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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Not true. Parise (Wild), Tavares, Spezza (Leafs), Glencross, Bouwmeester (Flames), Chelios (Hawks), Ronning (Canucks, technically a trade to be closer to home) all to mind. I am sure if I put my mind to it, there would be many other examples. That's just players that signed with their hometowns, and not ones who signed somewhere just to be somewhat close.
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When you need to go back and use Chelios and Ronning as examples I think it proves the point that ALMOST no players actually care about moving “closer to home” - because they haven’t been “home” in 10 -15 years usually so it’s no longer home
It does happen, but it is rare. Maybe JG is the rare case . We’ll see in a few weeks