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Originally Posted by Rerun
Crosby didn't have a choice. He was drafted by a USA team and it he didn't play there he wouldn't play at all. I suspect Crosby, as most Canadian players, would have been thrilled to have been drafted by a Canadian team and continuing his playing career in Canada. Unlike Ignatieff, he didn't have a choice.
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Sure Crosby had a choice. Drafted players don't need to play in the NHL. He could have gimped his career and played in some serior league in Canada. Nobody would ever realistically expect him to do that... someone accepting international success is fine. Personally, I wouldn't want to vote for someone who didn't try to go as far as they could with their god-given talents. In Ignatieff's field, going to England to work at a top university was in the same ballpark as going to the majors.
Getting selected by a world's leading university to be a researcher is like being drafted into the NHL if you're in the academia field.
BTW, I don't even really like Ignatieff that much. His vocal support of George Bush's invasion of Iraq turned me off of him years ago. I just think it's shortsighted to knock the guy for taking his career to an international level.