Where to start with this mess?
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Originally Posted by fotze2
It's weird we want our athletes to have this nonsense loyalty and give up rights we all have and use daily.
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What rights do athletes give up? I will answer that for you…None. They may give up a few conveniences but they are afforded many privileges to make up for it.
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Originally Posted by fotze2
When a co-worker quits to go somewhere else we usually say "take me with you" not "you're a fataing piece of crap".
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Co-worker? Really? Kylington is not a co-worker and as a fan I have more invested in the team and the city so please “ask Oliver to take you with him” to Colorado. And no-one called him a piece of crap.
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Originally Posted by fotze2
But he was drafted by the flames. The honor!!! Draft is not a benefit to players, its a sentence. It reduces your options from 32 to 1 for many years. Imagine being drafted by CNRL or some crapco or the Calgary Flames. Sorry to break it to you, the Flames are a pretty crappy team to be drafted by.
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Being drafted at the NHL entry draft is an honor, watch the reactions of the players and their families and tell me they believe it is a sentence. They have no obligation to attend the draft; they can outright denounce the process and say they will not report to a team if drafted. There has been precedents: Eric Lindros indicated he would not sign with Quebec, Adam Fox and Tim Erixon both had New York as their destination of choice (maybe Kevin Hayes as well), Cutter Gauthier ghosted the Flyers, Jarret Stoll and Matthew Lombardi reentered the Draft, Justin Schultz became a free agent by playing out 4 years of college. As far as the Flames are concerned Hunter Brzustewicz signed pretty quick when given the opportunity after failing to come to an agreement with the Canucks.
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Originally Posted by fotze2
We should be proud the Flames handled this the way they did but the player used his god given right to look elsewhere. He's probably pretty sick of being forced into decisions he had no choice over.
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What was he forced into? Oh the hyperbole! But you are right for the first time in this mess, the Flames handed the situation admirably and it is Oliver’s right to look elsewhere (god given…lol… or otherwise).
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Originally Posted by fotze2
If I was in the top percentiles of my profession and had the choice of 31 other places, I don't think I'd choose Calgary. 4 months a year the climate can murder you. Why? But we have lots of Vietnamese restaurants. We are just a little better than Edmonton and Winnipeg.
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The thing is Oliver may be in the top percentile in his profession in the world but in the NHL he has proven to be an unreliable replacement level player. Let me say that again… ”in the NHL he has proven to be an unreliable replacement level player”. He almost played himself out of an NHL job with how he went about free agency. And the weather…that is your reason for not choosing Calgary? That has not stopped many Flames Alumni, including U.S. born players to make Calgary their home even after being traded to warmer climates during their careers. I love the climate; backpacking, hiking, fishing canoeing and kayaking in the summer. In the winter I can ski at world renown resorts, snowshoe, hike, ice fish and back-country ski. It is just so simple and pedestrian to dictate where you live on climate, so many other factors I would use to base my own happiness.
Do not get me wrong, I like what Kylington brought on the ice and thought there was more to him but there was a distraction there as well, a distraction the team does not need. I have moved on and you should too.