‘Antipin struggled to pick up Phil Housley’s system and becomes another Tim Murray idea that didn’t work. The Russian defenseman had to learn a new culture and a new language and Botterill said, “To be honest, we were really impressed with Victor and things didn’t go maybe as well as he wanted on the ice, but off the ice, he fit in with our locker-room extremely well and he was a player that came out and really struggled with the English language, but did all the lessons and I know he’s still looking for opportunities here in North America.”’