“They agreed to send us Castile for you. Expect a call from them shortly with flight details. Start packing.” “Thank you.” Those two words had never been so hard to say to a person in all my life. I did appreciate the trade, though, and was excited to finally be leaving Boston after two stagnant years stuck on a third or fourth line that never jived while the first and second lines were filled with players who had been in Boston for years. There were no indications of things changing. I wasn’t bitter about the lines as much as I had been about the style of play. As the years progressed, Boston
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