Minor detail there.
I'm not saying that Brown is absolved from his play or that the Kings don't need much more from him for what he's paid, but jesus... It feel like some of you would sell your own mothers to organ trafffickers for $50 bucks if the opportunity presented itself.
I don't get your point. We are being critical of an athlete who is still supposed to be in his prime who has gradually gotten worse since signing his big fat contract. How are we being disloyal when or unfair? A guy who is potting less than 30 ****ing points is being paid $7 ****ing million dollars.
I guess Lakers fans also shouldn't be critical at all when their overpaid athletes fail to perform. Same with the Dodgers. They might have the highest god damn payroll in all of sports (or had, as of last year), but we should refrain from saying anything negative about them because they're our Dodgers, right?
If anyone fails to perform at their job, they are usually transitioned out, demoted, paid less or laid off/fired. Unfortunately, you can't get rid of an underachieving contract that easily.
Pardon me for not being more sympathetic towards a multimillionaire who shows signs of regression through every passing year.
I've noticed this as well. Pretty sad. In the end, all I know is that there are a lot of you that I wouldn't be "friends" with because I'm sure once I outlived my usefulness then I'd be gone. You're users.
You can say a lot of bad things about me but I am loyal to a fault.
And this whole thing, starting with Richards (Yes, I do understand that Dean gave him chance after chance but he clearly had a problem that was caused because he put everything he had on the ice to his physical and mental detriment) to Voynov, to Brown and Greene, it has just left a really bad taste in my mouth - especially listening to a lot you talk like these players aren't human beings and that they didn't bring us TWO Stanley Cups - which a lot of us long time fans NEVER thought we'd see. Sad and weird.
Stop being over dramatic. Are you a pro athlete who is paid millions of dollars as well? That is who we are being critical over. Not our mothers or siblings or friends.
We are here discussing hockey, we are discussing the crappy and declining performance of a player who is grossly overpaid for what he provides on the ice. We aren't attacking Dustin Brown the person. This is the athlete and the on-ice performance that is at discussion and his unwarranted contract.
And it wasn't solely Dustin Brown who brought two Cups to this city. There are some other guys named Kopitar, Quick, Doughty, Carter, Williams, etc. who we are not ripping to shreds who had a hand in doing just that.
Can you honestly say that this team will miss Dustin Brown's on ice contributions if they got rid of him? Can you really say that with a straight face after witnessing his steep decline over the past three consecutive seasons?