Colorado Avalanche President & General Manager Pierre Lacroix answers questions from the media about his contract extension.
Colorado Avalanche President & General Manager Pierre Lacroix answers questions from the media about his contract extension . Lacroix was already a two-time Stanley Cup champion as general manager of the Colorado Avalanche , but he also had a well-earned reputation for swinging huge trades. This was in 2002, as the Avs were nearing the end of the Patrick Roy era, and he was looking for a way to get his championship core to make one more run at a championship.
“Pierre would phone and said, ‘Hey, would you ever consider trading this player?’” Button, who was the Calgary Flames’ GM from 2000 to ’03 said. “He said, ‘Look, we’re looking for that type of defenseman.’ I said, ‘Pierre, I’ll be straightforward with you. I’m not looking to trade Derek Morris. If I’m going to trade a defenseman like that, I’m going to need a really good player back.’ We were looking to bolster our center position, so I said Chris Drury’s name. “Pierre goes, ‘Oh, Craig, oh no. … I can’t trade Chris Drury.’ I said, ‘OK, I understand.’ Then the dance went on for six months. And I loved i
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