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“When we researched him, that’s what kept coming up and coming up and coming up,” said Burke. “This kid never viewed the injury as a setback. He viewed it as a challenge. And he met that challenge. The workouts he did were legendary to rehab this. While he was hurting, he was meeting his team on the road. Just little things like that showed character.”
“In an ideal world, obviously we would have liked to have taken a centre,” said head scout Dave Morrison. “But at that particular spot, he’s just such a talent. There was no way we were going to let him go.”
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