"Hap Day realized what I'd done, called me over to the boards and asked who'd given me permission to cut the tape off. I told him, �I did. I tried it your way, I can't adjust to it. I have to crouch. You liked me enough to bring me here, why change me?'
"Hap said, �Well, that's not the way we do things around here,' and he walked away. I thought, �Well, that's the end of that.' But a couple days later, I was traded to the Bruins."