When longtime NHL defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic held his exit interview with the San Jose Sharks at the end of last season, he was under the impression that he would be back for a 20th year with the team.

Then, Vlasic was informed near the end of June that the Sharks were buying out the final year of his contract, leaving him disillusioned with the organization he spent his entire professional life with after he was drafted by the team in 2005.

“I had a good end-of-season interview (with the team),” said Vlasic, who spoke Thursday at the Sun Life Pro Am at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City, in comments translated from French to English. “They told me that I played well, especially defensively, and that they liked that I was a mentor to the young guys. They told me they wante

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