Thomas was very good to start the year but his numbers post-WH are a very noticeable dropoff - went from a sub-2 to a 2.6 or so. save% from 94% to 91%. Maybe it wasn't the cup, but the WH thing just got to him. We could potentially chalk March up to Rask's injury, but prior to that, not really. It's not like I didn't bring this up back when it was very obviously happening, either.
The difference between someone who is sitting out a year and someone who is retiring is significant. I can laugh about what a fraud that political stance of his is, but I love Tim Thomas the Boston Bruin. If he chooses to end that, that sucks. The relationship thing is, I hope you would realize, just strange and senseless - you don't just spend a year on recovering relationships only to ditch them again. If he stays off the ice and pursues his family and faith, then my stance will definitely change.
I can't really speak for other fans, and yeah that seems hypocritical given that I'm essentially speaking for Tim Thomas. I'm just assuming he isn't deluded into thinking he'll be fixing up decades of relationship woes by taking a single year off.
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to measure the meaning can make you delay
it's time you stopped thinking and wasting the day