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A real jerk thing
Didn't JR also vociferously deny that he was trying to trade Letang? One wonders if he really did try to trade Malkin too.
Didn't JR also vociferously deny that he was trying to trade Letang? One wonders if he really did try to trade Malkin too.
Wonder if we'll ever find out what the return would have been.
I remember there were rumors back in the Shero era that the Pens and Flyers almost swapped Letang (and possibly something else?) for Simmonds and Voracek. That would have been a weird alternate universe.
If he was harassed into quitting for trying to trade Letang, I doubt he would have been allowed to explore a Malkin trade tbh.
Didn't JR also vociferously deny that he was trying to trade Letang? One wonders if he really did try to trade Malkin too.
Didn't JR also vociferously deny that he was trying to trade Letang? One wonders if he really did try to trade Malkin too.
I don’t have much more info beyond that, didn’t really press. If you read in to things you can guess Morehouse said no on this. I’m guessing as well Morehouse and he had other run ins or he wouldn’t quit just because of this one move. The way he still speaks glowingly of Mario but won’t discuss anything else makes you connect some dots there.
Either way, as I’ve said all along taking his ball and going home in a tizzy huff because he didn’t get his way seven games in to a season is indeed bullshit and unprofessional. But that’s also pretty well JR through his career.
I mean, I don't exactly blame JR for quitting if he did want to make a trade but was not allowed to do so. What GM would want to be a GM knowing they can't make the moves they want?
Now, that's not say I defend the thought of trading Letang. Especially trading Letang for Maf or whatever other nonsense JR would have thought up. I don't defend that idea at all. But if JR wanted to make moves but was not allowed to it makes sense that he would quit over that and I don't honestly blame him.
Yep. In the Yohe article he claimed the big 3 were untouchable. He was adamant. I bought off on it, shame on me, maybe? If MiB's source is right, I now say f*** JR, not because he was trying to move #58, but because of his self-serving, lying hypocrisy after the fact, now looking for work. I vacillate like that.Didn't JR also vociferously deny that he was trying to trade Letang? One wonders if he really did try to trade Malkin too.