Yeah. How dare somebody try to use the leverage they have to try and work in a city they choose.
How childish.
Are you bloody serious?
Guess what. If my job want to a city I didn't want, I'd work for a new company.
If I had my heart set on working in a certain city and raising my family in a certain city, I'd do whatever I could to do make it happen.
Guess what? That's your perogative, and that's fine.
To each his own, but if my job paid me as much as these guys get paid, I wouldn't really care where I played.
There are definitely cities in the NHL I would prefer not to play in, and some I would love to play in. But for the amount these guys make...I'd get over it. You can't necessarily have everything you want in life.
I guess I'm a person who likes to roll with the punches and treat each situation as it comes up. I don't believe there is anything predetermined for me, and that I make my own path. I don't have dreams. I don't have my heart set on anything. I stopped dreaming about my future my first year of college, where all my previous dreams were shattered, stomped on and set afire.
As Linda Hamilton said in Terminator II "There is no fate except what we make for ourselves." You can believe it, or not believe it. But that is one of my core beliefs.
I'd be so thankful that I made it to the NHL in the first place that I wouldn't really care as much where I played. I believe there are big positives to playing in each and every NHL market, you just have to find them and embrace them.
Also, I'm the type of person who would play until I'm early 30's, then retire very early, and then get married and have 1 or 2 children after my playing career is over.
I don't want to move my family around every time I get traded.
I don't want to spend weeks at a time around co-workers, flying from random city to random city to get the ever loving **** beaten out of me for 20 minutes a game, and to have no one to come home to and share my thoughts/experiences with during that time.
I don't want to be away from them for that long...I can't be the type of father/husband I want to be from a distance. I love kids and am very good with them. I couldn't stand being away from a wfie and family like that. Not my idea of utopia.
Maybe if I didn't become conditioned to avoid dreams, I'd think differently. But I don't. You can think whatever you want, there's no right answer.