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Around the League 2019-2025 Edition

Preston said:
Maybe but it's dumb. I think it's more likely they don't think the added pressure is worth the potential benefits of winning in a Toronto or Montreal.
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Its a combination of all of that.

These guys have families, no one wants their kid being bullied cause Dad had a rough game 5 in round 1. They want privacy for themselves and their loved ones, and in the US there is almost no market save for the Rangers maybe, to where you cant live a fairly private life as an athlete.
 
Preston said:
Maybe but it's dumb. I think it's more likely they don't think the added pressure is worth the potential benefits of winning in a Toronto or Montreal.
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Thing is those cup parades in many non traditional markets is sad. Not sure why you wouldn't want to be well known and in a huge market.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
Its a combination of all of that.

These guys have families, no one wants their kid being bullied cause Dad had a rough game 5 in round 1. They want privacy for themselves and their loved ones, and in the US there is almost no market save for the Rangers maybe, to where you cant live a fairly private life as an athlete.
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Yes that's a different thing tho and easy to understand. But of course winning in Carolina is not the same as winning in Toronto or Montreal.
 
JackBurton said:
Why do we never hear this in other sports?
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Ken Griffey Jr said he'd rather retire than sign with NYY, and i think there are a handful of athletes that feel that way.

I think the biggest issues here are

The ratio of top salary in the league and how rabid the fan base is is a huge gap

A good chunk of teams can and will pay max value to a player. Not the case in the MLB

The NFL has non guaranteed deals, so you simply take the most guaranteed up front money regardless if its a place you want to be

Hockey players are fucking boring by design and closer to a regular human than the other sports
 
I totally get the appeal of not being hounded by fans and media everywhere you go. Some guys love playing hockey, not necessarily being a celebrity.
 
The problem for the Leafs is that management let them become a joke. No one avoids playing here when the Leafs are winning.

But also no one wants to join a team that loses game 7 to Florida, Boston, Tampa every year and has to eat a decade of fans frustration.

Shanny should be banned from Toronto for blowing this .
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
Ken Griffey Jr said he'd rather retire than sign with NYY, and i think there are a handful of athletes that feel that way.
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Had nothing to do with them being a big market, or too much pressure.



Ken Griffey Jr. famously refused to play for the New York Yankees due to a negative experience during his childhood. He felt discriminated against when, as a child visiting his father in the Yankees' dugout, he was told he had to leave by a security guard, while another player's son was allowed to stay. This incident, combined with his father's experience with the team, instilled a strong aversion to the Yankees that persisted throughout his career
 
None of this makes any sense still.

If Marner wanted out two years ago, he could've forced his way out. His excuse about not waiving at the deadline was that he'd just had a baby, but he didn't have that excuse last offseason or any time in the season prior. At those times, when he could've left, sticking around if he hated being here doesn't compute. Something happened, some distinct event, and not some bullshit like suddenly he couldn't take the pressure, or the money wasn't enough. Has to be something with his teammates. I doubt it's Matthews, but maybe him and Willy hate each other and once Willy signed his long deal, maybe against Marner having lobbied against it, he said he was done.

The stop crying bro thing was pretty embarrassing. Following it up with blowing his assignment on the gwg. Maybe these things led to a major rift in the room that made the crybaby decide to take off.
 
Habspatrol said:
I totally get the appeal of not being hounded by fans and media everywhere you go. Some guys love playing hockey, not necessarily being a celebrity.
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I mean, maybe, kinda.

But it's such a short period of your life that is gone so fucking quickly. Not getting everything that it has to offer you strikes me as pretty small minded and bitch like. I can understand not wanting to spend your entire career in Toronto, Montreal, etc. But to grow up playing hockey, make the league and not at least get a taste of being a rockstar for a few years is a fucking waste.
 
Volcanologist said:
I'm sure we would have found a way to reframe it if he had signed here, but Ehlers is soft injury prone and doesn't score in the playoffs.

in fact, taking a closer look at his playoff numbers, he scored 5 of his 9 career playoff goals in 8 games this spring. So before that it was 4 goals in 37 games.

he'd have helped us in the regular season no doubt, but a soft perimeter winger probably isn't what we want to replace Marner with.
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In the playoffs he is just a Danish Marner.
 
Some guys just don't want to be legends.

Did you know that Reggie Jackson only played 5 years for the Yankees? All I knew of Reggie Jackson was as a Yankee. Mr October is as a Yankee.

Who doesn't want to play for the Dodgers now?

LA Lakers get all the stars. People want to play for the Knicks, Celtics and Heat.

Bama, UGA, Michigan, Ohio St, Notre Dame all get top 10 recruitment cycles.

That is how you build your legend.

Leafs are the same in Hockey.
 
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