John Ferguson Sr. had to fight at the draft table to get Ottawa to select the future hall of famer in 1994, but it turned out really well.
In fact, Alfredsson didn’t find out right away he’d be drafted. In the hours after it wrapped up, Stockholm-based agent Claes Elefalk, who now works with J.P. Barry and Pat Brisson at CAA Hockey, called Alfredsson to let him know he’d been taken by the Senators.
“I’m calling Alfie and I’m saying, ‘This is Claes Elefalk, the hockey agent. I’m in America at the draft and you’ve just been drafted.’ He says, ‘Oh, is the draft this weekend?’ That’s so funny. I told him he’d been drafted by Ottawa and I’d try to bring a jersey back home with me or something.” “ saw he could make plays in hard areas, he had the willingness to go to those areas and a willingness to play a two-way game. He demonstrated it at much higher levels in the years after, but that does require a great deal of projection, confidence, experience, and Alfie demonstrated all the things the Ottawa Senators need to see when they made the selection.”
“ needed to do it and he did. He was never one who was afraid to share his opinion. He had the confidence and the experience. A lot of times you can have people banging the table and you may not have the trust to go with it. It’s a credit to them that they collaborated on the opinion.” “The ’99 All-Stars’ was a team with 13 or 14 hall of famers, so we had a good team,” Barnett said. “When we got home from Europe, I called John Ferguson Sr. and said, ‘We played against this young redhead Alfredsson that you guys drafted in the sixth round, and he might have been the best player on the ice that night.’Article content
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