Here comes the "Subject Matter Experts of Avs Ex-Players Brigade". I'll never understand it. They do the same with Duchene as well. People don't change and evolve as human beings, who knew.
Hahaha, what a brilliant over simplification of an entire fanbase based on one poster who happens to support Duchene entirely and still misses him as a player. Well done sir or madam.
That's not true. People didn't just start criticizing this guy yesterday, and he is far from the only player on here to be criticized for the same reason.Does nobody here have any critical thoughts or reasoning.
Yes, ROR signed for money and nobody is blaming him for that. What everyone is saying is that he signed with a franchise that has been very bad for a while now, and was historically bad when he signed there, because he values the money over real success.
Did you watch the interview? That hardly qualifies as complaining. He is clearly genuinely dejected by the whole situation.He consciously chose to sign with a losing team to secure himself financially. That is a completely valid life move, you just cannot complain about all the losing afterwards
I do wonder sometimes about this "losing culture" thing, and how much it's really a factor.I love how people act like the Sabres being bad is a culture thing and not a "have drafted like 6 top6/top4 players since the lockout and traded half of them away" thing.
It's an endemic problem IMO but I appreciate your objectivity
O’Reilly’s reason for leaving the Avs: “I’m just as good as Duchene and shouldn’t be making less.”
Duchene’s reason for leaving the Avs: “I’m tired of losing and want to make the playoffs.”
One guy wanted respect, which the previous regime never showed him. Other guy was completely coddled for years with an internal team cap underneath his salary, yet returned the favour by asking for a trade because he thought the team sucked.
I know which one I prefer.
Say what, now?Eichel will learn in time, but it was stupid for them to make him captain so young. He doesn't have a natural leadership mentality the way a guy like Matthews does.
I said I hope he's miserable for the rest of his career, I didn't say anything about the Sabres.So we're going to pretend Colorado was anything more than a middling team during his tenure there? Better than bottom rung (except in '13 and in '17 , after he was gone), but still not truly competitive. This is obviously just another dogpile on Buffalo thread ft. character assassinations and what not, so carry on.
I tend to agree with this, that is if the new management doesn't drop the ball like the old guard didAt least Buffalo isn't a totally screwed organization as a whole - its just the last 5 years. They bounce back in the next two years
a few other teams are in worse shape with better teams
maybe if you like to impose narratives on people and places without any sincere effort at analysis the idea of losing culture is real... but I think most sensible people would think that taking a closer look at any situation is a better approachLosing culture is real