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Originally Posted by BigRed
The point is, it’s NOT his right to choose who to play for. That’s counter the ethic of a draft-based league for parity and talent-dispersion purposes.
Some players torque the rules to the max to give themselves leverage to force teams to take action. That may not be breaking any ACTUAL rules, but it violates the spirit of a draft-based league. And it’s BS.
I’m personally a fan of letting the kid sit. I’d like some kind of regulation that requires players to play out AT LEAST their entry level deals with the team that drafts them or they can’t become UFAs etc (that NCAA rule cripples teams in ways that are completely insane). That way players can demand a trade and the team can move them based on fair value (see: Fox [emoji43]).
To sum up: Screw Cutter. And Fox, while we’re at it.
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Fox is worse than Gauthier though. Fox made it publicly clear he wouldn't play anywhere other than NY.
Gauthier didn't choose Anaheim. He just said he wouldn't play for the Flyers. He could have been traded to anywhere.