The last say on Mike Danton

After the revealing Mike Danton interview with Sportsnets Nick Kypreos, Kypreos is getting the last word in this article.

Let’s make two things perfectly clear:

1. No one paid Mike Danton to speak to me.

2. David Frost didn’t put me up to doing this interview, as Steve Jefferson insinuated in a phone conversation we had prior to the interview going to air.

When I sat down with Mike Danton, I had no preconceived notions of what I was going to get out of him. Five and a half years ago, from what I could gather from TV clips or newspaper stories, Danton appeared a young, arrogant kid who kept everything bottled up to himself.

In the early years of his career with the New Jersey Devils he went way beyond your typical cocky top prospect. In a dispute with the Devils GM over a minor-league assignment, Danton was quoted as saying: “I’m not drinking Lou Lamoriello’s Kool-Aid anymore.” Not too many players talk that way about their GMs.

Instead, what I saw during our interview was an articulate, thoughtful guy, who expressed exactly what he wanted to say. Unfortunately, it wasn’t any more or any less than what he was prepared to say.

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