[MarkGio]

Originally Posted by MattyC

It's not just a pure business transaction. Like it or not, hockey, and sports in general, are emotional in nature. Sure, all the transactions and cap management are business decisions, but at the end of the day you are relying on 25+ people to work together to win as many hockey games as possible, see each other every day, work with each other, basically live with each other, for an entire season of hockey. Emotion abosultely plays a part. If you bring in someone that everyone loves, it can completely change your team, regardless of what their skill set is. If you bring in everyone absolutely hates, you bet your butt that has an impact on the team.

As much as everyone wants them to be robots, theyre not. Swapping people in and out with identical skill sets does not make the results equal. Radulov could come in and get as many points as '15 Hudler, but still be a negative impact on the team comparatively.

If anyone tells me that trying to work with a nightmare collegue doesn't affect their own work performance they are just plain lying.

Not saying Radulov is these things anymore, and if the Flames were to pick him up he would have my support until he proves otherwise, but don't tell me these things shouldn't be emotional. They absolutely are. There's a reason the Flames management targets a certain personality of player.

There hasn't been a formula for establishing perfectly cooperative groups of people since the start of written history, so why claim you have the answer (or claim that Radulov is not capable of accomplishing the answer).