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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
Image what would have happened if he had laughed walked away from the puck flip! Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Tkachuk got lots of guys to fall for the same antics, they reacted badly and got embarrassed, but those guys still went out and helped their teams. Chucky gets a puck-flip and loses it then partially mails it in for the rest of the season...Highest paid player on the team for a reason he gets paid to be a difference maker but this wasn't about the team, the fan's this was about Chucky.
The guy can be a great player but he needs to show up. If he doesn't want to bring it for the good of the team next season, he should be traded.
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I think this (and the comment quoted before this) nails it on the head. He is an agitator, he knows he is disliked and actively seeks that negative attention from opponents. He shouldn't have been surprised by this, and rather than lose his mind ove rit, he should have used it to fuel up on passion for the next game (passion might have been the biggest missing ingredient this season). Then decides he's done trying for pretty much the rest of the season. That's world class pouting there. And no one is wrong in telling him to knock it off. Every single shift and whistle can't be a scrum. If everything is a big deal, then nothing is a big deal.
I am sure all of us have worked or played sports with that one person for whom everything is a personal insult to their honor. It's just one visit to rage town after another, no matter how small or petty or honestly impersonal whatever that thing is. It's exhausting, and I am sure that is probably how it felt to be his teammate at that point. He might have been meaning well to try and get his team emotionally invested, but constant tantrums was just not going to do it. He needed to better choose which hill to die on.
