Dwayne Roloson

... like one of the rare ones who, yeah, who started like 45, 50 games and like was good.

I think maybe like Dwayne Roloson way back in the day.

Like, and, and-

Hobey Bohlen was on the list.

Mm-hmm.

Whether it was Kenny Lowe or Sparky or myself or Peter Miller, uh, Dwayne, same with the, uh, Elks.

And, and it's kind of similar to, there's a lot of similarities to, um, you know, to winning a championship in pro sports to, in the volunteer work that, that I do.

I mean, you have a common goal, right? Yep.

And they said, "Barry, respectfully," and these guys were, like, 20 years younger than me, "Respectfully, nobody gives a shit about Messier and Gretzky anymore."

[laughs]

"We want Dwayne Roloson and, and Jason Smith and Fernando Pisani." And, you know, it really, it really, um, woke me up to the fact that, you know, things have progressed.

Sure.

J'arrive au camp d'entraînement, j'ai un camp d'entraînement incroyable.

OK, meilleur qu'Hasek, meilleur que Dwayne Roloson, mais écoute, Hasek, c'est la légende là.

Je pensais pas dire c'est moi le numéro un non plus, mais là, je me souviens, l'aréna de pratique à Buffalo, c'était à Amherst, euh, New York, le Northtown Center.

Dans le temps, on appelait ça le Pepsi Center, la petite salle des arbitres.

So yeah, there's a lot of luck going on out there.

Hell, Marc-André Bergeron doesn't drive that guy into, into Dwayne Roloson, and the Oilers have another Stanley Cup, right? Bad luck.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah.

So yeah, there's a lot of luck going on out there.

Hell, Marc-André Bergeron doesn't drive that guy into, into Dwayne Roloson, and the Oilers have another Stanley Cup, right? Bad luck.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah.

I could see a world where he's still effective and playing into his 40s and loving it.

Like, that's the crazy part, you know? And, and people say, "Well, well, Brent Burns is still playing." You know? A- and Dwayne Roloson I think played at 40, 41, and Rolie wasn't...

You know, I love Rolie, but he's more of a goalie body than everybody else.

Yeah.

In 2011, there was a handful of pretty low-impact moves, we'll call them.

There's a handful of prospects who would not amount to much, and a 2011 third- and fourth-round pick that they sent out for Simon Gagné, Dwayne Roloson, and Eric Brewer.

And, uh, the value in this is, you know, you lose the third- or the fourth-round pick, and you lose some prospects that don't really pertain to much.

So really, you're not giving an awful lot up, but what you are doing is you're helping Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman develop into the stars that they would become, to get real playoff experience.