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Originally Posted by Table 5
I have no idea, but I do know that the average age of a Canadian man getting married is 31 (and for an American, it's 29.8). So a 30 year old single guy doesn't sound that odd to me. And pretty much all NHLers are rich, so that would be no surprise to anyone either
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You can put forth a country's marriage statistics all you want, but like I said, I seriously don't think there are too many 30+ year old NHL single guys. There is such thing a social stigma and IMO it's safe to assume that the NHL has their own cultural norm that is different from the average Canadian or American. So if there are very few 30+ year old single guys in the NHL they are going to stick out like a sore thumb. It's entirely plausible that a single 30 year old NHL player is viewed differently than a 30 year old NHL player with a wife and kids.
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Originally Posted by Table 5
Let's face it, the guy was a bubble-defenseman his entire career who was very lucky to even play as much as he did. The man who who was supposedly jealous of him played almost 300 more NHL games than he did.
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Isn't that part of Commodore's point? I quote: "The coach (Arniel) was jealous because he played a lot of years, he had a wife and kids and he felt he didn't earn a lot of money so he booted me off the team." Commodore was saying that Arniel was jealous because despite playing a lot of NHL games Arniel felt he didn't earn enough money. Again, this is entirely plausible. We've heard a lot of retired hockey players complain about the money they earned vs the money the players are making now.