I still don't get why people are mad at him. He did nothing wrong and didn't lead anyone on into thinking he was coming back. He was very noncommittal, he didn't rule anything out and wasn't forced to.
If only there was some way to have know when his contract was going to end and to somehow traded him for assets before he had complete control of the situation. It probably would have seemed rude to give him an ultimatum to sign or be traded, I mean what kind of franchise would do something as rude as taking control of the situation and essentially forcing a trade to better their team...wait, didn't the team that just made it to the finals and win the up the 2 previous years do that to one of their team leaders? I'm sure that upset a lot of their fans and other players??
Teams have to cut ties with players all the time and as kuch as it suck, they should have with Johnny before his NTC kicked in. Much like they should with Tkachuk if he doesn't want to sign long term.
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