In the real world when a boss doesn't really like or respect an employee, the employee usually gets the hint and moves on to somewhere where he is appreciated. Whether by transferring, getting a promotion, bidding or requesting a different job or going to work for a different company. PK has chosen a different path and that's his choice and we will see how it plays out or if things really change.
Whether MB is right or wrong, I don't think Hab's management will ever have anything more then a tolerance or at most an indifference towards PK. Changing of their mindset just doesn't seem like it's in the cards. Look at a lot of posters here, you can presents the facts, the truth over and over again, all to no avail.
Pro sports are completely different than the "real" world as far as employer/employee relationships go.
Draft alone makes that abundantly clear.
PK genuinely wants to be in montreal, and, I suspect, is smart enough to know that he's likely to be here far longer than his "bosses" (coach & GM), if he wants to AND can continue to play at his level.
What other business has that kind of reality?
In a way, Molson stepping in to get the long term deal, at record cap hit, proves how well PK played his own hand.
That he was willing to "play along" with managements poor evaluation, reflects his seemingly sincere desire to play here (which fits everything he's ever said... And fits his personality... He gets that winning here and being a star here is as close to being a Kobe/jeter/messi as u can get in hockey, and right or wrong, he seems to have the drive to be the big star at the "center of the universe" just like them).
It rubs many the wrong way, including our GM, and lucky for us that ownership (for whatever reason) decided it better to bet on him than on MB 's evaluation.