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TOUGHEN UP.
- Oct 27, 2006
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Give credit where it's due. There was a vocal handful who were very upset at the timing and the details of the extension.
This was in so many ways an avoidable catastrophe. DD had no leverage whatsoever, if he was extended for 2 years at 3.5 we wouldn't be caring so much but at 4 years he's really anchored himself and it's clear that it's affecting him as well.
All that said, his play was brutal last season as well. He fell off just like Gomez did, but at least Gomez was a winner and an NHL player. DD is nothing.
Great intelligence on display there, champ.
edit: This board, like all of sports fandom, has a strong and evident anti-intellectual slant. It's run MathMan away despite him bringing tons of evidence to every argument, now apparently PhDs and other educated folk are going to get their degrees and experienced thrown back at them by a bunch of petulant children. Sad.
not my fault people NEEDING to be reminded of such simplistic concepts, capitaine.