Dafoe Ends Holdout

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Dafoe has not played this season and the Bruins were off to one of their worst starts in franchise history before winning their last three games.

"It just happened today because it, I think, inevitably, it was going to happen one day. And today was the day," General manager Harry Sinden said. "At the risk of being repetitive, we finally agreed to agree instead of agreeing to disagree."

Dafoe reportedly ended the dispute without the help of his agent, Ron Salcer, and negotiated the terms of the deal directly with noted hard-line GM Sinden.

"I'd rather not comment on me and my agent at this time," Dafoe said. "I just want to play hockey. I just wanted to get this deal done."

Dafoe had a career season in 1998-99, going 32-23-11 with a 1.99 goals-against average and a .926 save percentage in 68 games.

"This could have kept going on for another couple of months, who knows, and I just felt it had to come to an end sooner or later, and I just wanted it to get done sooner," Dafoe said. "Like Harry said, we both gave in on parts of the deal, we both extended ourselves more than we thought we initially would. Thankfully, it's done."