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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Family situations are always more complicated. We have no idea what is going on.
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Yes, and they are complicated for all the other players, too, and we never can know for certain everything that's going on in a player's personal life. If your conclusion from that is no one can ever make any judgment about any player in any context, fine I guess, but I suspect most people will disagree, because most of us spend rather a lot of time talking about NHL players and their decision making, on and off the ice. Free agency must be a super boring time for you.
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But go ahead and make a judgement on the basis of a tweet. I guess this is the world we live in.
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I'm making my judgments on the basis of clear statements made in a press conference. The fact that they've been transcribed on Twitter seems irrelevant. They're the information we have and there's no indication that there's some mysterious other thing going on. Sweeney literally said it was nothing specific, that Rask was having a hard time in the bubble and his kids wanted their dad. I have no doubt that's true. But it's true of every other player, and those guys didn't abandon their teammates.
Frankly, based on Rask's game 2 comments, his head just clearly wasn't in it. He didn't care. The Bruins might be better off with someone in net who does. But it still reflects poorly on Rask.