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Originally Posted by Ped
Tell me you have comprehension issues in a single line. First of all, I was going by the database posted. Secondly, you missed the point completely, so good job. Glad the Oilers hate overrides everything, even common sense.
The point is, many players are ######bags, and you can't say one team is more supportive. This stuff goes back years and years. Multiple teams. Multiple ownerships. Multiple management groups. Multiple coaches. Muliple teammates.
If a team thinks a player can help, they'll go after that player. For the most part, they don't care about anything else. Flames, Oilers, Leafs, Rangers, whoever and whenever. And these are only the ones we know about.
If these players did stuff before or after they played for the Flames, guess what? They were probably terrible people when they played for the Flames, too. Their teammates and coaches were probably aware. Fans will usually support who plays for them and not who plays for the enemy, which is absolutely terrible to boil who is a terrible person down to what team they play for.
It's certainly not something we should be keeping score on.
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I disagree with the premise that we should not keep score on these types of things. Figuring out who does better, who does worse, then supporting better, is the fundamental engine for how we can improve things.
Saying everybody does it so they are all the same, is how to support bad people doing bad things. It provides cover for the behaviour, and removes any incentive to improve.
The world is not perfect, and it is easy to look at big problems and say it is hopeless. But history has shown that we do not need perfect solutions, we only need to keep choosing better, and over time it adds up.
So yes, I absolutely keep score and vote with my wallet for whoever is doing the better.