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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think it is fairly clear what he is saying is I will retire if you trade me.
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Which is really nice of him to do. Handcuffs the team that resurected his NHL career and paid him boat loads of cash from getting any value from him if they wanted to trade him, and it provides him the benefit of not having to be the villan.
Doing what he's done, rather than actually wait to be traded and they say that he's not up for it and will retire and decide at that time when the options presented to him, allows him to look like a great guy, the quiet vet who's given his all to a team and just wants to stay there. Versus if the Flames traded him and he decided, thanks but no thanks I'd rather not go, when he'd become the villan, the primadona athlete millionair that wasn't willing to honor his contract, accept the realities of NHL life and report to his new team. Now he doesn't have to "Nabokov" and feel the venom, even though he's essentially doing the same thing, just screwing the team on the other side of the equation.