He loves the game more than most and he just loves scoring goals and he’ll do whatever it takes to score goals, so it was really fun watching him develop. What you see on the ice everyday is how he is in the dressing room everyday I don’t know how he continues to function at such a high frequency. “…I really enjoyed playing with Ovi, that guy is a ball of energy everywhere he goes. So I think the longer he’s there, the more players learn to trust him and believe he has their best interest, even though it doesn’t always look like it, so that’s probably one of the ways he stands out…I think the biggest thing for him is how personable he is and how you can trust him.”ĭuring his playing career, Fehr played with both Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, two of the game’s best players. I think he’s a people person, he’s a guy you can trust, he’ll shoot you straight. We had an older group of guys that had kind of been…knocking on the door for a number of years, he really wanted to get the most out of us.
For me personally, I loved playing for him…I remember how hard we worked the first day of training camp, I think he set the tone pretty quick for us. Obviously he ended up winning a Stanley Cup there…and I thought he did a great job. He expects a lot and he demands it every day, which I think you have to do, especially in the NHL nowadays with players performing at the top level and you can’t let guys slip and that’s kind of what he brought to Washington. “I’m a big fan of Barry Trotz, he’s a great coach. The seasoned bench boss was brought to Washington to stabilize and change a culture in the locker room that had been missing previously. In June, Fehr talked with Winnipeg Sports Talk podcast host Andrew Paterson on a myriad of topics, including his playing career, playing for Barry Trotz, and his new role as Director of Player Development with his hometown Winkler Flyers.īarry Trotz was the Capitals’ Head Coach from 2014-2018, leading the team to their first Stanley Cup championship in the summer of 2018 before resigning after a contract dispute. In 2003, the Washington Capitals drafted forward Eric Fehr with their first-round pick, a selection that would in turn see the Winkler, Manitoba native play a total of 419 games in a Washington sweater across two stints with the club.Īfter leaving the Caps in free agency in the summer of 2015, Fehr spent time with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Minnesota Wild, capturing a Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 2016.
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