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How Patrice Bergeron influenced a new wave of defensive forwards

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"What's it like knowing the Selke Trophy competition is finally open now that Patrice Bergeron has retired?"

Asking this question of two-way players such as Aleksander Barkov, Elias Lindholm and Ryan O'Reilly, among others, made them all feel some things. At first? It was laughter because of the nature of the question given Bergeron's chokehold on the Selke, winning six times -- the most of any player in NHL history.

Eventually, the tone of those discussions became more serious with players continuing to talk about the former Boston Bruins center now that he's out of the NHL for the first time in more than 20 years.