Jussi
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Then make the players pay for their own insurance. They all get paid enough. Leading up to the Olympics dock it from their pay.
That might be against CBA rules.
Then make the players pay for their own insurance. They all get paid enough. Leading up to the Olympics dock it from their pay.
As a fan of Team Sweden and a non-fan of Detroit I still understand if they want him to rest.
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According to team doctors, Henrik Zetterberg can barely move, the pain in his back makes it impossible for him to fly home at this point.
Then make the players pay for their own insurance. They all get paid enough. Leading up to the Olympics dock it from their pay.
Then make the players pay for their own insurance. They all get paid enough. Leading up to the Olympics dock it from their pay.
If the IOC wants NHLers so bad then they should pay the insurance. I have a feeling they might not be so thrilled with that idea.
Why the hell should IOC bend the rules for NHL, AGAIN? how about NHL starts doing something for the international hockey?
Here's the huge abyss in reasoning between European (or more like, the rest of the world) and NA fans. "Their investment". That "investment" happens to be a guy with a name. **** their investment who they got for coffee money from the same country that wants him to represent his country once every 4 years. This isn't a circus, this isn't a hedge fund, this isn't cattle, it's a sport.
If they want international star players to play for them, you can't keep the cake and eat it. The rest of the world are used to this, they understand that the national team is the national team and they dont' start crying and start the blame game if their club's star player gets injured playing for their national team. The self righteousness of the NHL and its narrowminded fans who think like this, is what makes it so easy to start boycotting this joke league, once the NHL's decision to boycott the olympics is official.
This is why a league can't dictate the entire sport globally. Then it comes down to this ****. Then you can just let the sport of hockey crawl down in some hole and die. The NHL has the money to get the best players, but its also the biggest communist joke league in the world, that is run by a bunch of corporatist clowns. Apparently, communism is a great ideology when it suits them.
Like we have to speculate a huge reason as to why.
well, when Sweden gets roasted, we now will have all the excuses for their ousting.
Here's the huge abyss in reasoning between European (or more like, the rest of the world) and NA fans. "Their investment". That "investment" happens to be a guy with a name. **** their investment who they got for coffee money from the same country that wants him to represent his country once every 4 years. This isn't a circus, this isn't a hedge fund, this isn't cattle, it's a sport.
If they want international star players to play for them, you can't keep the cake and eat it. The rest of the world are used to this, they understand that the national team is the national team and they dont' start crying and start the blame game if their club's star player gets injured playing for their national team. The self righteousness of the NHL and its narrowminded fans who think like this, is what makes it so easy to start boycotting this joke league, once the NHL's decision to boycott the olympics is official.
This is why a league can't dictate the entire sport globally. Then it comes down to this ****. Then you can just let the sport of hockey crawl down in some hole and die. The NHL has the money to get the best players, but its also the biggest communist joke league in the world, that is run by a bunch of corporatist clowns. Apparently, communism is a great ideology when it suits them.
The first posts in this thread here on the Olympics board were all about the Wings, thus in essence basically saying "who cares about Sweden and the Olympics". If that's not asking for trouble, I don't know what does.All I take issue with is people saying who cares about the Wings. Well as a Wings fan this hurt a ton.
If not for the Wings, somebody else would have paid him the same.Also Zetterberg is going to live pretty for the rest of his life because of the cash they have paid him.
... then go whine on the Wings board. What are you even doing here if the Olympics don't matter to you?if you're a Wings season ticket holder you just lost your best player this season over in a tournament that might not mean a whole lot to you,
If the IOC wants NHLers so bad then they should pay the insurance. I have a feeling they might not be so thrilled with that idea.
The first posts in this thread here on the Olympics board were all about the Wings, thus in essence basically saying "who cares about Sweden and the Olympics". If that's not asking for trouble, I don't know what does.
If not for the Wings, somebody else would have paid him the same.
... then go whine on the Wings board. What are you even doing here if the Olympics don't matter to you?
I never said any of the above. To the contrary I argued it is common for NHL teams to play their players injured.The Wings and Zetterberg gave him time off then ramped him back up to play and he was still playing at an elite level. Maybe not full on 100% but not surgery. You can say it would have happened anyway, hey maybe you're right, but it did happen here. You keep pretending they are the only team doing it or that they wanted to hurt him.
Terrible news, feel sorry for Sweden.
Feel worse for DRW, they are in big trouble I think. With him this hurt and Dats out, the team won't be getting the help they need for the playoff push.
Plus that contract is going to be real ugly, the injuries are piling up worse and worse.
They should trade him while he still has value.
Flying form the east coast to the west coast hurts my back and I don't even have an injury history there. It is the reason why when you type in flying and back pain you get 65,000,000 results on google. Not exactly a secret, also something Bertuzzi, Helm and Zetterberg have all talked about in the past in terms of those west coast trips being a real pain.
I think they are probably going to have him have the corrective surgery while he is on the IOC's dime.
Flying form the east coast to the west coast hurts my back and I don't even have an injury history there. It is the reason why when you type in flying and back pain you get 65,000,000 results on google. Not exactly a secret, also something Bertuzzi, Helm and Zetterberg have all talked about in the past in terms of those west coast trips being a real pain.
Pretty sure he would have flown business class and could lie down flat....
Here's the huge abyss in reasoning between European (or more like, the rest of the world) and NA fans. "Their investment". That "investment" happens to be a guy with a name. **** their investment who they got for coffee money from the same country that wants him to represent his country once every 4 years. This isn't a circus, this isn't a hedge fund, this isn't cattle, it's a sport.
If they want international star players to play for them, you can't keep the cake and eat it. The rest of the world are used to this, they understand that the national team is the national team and they dont' start crying and start the blame game if their club's star player gets injured playing for their national team. The self righteousness of the NHL and its narrowminded fans who think like this, is what makes it so easy to start boycotting this joke league, once the NHL's decision to boycott the olympics is official.
Do you know why your international talent comes to the NHL? It's because the NHL can offer them far more money than they could every hope to earn in their respective domestic league