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Originally Posted by Poe969
I didn't miss that part at all. So he didn't like the coach's style and the team put him on the block...It's a completely different situation this time. The team didn't hang Yzerman out to dry as a player and make him out to be a brat. As Resolute pointed out, you can't treat every player the same and expect everyone to be like him.
If things weren't working out and the team put him on the block, it'd be different, by treating the kid the way they are they're looking like the bad guys IMO.
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Umm, no. Yzerman didn't make Drouin out to be a brat. Drouin did that all by himself by going public with the trade demand. And I think you are one of very,
very few who is siding with the player on this one. (For clarification, I think Yzerman is fumbling badly himself, but he is not the architect of Drouin's public perception.)
Compare this to the Sven Baertschi situation. Sven was just as unhappy, Sven wanted out just as much, and Sven was already known to have some attitude issues. But he kept his problems out of the media. And he went down to the AHL and played until the team was able to accommodate his wish.
So Drouin is coming off looking worse than a player who most of us knew had entitlement issues. That takes some doing.