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Originally Posted by Locke
This line of thinking is getting tiresome.
The Kings were classy by having the General Manager go and visit Richards in his home, in Canada, and offer to not buy him out (throw him away) if he committed to to a conditioning regimen, which he said he would do.
Richards didnt keep up his end of the deal which kills me to say because hes one of my top 3 favourite players.
But unfortunately this one is all on him. Hes on the painkillers and that sucks, but there exists a paid-for drug/rehab program for him. Hes the one who tried bringing a controlled substance across a border and hes the one who failed to inform his employer.
I understand that we as Flames fans want the Kings to be hindered in order to improve our own standing, but as with the Flames its never given, always earned. We dont need the League to tie the Kings' hands on this one, the Flames will earn their place on their own regardless of what happens to the Kings.
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Maybe they were being classy or maybe they didn't want to pay the millions to buy him out and tried to convince him to get in better shape in hopes he would be more effective. Bottom line is the Kings made the mistake in not using a compliance buyout end of story. What they are doing now is simply trying skirt around their mistake. All they had to do was take a page out of the Rangers book and buy him out and don't look back but they didn't and they have to deal with the repercussions.