gamebreakers
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LOL Cory, we're not shooting the messenger, just trying to figure out what is going on in Tampa :dizzy:
Dan Boyle to San Jose
- Thread starter Big Tall
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LOL Cory, we're not shooting the messenger, just trying to figure out what is going on in Tampa :dizzy:
will-411
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I've got to disagree Andy - it's well within their contractual rights to strong arm Boyle into accepting a deal. If he was naive enough to take a home team discount, then that's his fault. Sentiment and good will has no place in todays NHL as the current group of owners and players are showing. Everything is about the best and most money for me, and if you don't play by that rule, you get taken advantage of.
I don't like it either, but that's what the NHL is about these days.
Cory
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Sharks1917
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Ship McLaren over to us in Ottawa. We'll give ya Chris Neil in return
I would do that in a Heart beat....Throw in Fisher & I'll give u Goc(Kidding on this 1)
I would do that in a Heart beat....Throw in Fisher & I'll give u Goc(Kidding on this 1)
gamebreakers
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Too bad we're not the GMs. This would have been the quickest trade ever LOL
DredJAw
Upstanding Member,
Tampa really handled this badly:
“I understand at the end of the day that it’s a business, this is a business. I understand that more than anybody. But there is a way to conduct business, and the way that my situation was handled was absolutely not the way to do it. I, for a long time now, have been under the impression that I was part of this team going forward, wanting input from me on other players, and never in a million years did I think that I was one of the guys that needed to go. Just a few days ago [media were told] that the rumors were a joke, Dan Boyle is going to play 25 minutes, he’s not being traded, he’s not going anywhere. They made it clear that we are not going to go after an offensive-defenseman [in free agency] because we have the best one in the league. Now, going back to business-is-business, when I find out from an absolutely ton of different sources that my [butt] has been on the trading block since I signed the extension, that to me, is not the way you do business. If [they] wanted to get rid of me, let me know. There is a way to do that, it’s been done in the past, just say that “Danny, it’s just not going to work’’ just let me know. And that’s just not the way it’s done. And that really pisses me off.’’
“It got to the point where once it probably a few days ago, when I was threatened, that they just didn’t care and that my [butt] is going to end up on waivers and end up in Atlanta. That’s just not the way you do business. I don’t know if I have too much class or what, because I don’t want to say exactly what was said, but when it gets personal like it did, the line was crossed. When my work ethic is questioned, my off-season work ethic and the way I get ready for games and what I do is questioned, and it gets personal, and I’m threatened, that is absolutely the way not to do business. And I feel sad because I can’t say one thing bad, even with all the ups and downs and battles I had with [former coach John Tortorella], at the end of the day there was respect. In this case I was absolutely blindsided by this whole situation. I know what the response is, that things happen quickly, it’s a business, but that’s not the case when Im told one thing and I find out months later that the complete opposite went on behind my back.’’
- Dan Boyle
He's very upset and I don't blame him. They basically threatened him into waiving his NTC.
“I understand at the end of the day that it’s a business, this is a business. I understand that more than anybody. But there is a way to conduct business, and the way that my situation was handled was absolutely not the way to do it. I, for a long time now, have been under the impression that I was part of this team going forward, wanting input from me on other players, and never in a million years did I think that I was one of the guys that needed to go. Just a few days ago [media were told] that the rumors were a joke, Dan Boyle is going to play 25 minutes, he’s not being traded, he’s not going anywhere. They made it clear that we are not going to go after an offensive-defenseman [in free agency] because we have the best one in the league. Now, going back to business-is-business, when I find out from an absolutely ton of different sources that my [butt] has been on the trading block since I signed the extension, that to me, is not the way you do business. If [they] wanted to get rid of me, let me know. There is a way to do that, it’s been done in the past, just say that “Danny, it’s just not going to work’’ just let me know. And that’s just not the way it’s done. And that really pisses me off.’’
“It got to the point where once it probably a few days ago, when I was threatened, that they just didn’t care and that my [butt] is going to end up on waivers and end up in Atlanta. That’s just not the way you do business. I don’t know if I have too much class or what, because I don’t want to say exactly what was said, but when it gets personal like it did, the line was crossed. When my work ethic is questioned, my off-season work ethic and the way I get ready for games and what I do is questioned, and it gets personal, and I’m threatened, that is absolutely the way not to do business. And I feel sad because I can’t say one thing bad, even with all the ups and downs and battles I had with [former coach John Tortorella], at the end of the day there was respect. In this case I was absolutely blindsided by this whole situation. I know what the response is, that things happen quickly, it’s a business, but that’s not the case when Im told one thing and I find out months later that the complete opposite went on behind my back.’’
- Dan Boyle
He's very upset and I don't blame him. They basically threatened him into waiving his NTC.
tealfan
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Like someone pointed out in another thread - players talk. They tell each other the best organizations to play for and the worst. Watch out, Tampa.
