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Originally Posted by New Era
Have you ever considered that maybe the team knows a little more about Fleury than you do? I think that those with a long term involvement with the team likely is aware with the history of Fleury and how divisive he was in the dressing room. He wasn't a great team guy, he wasn't a great leader and he wasn't a great mentor. He definitely wasn't a model citizen. This is probably what the team is considering when they weigh any possible number retirement or player honorarium.
There is your answer right there. For a player to be bestowed the greatest honor possible they must hold the highest qualities in all aspects of their character. They must not only be a great player on the ice, they must be a great individual off the ice and be a great ambassador for the game, the team and be an upstanding person.
Retire Sheldon Kennedy's number?  |
Really so what is argument about Roy with the Av's and Montreal and Lindsay with the Redwings. Legends that had a string of off ice incidents. You can go team by team and find some of their greatest players that were no angels away from the game as you put it
..."they must be a great individual off the ice and be a great ambassador for the game, the team and be an upstanding person".
#14 should by up there period and the small amount of Fans and and some members of the Flames ownership and brass that disagree have a vendetta against Fleury.