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Article: Solid start for Begin ; After turbulent season, forward finds his place
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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BRUINS
NOTEBOOK
DALLAS - Steve Begin's time with the Stars was so short last
season that he doubted he remembered how to get to his temporary
Dallas home from American Airlines Center. Begin's 20-game stint
with the Stars, however, was good enough to make the Bruins sign him
to a one-year contract July 1.
"So it was perfect," Begin said with a smile. "Couldn't have come
out better. So it was good."
Begin, once so effective as a hard-nosed wing in Montreal,
inexplicably found himself on the outs with then-coach Guy
Carbonneau last season. On Feb. 26, the Canadiens traded Begin to
Dallas for Doug Janik.
"I was expecting I'd be traded somewhere, but I had no clue where
I was going to go," said ...