Should Gaborik be paid IF the NHL resumes?

[Bicycle Repairman]

That's a different point than nationality, though.

He's not technically a scab, but he's still stealing an innocent party's job. It's unseemly at best for an employee in a labor dispute to go to another company and take the job of someone at that company. It makes the NHLPA's cries of union solidarity a joke, to put it kindly.

Gaborik is from Slovakia, therefore he has every right to play in his homeland. Slovakia and Sweden are both EU countries, so therefore he has the right to play for Farjestads also.

If he's technically not a scab, then don't call him a scab.

Gaborik didn't "steal" a job. He earned it by being a better player than the other fellow. Gaborik didn't cut the other fellow. Their coach did. The coach put the guy on the street.

Besides, how can you display union solidarity with someone who isn't unionized?

 

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Gaborik is from Slovakia, therefore he has every right to play in his homeland. Slovakia and Sweden are both EU countries, so therefore he has the right to play for Farjestads also.

If he's technically not a scab, then don't call him a scab.

Gaborik didn't "steal" a job. He earned it by being a better player than the other fellow. Gaborik didn't cut the other fellow. Their coach did. The coach put the guy on the street.

Besides, how can you display union solidarity with someone who isn't unionized?

100% agreed