FormentonTheFuture
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While I would like the Sens to sign Duclair to a medium term contract (nothing too long or too short) for decent dollars, I wouldn't want them to lock him up for like 5+ years and I don't think race has any bearing on why some people wouldn't want to sign him longterm. He is more of a one dimensional player who has worked hard to develop a PK game as well. He's a speedy shooting winger who doesn't have many tools other than that. That can be a great player for you but it's not a core player or a star player in the long run. He had an unsustainable beginning to the season and was obviously going to drop off. Ideally he'd be like our 6th-7th best forward when we are a good team.Respectfully, that's a facile comment. Hockey is an old boys' club and race certainly plays a role. It plays a role everywhere, not just hockey. I wonder how many coaches or GMs over the years have dismissed Duclair because he didn't quite 'fit in'.
Duclair has played 60-70 games now for Ottawa. EVERYTHING I have seen during that span has shown me that he is a special talent. Especially now after the Akim Aliu story, it really makes you wonder what kind of treatment Duclair was getting in those other situations.
Other similar players have been treated similarly before and it has nothing to do with race. Mike Hoffman comes to mind immediately, a guy who was passed over on waivers multiple times.