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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Well obviously people do care seeing how many people have bought into the whole he wants to go close to home angle that came directly from Francis and nowhere else. So why would I not bring up where the whole silly thing started?
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Sure, but it’s not like Francis came up with something no one else would have ever thought of or said. ‘Player X wants to go home’ is one of the oldest pages in the book. I doubt people are saying it because Francis has said it, people have minds of their own and truthfully there’s good reason to think Gaudreau might have interest in going home, or closer to home. You would have to be willfully ignorant to not see that. There’s not much point arguing against it because people are going to keep saying it. They are going to say it about Tkachuk. Matt Coronoto’s next.
Part of this probably has to do with Calgary is a relatively isolated western Canadian City that many players never really saw themselves playing in as they grew up. It is and will continue to be a challenge to keep players here. That’s a hard reality for the Flames to have to face but I believe it to be true. I’ve lived in two other major Canadian city’s and rightly or wrongly Calgary, and Alberta, are viewed by many with a certain lens. That’s probably a discussion for another forum.
Of all the guys who want to go home though, how many actually do it? I would bet not many. And if Gaudreau is one of those guys, then I would bet what Eric Francis had to say had absolutely nothing to do with his decision.