Adrienne Ruth told herself she wouldn’t cry. She lied.
“If he had come back and not had the same year, or had the same presence, it kind of sours the story,” Ruth, a longtime Avs fan and Nazem Kadri family confidant, told me Thursday after word got out that the Avs’ Stanley Cup hero/provocateur had signed a seven-year contract with the Calgary Flames.
“So in a way, I’m kind of glad the story ends where it ended. Because I think, for him, it was the perfect way to end.”
With a smile. With Lord Stanley in his hands, hoisted to the heavens.