMach9]

That gif is going to give me nightmares.

fo real wtf

 

[tony d]

Yeah, it probably gets retired next year.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

They won't do it opening night for a very simple reason... Marketing.

Opening nights get enough of a hype and a draw that it would be a waste of potential ticket sales to double up. They'll schedule it for a November or December game that they're not expecting to have a huge attendance number for and BAM instant sell out.

I still don't think it'll be this year... maybe not even the year after. I could see them waiting until he's eligible for the HHOF.

Yeah that's a good point. It would be an easy way to draw fans into the building for a random game halfway through the season.

 

[21]

Perhaps somebody already mentioned this but Alfredsson will most probably move back to Ottawa with his family, not this year though.

New interview in Sweden (newspaper "Expressen"):
http://www.expressen.se/gt/sport/alfredsson-da-blev-det-riktigt-kanslosamt/

Tried running it through google translate ;-)
https://translate.google.se/transla...on-da-blev-det-riktigt-kanslosamt/&edit-text=

Sorry but some translations are ****ed up, golf being translated to Mexico (?) and some other fun parts. ;-)

Highlight from interview:
"Looking ahead, believe the heavily qualified former striker, moreover, that it is a move back to Ottawa. Or "home," he says.
- It seems so. All our guys were born there. We and the city has gone through a lot together. In this way, it was a challenge to move to Detroit, but I think it strengthened us as a family.
When you are back in Ottawa - then wait a role in the Senators for you?
- I do not know. It is not certain - but it must be so, then. At the same time I have spent much of my life around hockey - and that is what I can."

 

[playasRus]

Perhaps somebody already mentioned this but Alfredsson will most probably move back to Ottawa with his family, not this year though.

New interview in Sweden (newspaper "Expressen"):
http://www.expressen.se/gt/sport/alfredsson-da-blev-det-riktigt-kanslosamt/

Tried running it through google translate ;-)
https://translate.google.se/transla...on-da-blev-det-riktigt-kanslosamt/&edit-text=

Sorry but some translations are ****ed up, golf being translated to Mexico (?) and some other fun parts. ;-)

Highlight from interview:
"Looking ahead, believe the heavily qualified former striker, moreover, that it is a move back to Ottawa. Or "home," he says.
- It seems so. All our guys were born there. We and the city has gone through a lot together. In this way, it was a challenge to move to Detroit, but I think it strengthened us as a family.
When you are back in Ottawa - then wait a role in the Senators for you?
- I do not know. It is not certain - but it must be so, then. At the same time I have spent much of my life around hockey - and that is what I can."

Real reason we traded Lehner away - to get Alfie his house back.

 

[aragorn]

I think it could be as soon as next yr, if they are winning it could be later in the yr & if they go on a losing skid it could be sooner in the season to take the pressure of the team.

 

[Ttracer*]

Get it over with asap. First game ceremony, video, and jersey raising. Alfi our God is gone but not forgotten

 

[operasen]

Still prefer to keep the number open. Retire the jersey to the rafters for sure; keep the number in play. Not right away, but when the time is good.

More interesting question for me: Is Alfredsson HOF material and when? But that's probably a different thread.