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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
I really wonder what kind of people think that wives don't have a say in where their family lives/moves.
It's strange to me that some people believe that a hockey player can just tell his wife where they will live, and she has no say.
That's not reality. Nor should it be.
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Sure, but it also has to be within reason. There are a plethora of reasons why someone's 'desire' simply cannot be met within current circumstances.
For instance, if my wife's 'demands' would cost our family $15M I would probably be vehement in my denial of those demands.
Perhaps those desires can be met more thoroughly later after the current 'Once in a Lifetime' opportunity is realized?
Moreover however, I am going to comprehensively reiterate my stance that I do not in any capacity believe that Gaudreau to Columbus had absolutely anything to do with his wife.
I do not know much about Gaudreau's wife, but from what I have read she is nothing if not a very intelligent individual. It would make no sense for her to sabotage her husband and her family's single greatest and most important career and financial opportunity and to suggest otherwise is non-sensical and, yes, misogynist.
I sincerely doubt his wife put her foot down and said "COLUMBUS!!!"
To me that is patently absurd. Absolutely she should have a say, but again, within reason and I have never been given any reason to believe that she is an unreasonable person.
As I've said before, I think Johnny himself, as someone disinterested or naïve or nervous, as well as his Agent for not taking control of the negotiations and some borderline incompetence among other things, are the ones who really dropped the ball here.
Either way though, Gaudreau and to a point, his Agent, are public figures and fully fair game for criticism. His wife however is not.
It is wholly unjust to put a target on his wife's back. At the end of the day the buck stops with Johnny.