Message from Emeka Valentine-Okoli:

Hey Johnny, I see you haven't been sniped yet. I just want to say thank you for giving me probably my best moments in my small ice hockey career. Right now, I'm heading off to Japan to see my cousin. Knowing him, he would love to follow my footsteps, even looking to get into the GB IIHF team. But still, he does say that I have never looked so happy under any other period than under my time in Colorado. He ain't wrong.
Now, I don't know where you will be heading off to. Maybe you'll retire, maybe just take a uber long sabatical, who knows. But what I do want to say is that I wouldn't have gotten where I was without you. That rookie season was a shock and yet you kept faith in me. God knows I wish I could have gotten you that trophy in S50.
If I was to GM Colorado, the teachings you imparted on all of us.............they will continue, no matter what.

Oh and question in mind: You have any plans to start a BBQ chain?

Johnny, many thanks for everything, and enjoy that sunset.

Your very own,
Emeka "EVO" Valentine-Okoli

(Oh yeah, PS here, going like a broken record, I know, but seriously, many thanks. Raptors LR best LR, and you were the head of all of that. Take pride, man, you did a great-ass job.)