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Originally Posted by GioforPM
For me, once a player leaves the team, even one of my favourites, I find it pretty hard to muster a lot of feelings for them, especially say, after a season. Including Iginla, Reg, or any of the cup winning team, etc.
To some degree some posters want players to do well to say I told you so as much as they want it because they like the guy. I’m certain that would have been the case with Sven, for example, if it had happened.
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Well, looking at former Flames around the league, I'm certainly happy guys like Byron, Kulak, and Brodie seem to be having success.
Am I emotionally invested in them? Not really, they're a blur. But it's still nice to catch the occasional Habs game and see Byron go ball to the walls. I guess the most accurate feeling I'd refer to it as is "nostalgia".
If Bennett were to get traded and have a William Karlsson type breakout elsewhere, I'd be
1) Frustrated that the Flames couldn't find a way to get that breakout here
2) Happy for the player, who always gave 100%
3) Happy for the Flames scouts who drafted him
4) and then... a whole lot of indifference
As for being a fan of the team or the player?
I'm a fan of both.
I don't watch pro sports to watch robots play the game. I don't watch major league pro spots to watch minor league level players like Rinaldo or such play the game either.
I watch pro sports to watch great athletes do things that the amateur athletes cannot do. Sam Bennett's career has had moments of excitement, and he's completed plays and shifts and games that have been top tier, plain and simple. So yeah, I do root for the players who play for my favourite team. That's what sports is about.
Now, on other teams, would I rather watch elite guys like Point, Crosby, Makar, MacKinnon etc?
Yeah, because they're at the pinnacle of the sport.