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Originally Posted by GioforPM
This.
We are always hearing about how some player wants a move to a city to be close to home. It almost always doesn't happen. More often they don't want a trade because they've made a home (see Shane Doan).
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I think it might be a Canadian inferiority complex thing. We don't apply the same logic to Canadian players. "Oh for sure Jonathan Toews wants to play for the Jets". "Sidney Crosby wants out of Pittsburgh because he's Canadian".
But it happens a lot with American players. It's almost like we think "why would Johnny want to stay with the Flames when he could live in New Jersey?" and "Tkachuk would rather be in St. Louis/Phoenix" like these places are paradise on earth, and Calgary sucks.
If hockey players were so interested in playing close to home, a Canadian team would win the Stanley Cup every year.