Teemu Selanne, the NHL rookie record holder for goals (76) and points (132) has signed with the Anaheim Ducks for his final NHL season.
I know, I know. Everybody was wishing that maybe, just maybe, Teemu Selanne would end his career with the same team he started with. I don't think anybody really expected it to happen, but just chalk it up to Winnipeg hockey fans not only wanting their prodigal son to return home for his swan song, but to keep a little of the past team alive.
It wasn't like Jets fans were on pins and needles that maybe the Finnish Flash would succumb to nostalgia as Selanne already said if he came back for one more year, it would be with Anaheim. I'm sure a lot of fans are disappointed, but he only spent three years in Winnipeg. Yes, his first year was one that you will probably never see a rookie duplicate and he was, and still is, loved by all Jets fans young and old, but he did spend 12 out of the past 16 seasons in Anaheim (not including the 2004-05 locked out season.) Most importantly, he won a Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007.
I mean, what would you do? I don't think if even the Jets offered him five or six million for one year would have made him change his mind. He's more honorable than that.
Just wait until the Ducks visit Winnipeg. He's going to get a pretty wild ovation.
And one more thing fellow Jets fans, don't be upset when he rightfully (as much as it pains me to say that) goes into the Hall of Fame as an Anaheim Duck.
