From: SmartMuffin | #009
In any case, your argument doesn't make any sense. Good players should be allowed to retire but journeyman nobodies should be forced to stay? That's like, anti-logic.
I don't even know how you managed to wring that out of what I said. You asked why Lidstrom's retirement and Thomas's furlough are being treated so differently. I explained that it is because they are completely different players in completely different situations with completely different histories. Thomas isn't even retiring, if he is to be believed. I imagine the reaction to all of this would be quite different if he was calling it quits instead of thinking that he's such hot **** he can just sit out a year whenever he fancies.
I also imagine the reaction would be different if Thomas had played for the Bruins for 20 years and won 4 cups. You can't just strip away every distinguishing characteristic of a player's career and ask why they don't get the same treatment.
You're just trying to make something political out of something that isn't.
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