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Originally Posted by jayswin
No, you're overthinking it as it was a fluid situation where things changed based on life circumstances and likely a lot of family discussion, combined with what was available and being offered by teams around free agency. Those aren't holes, they're a husband and wife making a major life decision on a clock with an agent and NHL teams involved with offers.
- Wife doesn't want to be too close to his partying friends, wants to start their own little life together, liked her time in Calgary alone with Johnny, probably made lots of friends here.
- Johnny's leaning towards getting back to all his friends and family in the Philly area, but open to staying in Calgary, but assumes him and his wife will have a pick of where to go among 3-5 eastern markets.
- Market is soft, offers aren't flying in at $10mil+ AAV as anticipated.
- They get an offer from Jersey for a little more, but as a family they decide on Columbus to be in their own little space together but still close enough to travel "home" for Johnny during breaks.
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If true, a truly massive blow for the single middle-aged misogynists that we’re attempting to paint Gaudreau as a weak, #####-whipped submissive. Guess the boys will need a new way to make themselves feel better.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I have yet to see anyone suggest that Gaudreau in now owed loyalty. You have every right to be boo him over what he has said in the media, I'm just surprised why anyone would care about the vanilla comments he has made.
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Yeah, this. I don’t know that I’d boo Gaudreau. I might, anyone could, but I would for the same reasons I would boo Tkachuk (both guys turned their back on the franchise that drafted them after becoming star players).
The hoops people go through to justify how one was better, the other wasn’t, one got nothing the other got something etc etc is bizarre. Both guys deserve booing for the same reasons. If you make it all about the return, then why not boo any player that leaves in FA or gets traded for a bad return? lol. We should be cheering Adam Fox For helping us secure Lindholm and Hanifin!