The idea that it’s revenge for previous negotiations is preposterous and downright stupid. Why wouldn’t he have requested a trade then in the last 6 years? Why would he have re-signed at all?
People honestly think he’s some crazy ass petty loser who was willing to suffer at an organization he hated for years just to leave as a UFA? Lol.
Same goes for the idea he hates someone in the org. As if he’d just sit around and hate life for years on end and then leave now, instead of asking for a trade if he hated it so much.
The most likely answer is the simplest. He gets to play in the east, he gets out of an intense hockey market and he still gets paid enough to be rich beyond his wildest dreams.
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