CENTER

(the last two seasons)

Friday, September 5th 2003

Nashville gets: Luc Robitaille, $7,000,000
Colorado gets: Adam Oates

Thursday, July 17th 2003

Colorado gets: Mattias Norstrom
Nashville gets: Adam Oates
 

  S   TEAM    GP     G     A   PTS    +-   PIM   PP   SH   GW   GT    HT     S  PCTG   GpG  ApG  PTSpG
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 2003  COL    89    22    67    89    16    24    4    0    2    0    26   188 11.70  0.25  0.75  1.00
 2004  COL    84    20    60    80    17    22    5    0    2    0    16   187 10.70  0.24  0.71  0.95
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             173    42   127   169    33    46    9    0    4    0    42   375 11.20  0.24  0.73  0.98

Adam Oates retired at the age of 42. He lived a good hockey life in the FNHL mainly due to the way Colorado treated him.
Colorado has brought Oates in, shipped him out and brought him back when Oates wanted to win a championship. Adam Oates played
pretty steady throughout his FNHL career as a set-up man but also managed to score 20+ goals in each of his two full seasons. Adam
Oates had such prolific scoring that he ended his career 6th all-time in assists only behind Rob Blake, Alexei Kovalev, Jason Allison, Brian Leetch, and Mario Lemieux. He also finished his FNHL career 16th overall in points. Oates did not end his career because he couldn't do it anymore, especially after he recorded 80 points in 84 games in his last season. Oates reached his major goal in getting a ring and he did not want to leave on the terms of Colorado. Oates wanted to leave the FNHL as a prolific assist man and not the man that played one too many seasons.