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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I get some of the anger towards Kylington. The Flames supported him for a long time while respecting his privacy and letting him deal with matter on his own terms and timeline. As far as I can tell, he was not actually under the supervision of the NHL or related programs during that time, and didn't have a timeline, so it was a personal leave and the Flames continued to pay his full salary on that freshly signed deal.
Then he spurned the Flames future contract offer preferring instead to go through back channels before free agency to work with a tempering team. Not cool. He could have just been honest and said he wanted to move on, then entertain offers on July 1st.
This should be thought of the same way as if he had suffered a serious physical injury that caused him to miss the same length of time.
We have to start thinking about mental health in the same way we think of physical health.
I sympathize with him for his struggles, but he also showed poor character after the Flames did everything for him. Both things can be true, a person can have mental health problems that deserve sympathy, and they can be a jerk at the same time.
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My view is you support someone going through that because that's what you should do.
Not in exchange for some future loyalty or anything else.
It's not a value exchange.
We should think of this is the same way as if he had suffered a serious physical injury that caused him to miss the same time.