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Originally Posted by heep223
I believe last summer he was quoted a few times saying that he feels he doesn't have to work out much in the off season, and then coaching staff (or mgmt) affirmed that he's "special" and were OK with this because of his status (whatever that means). This was all on the record.
I don't know if that qualifies as a distraction, but it certainly doesn't seem like the type of attitude that would fit under Hartley and Gio's leadership.
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Why is that? He's not a leader, it's been well documented the guy just wants to play hockey and do nothing but the least he has to with the media.
I'd argue in TOR he did not have stable leadership to operate under and was thrown to the media wolves far too many times.
Here he'd be well guarded against that as the leaders in the room take majority of the media time anyways. And the Flames media right now have a hard time throwing anyone under the bus like those vultures in T.O.