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Former Duck Morrison centering Ovechkin

October 16th, 2009, 7:00 am · 4 Comments · posted by Curtis Zupke, Staff writer

Brendan Morrison will largely be remembered by Ducks fans as an acquisition that never fulfilled his promise. Rangers Capitals Hockey

Signed to a one-year, $2.75 million contract before the 2008-09 season, Morrison had never fully recovered from knee surgery and was later placed on waivers.

He finished the season with Dallas and this summer signed a one-year, $1.5 million deal with Washington to help offset the loss of another former Duck, Sergei Fedorov.

How’s that working out?

Morrison (above, No.9) is centering the Capitals’ top line with Alexander Ovechkin, and he has three goals and four points through six games.

Not a bad turnaround, the Washington Times reports.

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 4 Comments

  • Ducked Up! says:
    October 16, 2009 at 11:41 am

    Bad signing by Burkie. $2.75 million for a whole lot of nothing.

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  • Chaz says:
    October 16, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Ovie is the type of player that elevates the play of everyone around him.

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  • steben says:
    October 16, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Of course he bounced back, he was coming off an injury that had the potential to end his career. So he needed time to get back in form, he played better down the stretch for Dallas than he did early on for us. And centering Ovie will make you play better.

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  • JohnP says:
    October 16, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    Thanks for the Cup Burke but you left a financial mess and a player void when you left. The team is finally cleaning up your mess. Morrison played too cautiously after his ACL surgery and now, after a year, he’s comfortable and playing like he used to. That’s what Burke was shooting for but Morrison didn’t live up to his end of the deal.

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