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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I've never understood why anyone expects any athlete to make any decisions except for themselves completely, they work for teams that don't give an ever loving damn about them in sports that would happily have them brain damaged it it wasnt for the fact that they got found out.
Hockey, Football, Soccer are all the same, players are only as good as their current stats and even then that doesnt matter if they can be moved to make a trade happen or tank for a pick.
Any and all teams will move them no matter that they have a family, a life, kids in school etc, the day I hear a coach say they arent going to trade some journeyman 3rd line forward with no NMC on their contract because he's been with the team for several years and is a good employee who's daughter is just starting school so it wouldnt be fair to use them to dump salary, then I will expect players to have loyalty
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But isn't that also part of the argument that Hamonic was being selfish?
He chose not to play when he would still be paid, and chose to play when he had to in order to be paid.
He was selfish. He let his teammates, ownership, and the fans down.
However - He is entirely within his rights as an employee and human to be selfish.
I have no issue with him opting out- It was within his player negotiated right, but I look at is as a guy who conveniently decided not to play for a team that wasn't resigning him and he didn't care about anymore while still getting paid.
And to me that's selfish and I will not respect his decision
Respect =/= Not Allowed to do it