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Originally Posted by browna
He's accepted individual awards at the NHL awards, should he turned those down and stayed in Toronto training or hang out with teammates instead of making the trip to Vegas or whatever?
The league allowed him to design some of the all star skills.
If you want that star treatment, you take the good with the bad.
Him staying in the tunnel for another 2 minutes after handshakes, taking a quick picture and leaving, would show responsibility as a professional and as a star, and class and doing the right thing as a person and role model.
It's the easy way out to avoid hard situations.
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I know you know those other things are nothing like the moment of losing game 7 in a stanley cup final. Not even in the same universe of context.
No one will care about him not taking the picture, his role model card will not be revoked. I’m pretty sure his jersey sales will be fine and he’ll get plenty more endorsements and marketing material.
It seems weird that you care so much about McDavids picture with the Conn Smythe.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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