02-28-2019, 10:16 PM
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#41
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA/Scottsdale, AZ
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The Isles drafted Tavares, he didn't pick them.
He have them 9 years. They should be thankful he stuck around that long.
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02-28-2019, 10:42 PM
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#42
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleK
The Isles drafted Tavares, he didn't pick them.
He have them 9 years. They should be thankful he stuck around that long.
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That's all good and well, no problem with a guy leaving like that. Just don't tell them you're going to stay right before you leave
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02-28-2019, 11:13 PM
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#43
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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The guy makes insane amount of money, he will be fine. I always love when fans get together like that, it's good clean family fun.
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02-28-2019, 11:24 PM
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#44
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Scoring Winger
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Did Roy get boo'ed when he returned to Montreal, or did everyone blame Tremblay?
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02-28-2019, 11:35 PM
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#45
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by カナダ人です
Did Roy get boo'ed when he returned to Montreal, or did everyone blame Tremblay?
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Roy was a winner. Different story.
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02-28-2019, 11:37 PM
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#46
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by カナダ人です
Did Roy get boo'ed when he returned to Montreal, or did everyone blame Tremblay?
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https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threa...treal.2419041/
Scoreboard the story (Habs management at that time was seen as atrocious as the Oilers today)
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02-28-2019, 11:49 PM
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#47
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 81MC
Love it. Sports needs more of this, maybe it wouldn’t infiltrate real important matters so much.
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Probably the opposite.
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03-01-2019, 12:00 AM
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#48
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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I'd be booing if this happened to the Flames. If you know you're gonna leave, let the team trade you.
Pretty unneccessary to screw them over like he did.
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03-01-2019, 12:09 AM
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#49
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I'd be booing if this happened to the Flames. If you know you're gonna leave, let the team trade you.
Pretty unneccessary to screw them over like he did.
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yup... if Jarome left Calgary and joined the Oilers in his prime, asking calgary not to trade him and that he was going to sign but then pulled the switcheroo, i am sure a lot of fans would be just as angry...
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03-01-2019, 12:13 AM
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#50
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Calgary
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Thought what the Islanders fans did today was glorious with the exception of throwing things at him. You never see that kind of energy and passion in a regular season game so kudos to the Isle faithful.
Tavares has every right to leave but it's the way he left which drove fans insane and left them extremely bitter.
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03-01-2019, 12:33 AM
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#51
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I'd be booing if this happened to the Flames. If you know you're gonna leave, let the team trade you.
Pretty unneccessary to screw them over like he did.
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He didn't screw them over.
He exercised his negotiated rights as a professional.
If anything they screwed him over. He gave them a sweetheart second contract in a cap era to build a team around and they repeatedly farted it away.
That contract is a perfect example of why McDavid wasn't about to give the Clown College running the Oilers anything close to a Tavaras bargain for them to squander.
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03-01-2019, 02:10 AM
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#52
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Calgary
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Wanna hear something really funny i got into a chat on FB with leaf fans about this and i said just wait until Austin Mathews bolts for home after his contract is up ,they all literally said why would you want to play in a s*** hole like that .I said to play for his child hood team and they said only Ontario born players wanna play 4 there childhood team and no one else does.
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03-01-2019, 02:24 AM
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#53
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sweden
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nobles_point
He didn't screw them over.
He exercised his negotiated rights as a professional.
If anything they screwed him over. He gave them a sweetheart second contract in a cap era to build a team around and they repeatedly farted it away.
That contract is a perfect example of why McDavid wasn't about to give the Clown College running the Oilers anything close to a Tavaras bargain for them to squander.
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By excersising those rights in the way he did he also simultaneously stabbed every single Islanders fan in the back and set the whole franchise back in the process. Team management might not have a reason to boo him, which they didn't do, instead they put together a nice tribute for him, so that's all well and good. I agree whole heartedly with the fans on this one though, and hope they get lots and lots of chances of booing and jeering him for as long as they see fit while their team knocks his team to the curb both during regular season and the playoffs. The Islanders being so good and destroying the Leafs repeatedly is such sweet poetic justice.
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03-01-2019, 03:23 AM
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#54
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AC
Isles fans are definitely pissed that Tavares strung the team along then left.
Hard situation for him, but he probably should have just given them the a-ok to trade him and get a great collection of picks/prospects back.
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Well, the 2 teams did reciprocate free agents. Komarov has been doing okay with the Isles.
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03-01-2019, 03:56 AM
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#55
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
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Hahahaha. That's awesome.
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03-01-2019, 04:14 AM
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#56
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Peterborough, ON
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nobles_point
When McDavid leaves Edumpton I can imagine their fans will utilize some of these methods.
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McJudas
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03-01-2019, 06:11 AM
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#57
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
exactly.
anyone really think the NYI wouldn't have traded him prior to him becoming a UFA if they weren't given indications that he'd stay?
NYI got played, but they are partially to blame too...
I love the guys in Calgary, but there is zero chance I'd let Gaudreau/Tkachuk/Monny/Lindholm walk away for nothing on July 1st. They'd be gone the 3 week of June if they aren't signed
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Trading a players rights after the season and just before UFA gets you very little.
Players can talk to multiple teams for about a week prior to UFA, so it’s not like previous times when July 1 was the first time anyone could talk to UFA’s.
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03-01-2019, 06:18 AM
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#58
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by カナダ人です
I mean, his contract was met, concluded, and he was an unrestricted free agent. He was then free to sign with another team or do whatever the F he wanted.
Sometimes I think the fans think the players "owe" them a bit too much. It's a business after all. The players are employees and make money, the owners make even more money, etc.
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Even though this is basically correct, let's be realistic now.
Fans/customers aren't going to sit around and think, "oh well, it's all good. It's a business, after all. I don't care that my favourite team is weaker or that my favourite player left. It's a business, and business comes first!"
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03-01-2019, 06:31 AM
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#59
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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I fully understand the Isles fans, good on them. They aren't booing him for leaving, but for stringing them along ... if he had told them earlier so that they could have traded him at the TDL, it would be different. Just look at Hamonic, they still love him.
great result too, happy for the Isles. And poor Tavares won't be scarred by one night of booing, it's just one out of 82.
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03-01-2019, 06:55 AM
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#60
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: A small painted room
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Tom Tavares
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