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TheoFleury · 10-15-2021, 03:09 PM

Canada's teams have reputations for meddling owners, insane fans and overbearing media. These franchises have also hired some of the worst GMs available. Poorly run franchises are not attractive to players. Even if that other stuff went away, it's still canada. High taxes, ####ty weather and no chance for any anonymity at all. A lot of guys don't like that stuff. To simplify it as 'fast tracking' as the reason is pretty disingenuous. There's a whole bunch of reasons. 94-04 was pretty tough for Canadian teams for obvious reasons. To just go back to Montreal as a starting point makes no sense

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10-15-2021, 03:09 PM	#129
TheoFleury Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Apr 2004 Exp:	Canada's teams have reputations for meddling owners, insane fans and overbearing media. These franchises have also hired some of the worst GMs available. Poorly run franchises are not attractive to players. Even if that other stuff went away, it's still canada. High taxes, ####ty weather and no chance for any anonymity at all. A lot of guys don't like that stuff. To simplify it as 'fast tracking' as the reason is pretty disingenuous. There's a whole bunch of reasons. 94-04 was pretty tough for Canadian teams for obvious reasons. To just go back to Montreal as a starting point makes no sense Sent from my SM-G988W using Tapatalk Last edited by TheoFleury; 10-15-2021 at 03:13 PM.