Excited for a fresh start. Obviously seeing the team, how competitive they are, where they are in the standings, I knew it would be a motivated group that I’d be joining.
It kind of goes hand in hand with the way I play. I play with a lot of motivation and a bit of a chip on my shoulder.
I don’t know if I was necessarily told no [by the Oilers]. I know why I was put on waivers, it just became a numbers game. They were trying to get younger internally on the back end. They had two really good younger d-men in Emberson and Regula come up, and I just kind of got pushed to the side. That’s the way the business works.
– Troy Stecher