![]() “The team started lower and we started higher – you know how negotiating goes – and basically we stressed that we really wanted that fourth year. “Our goal was to get three or four years,” he said. With roots already put down over three years, Moen wanted something of long term. We have lots of good friends in Montreal, I play with a good group of guys on a great organization and I’m happy to be going back.” “Amy and I decided and I slept pretty good that night, better than I have the last couple of weeks. “We didn’t want to rush into anything,” he said. In fact, Moen said the Canadiens’ proposal was on his plate for a couple of days. “But Montreal made an offer, a great offer, that we couldn’t refuse.” “Free agency only comes up once or twice in your career, and you’d like to see how other teams value you,” he said. But then, Moen and Amy had grown to love Montreal and they wanted to stay. The temptation in recent weeks, in discussion with his agent, Don Meehan, was to explore his worth on the open market come July 1. He was eligible for unrestricted free agency, finishing up the three-year, US$4.5-million contract that had brought him to Montreal as a UFA in July 2009. Moen was at an interesting crossroads heading into the weekend. “It’s my wife’s family reunion this weekend, so tomorrow we’re going to play slo-pitch and do all the fun stuff you do at a reunion.” “We’re going to Amy’s relatives’ for supper, then tomorrow it’s supper back at our place,” he said. There would be no Champagne dinner Friday night to celebrate his contract. Moen is terminally true to his roots, as is most everyone from the Prairies. The fair’s a big deal in Swift Current on Canada Day weekend. We went on a couple of midway rides and saw the wolves, tigers and camels. “Blayke slept most of the day in her stroller and after 2½ hours, my little guy was pretty tuckered out,” Moen said. ![]() It was there that Moen watched the first four-year contract of his professional career emerge from a working fax, nine pages that he mostly read before he signed his name.Īnd then to celebrate this remarkable day, Travis and Amy Moen and their son Carter, 3½, and daughter Blayke, five months, headed out to the annual Swift Current Frontier Days Fair & Rodeo.
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