Roomtemperature
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Does demanding a trade in the middle of a career hurt a career in your eyes or is it just a business? Does staying with mostly one team in this age of free agency mean anything or is it just a foot note?
It has to do with identity. Players like Yzerman and Lemieux are so important to their teams' history that it really makes a difference to their legacy. If they had played only half their careers with their draft teams, we would see their careers in a different context. Patrick Roy is probably the biggest example of the difference it makes... imagine if he played with the Habs till retirement and never went to the Avs.