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Originally Posted by mcgahee21nfl
Seems like you answered your own question. Teams in all sports do this. Where they draw the line, will never be up to you the fan though. I don't see any reason to officially semi retire numbers. Unofficially works just fine, right?
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I guess that was my point, teams do this for players like Federov, too good of a player to let anyone wear the number again, but not quite at the point of it officially getting retired.
But my point was for guys like McCarty, Draper, Holmstrom (who I believe deserves to be in the HOF but that's something else entirely), Maltby, etc.
They're never going to have the official or unofficial number retirement, I think that those types of guys who are more popular among fans than some of the stars shouldn't have those numbers handed out right after they retire.