Yeah pretty cheap by Johnson himself and the Pens (who should’ve just kept their mouth shut).
With all the troubles and scrutiny he’s had off the ice, the Jackets have had to do a lot behind the scenes for the player over the years...to comment about being happy to join a winning culture, is low. Although I am sure the Pens will now take that burden too, grass isn’t always greener and the player should be greatful for CLB for the support they’ve provided him off the ice so he can maintain a career on the ice.
It’s somewhat akin to Fleury ripping the Flames owners on the way out to Colorado, and in the months and years ahead as his career skidded downhill playing in NYC and Chicago. If the owners didn’t do an extraordinary amount of protecting and insulating the player off ice when he was here for a decade+ with all his demons, he would have crashed out of the league long before and been in a pretty bad spot for life in general. Without that insulation the Flames gave him, in NYC he took a pretty deep fall pretty quick.
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