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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I never understood why people expect players to have any loyalty to a team when we all know the team would sell a player, any player, for a bag of pucks if it was of the slightest advantage to the team, on top of that every last one of us would take a better job with better prospects if it was offered, hockey is just a business, being a player is just a job, a job with a very short term uncertain earning potential and a high potential for long term health problems, the guys have to earn what they can when they can
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Most of the time when a player stays with one team for their entire career they’re a HOF level talent or someone with good longevity (Like Backs, but it’s possible Backlund could end up somewhere else before his career is up). Most players will play for more than one team in their careers