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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
Can't really compare the two for a several reasons. I don't think an NHL player can just opt out of a contract for more money unless he plans on leaving for the KHL/retiring. There's nobody in the league who could get away with something like that, so they wouldn't even try.
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I think he is talking about when Lebron left Cleveland as a UFA so that could easily happen in the NHL.
The closest situation I can think of would be Fleury, but he wasn't close to the best player in the game. But in that case fans could see the Flames weren't giving Fleury a chance to win so him going somewhere else was inevitable.
With Lebron the moron Cavs fans blamed him instead of the incompetent organization that couldn't get one decent player to play with him, let alone a whole team. I would hope that if we had a superduper star and management was so awful that they drove that guy away we would focus our anger at the management but my guess is we as fans would be like most and hate the player.
If said player wanted to come back and it looked like it would help us win a cup my guess is most fans would take said player back with open arms and a vocal minority would piss and moan about it.