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Originally Posted by Locke
Oh man, 'weather' is a euphemism. When a player cites 'weather' as the reason they dont want to play somewhere it really just means they dont want to be there but are being polite enough to not want to blame or publicize as to why.
You think some Russian or Canadian guy is going to turn someplace down because of weather?
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Originally Posted by _Q_
The weather thing is hilarious. Outside of Southern California, there aren't many places in North America with great year round weather. Almost every single city on this continent has several months per year where it is too cold, too hot, too rainy, too cloudy, too humid, etc.
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And yet millions of Canadians vacation and retire in California, Texas, Florida, Carolina, and Nevada. Weather matters to people. And even if it doesn't matter to the players, who are on the road half the season, it probably matters to their families.
Which is another aspect of this people don't like to talk about - I'd guess close to half of NHLers today are married to Americans. Most of those women want to stay close to their families, and they don't want to live in a foreign country. If people think Chris Pronger's wife is the only hockey spouse who has put her foot down about where her husband would play, they're kidding themselves.