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Originally Posted by nobles_point
He didn't screw them over.
He exercised his negotiated rights as a professional.
If anything they screwed him over. He gave them a sweetheart second contract in a cap era to build a team around and they repeatedly farted it away.
That contract is a perfect example of why McDavid wasn't about to give the Clown College running the Oilers anything close to a Tavaras bargain for them to squander.
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By excersising those rights in the way he did he also simultaneously stabbed every single Islanders fan in the back and set the whole franchise back in the process. Team management might not have a reason to boo him, which they didn't do, instead they put together a nice tribute for him, so that's all well and good. I agree whole heartedly with the fans on this one though, and hope they get lots and lots of chances of booing and jeering him for as long as they see fit while their team knocks his team to the curb both during regular season and the playoffs. The Islanders being so good and destroying the Leafs repeatedly is such sweet poetic justice.