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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
If it's a legitimate injury, why should he? The NHL contract he signed gave him this right. By all accounts this is a real injury that has prevented him from practicing most of the season last year and training this off-season. Both Detroit and I'm sure Zetterberg would rather he play than not, even with his injury last year he was still on of their best players.
Walk away from $5,350,000.00 he's legally entitled to because some random fans don't think his injury is legitimate? Lol.
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That's fine but if he wants to get paid but if he wants to get paid he should play if he is healthy enough to play and how can his coach come out and say because he wasn't able to prepare for the season he's going to miss the entire season? That's where things become foggy as that's not how things work. Players report and the team monitors their progress during the recovery progress and when team doctors deem he's fit to play he is inserted into the lineup. How many players have had offseason surgery and not been able to skate until the season starts only to return? How can the Wings come to the conclusion that he can't play all season because he didn't do his offseason workout? It would be much easier to buy if they said he would start the season on IR and his return is uncertain. They are closing the book like it's case closed because he couldn't prepare in the offseason but there is no prerequisite that any player has to prepare in the offseason to be able to play.
Does anyone really think he's going to come back for the 2020 season for a $1 million salary? Really?