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Antero Niittymaki had just signed a one-year contract for the same amount as had Robert Esche - $1 million.
It was summer, and Esche was on the phone with a longtime confidant, Sean Burke. Esche was fretting about how it would be perceived if he and Niittymaki, both Flyers goalies, were making the same amount. Would it mean they would both be starters? Or would it mean that neither was good enough to be No. 1?
"I know if I go there it will be an awful situation - people will run me out of town," he told Burke, a fellow goalie.
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It was summer, and Esche was on the phone with a longtime confidant, Sean Burke. Esche was fretting about how it would be perceived if he and Niittymaki, both Flyers goalies, were making the same amount. Would it mean they would both be starters? Or would it mean that neither was good enough to be No. 1?
"I know if I go there it will be an awful situation - people will run me out of town," he told Burke, a fellow goalie.
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