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Red Menace · 03-10-2015, 03:20 PM

I know it makes everyone feel better to try and paint Sven as some kind of spoiled entitled brat, but there is absolutely no evidence of this.
The team formed an opinion about him and decided he wasn't in their plans, that's it.
You can try and pretend that his play didn't "earn" him a spot, but the truth is when he played with top players he performed more than satisfactorily for someone of his age. When he played on the 4th line with Bollig he struggled.
He's gone now so it doesn't matter much, but we don't ned to attack his character every single day.

03-10-2015, 03:20 PM	#49
Red Menace Scoring Winger Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal Exp:	I know it makes everyone feel better to try and paint Sven as some kind of spoiled entitled brat, but there is absolutely no evidence of this. The team formed an opinion about him and decided he wasn't in their plans, that's it. You can try and pretend that his play didn't "earn" him a spot, but the truth is when he played with top players he performed more than satisfactorily for someone of his age. When he played on the 4th line with Bollig he struggled. He's gone now so it doesn't matter much, but we don't ned to attack his character every single day.