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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You sir are a salesman's wet dream. I don't believe the earth is flat, don't believe vaccinations cause autism, nor to I believe that the US government orchestrated the 911 attacks. However there's plenty of circumstantial evidence here that you don't need a tinfoil hat to be skeptical. Anyone familiar with insurance or workers compensation knows that doctors can only advise when it comes to pain management so that's actually the easy part for the Hawks. As I said before this is a league that gave the Devils a first round pick back after the Kovalchuk ruling because they really don't want to police themselves to the rules they have set up if they can get around it. Lets not forget this is not just fans as several teams complained about this and they know far more than we do how the inner workings are in a case like this. We joked around after the Mike Richards incident and low and behold it didn't take long for another very convenient set of circumstances for another prominent team to get out of a contract that they exploited to win Stanley Cups. Anyway I have some stuff I would like to sell you.......
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Do you also believe we would have lost everything in the O'Reilly fiasco?
The league turning a blind eye probably plays some part of this, but it seems most likely that Hossa was willing to suffer through an annoying skin condition for ~$5M and a decent chance at another cup, but not willing to suffer through it for $1M and less of a chance.
None of us can know how much annoying/suffering is involved. If we could earn $1M to do nothing while doing a favour to an organization that has treated us well for many years, it would be a hard situation to pass up...
I'm not saying it doesn't smell a bit fishy, but all parties are simply making the natural choice in their own best interest