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Originally Posted by FAN
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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Geezus, come on. Commodore didn't end up playing in Russia because he's single. He's there because he can't play in the NHL. He's on his seventh team (and third league) in four years. Did they all drum him out because he's not married? No, they didn't.
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Originally Posted by FAN
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.
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Every player on the Bluejackets made more money than Scott Arniel ever did as a player, yet he managed to put an entire roster on the ice every night. Where was the jealousy for everyone else on the team?
Commodore questioning Mike Babcock's hockey smarts is just plain stupid. There's no other way around that.
The guy is no good anymore. That's it. Hell, he never really was and now he's 34. It's not jealousy, it's not his single status, it's not the best coach in the world childishly trying to get back at him.