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Originally Posted by IrishSpring2013
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I missed most of this completely ridiculous conversation, but hopefully this serves as a reminder to people who think players owe them something and think they have a right, as a fan, to judge a player based on personal situations they know nothing about.
At the end of the day it's just a job (and a very non-essential one at that). If someone, anyone, needs to leave their job to be with their family, that's something we should respect. People are conditioned to be such slaves to their jobs that they seem to forget the important things in their life.
That's not to say Rask won't face some sort of consequence for this. Maybe he's played his last game as a Bruin, that's ok. I'm quite sure he made this decision knowing the potential consequences and prioritized what was right for him and his family. For that he deserves nothing but respect.
Player who sign with a team get demoted, traded, and benched all the time. He doesn't owe the Bruins anything more than they owe him. Being an NHL player is a short career for most, but your family is with you forever.