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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It is what it is. If you don't think Chris Butler isn't good enough to play in the NHL I would say you were a poor evaluator of talent. If you notice there are a lot of posters here that do understand what Butler is and what he provides at $1.7 million. It's the over the top talk of how terrible he is that just makes some of you look bad. It's not a pot shot. It's the truth. Before Butler it was Bouwmeester, Stajan etc. It's fair game to criticize all players on the team but when you go overboard it's just silly and makes us look bad.
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I for one am not that anti-Butler. I would prefer having other defenders on the team, as I just don't see any upside. I don't have a problem at all with you liking Butler's game - it was how you worded it that seemed fairly 'trollish' - the "If you don't agree with me, then you are an idiot" kind of post that baits other posters in coming back over the top.
I don't mind Butler on the bottom pairing. He doesn't annoy me like some others. However, there are many players in the history of the organization that polarize fans into the 'love' and 'hate' group. Just because you are one side, does not mean the other side are morons for not liking him. I really didn't have any problem with the idea behind your post - just how it comes off.
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Originally Posted by Anduril
This could be a whoosh moment for me or I'm just missing but I could almost swear that it were the posters on the ANTI Butler side who mentioned how they use a poster's opinion of Butler to determine said poster's hockey knowledge.
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You might be right - I was skimming through this thread trying to get some work done, and I might have missed where that was initially brought up. If true, then whomever wrote that was just as 'trollish' in my opinion. Doesn't matter what side it is from - I feel it is just over the top.
This is a hockey discussion forum where we provide opinions back and forth. Some players like Butler (and even Regehr, Iginla, etc.,) can be polarizing - but to talk down to posters like that I feel is just a bit much, especially when you can make good cases for both sides.