The weirdest thing is the team interviewed him before the draft.. to be sure he'd be a good fit. The Jets were satisfied. After the draft he said how excited he was to be a member of the Jets and to play in front of a hockey mad market like Winnipeg. Then there were many interviews with the Winnipeg media. He was gushing about playing with the Jets. Then one day that changed. Nobody is sure why that happened. Going from 'Yeah its great. I can't wait. This is a dream come true.' ... to ... 'I doesn't feel right. I want a trade.'
There has to be a piece of this story that includes Rutger’s behavior in Sweden at last WJ. I can see ‘fan taunting’ as not sitting well with the ‘family first’ culture Jets ownership values.
Adam Fox nods. These guys don’t seem to mind playing on crappy teams (Anaheim/ Columbus) but they do mind being jerked around and being told that going to the AHL is the only road open to them.
So I guess a player has to go through years of a shitty situation that pushes them into the player assistance program before they're allowed to ask for a trade? Players aren't people that have autonomy of their situation until their ceiling and potential plummit and then we get to cheer on their decision to ask for a way out? Idk man. Feels like as fans, there's a fine line on spinning the "these guys are spoiled brats" discourse just because upper management is going to push whatever PR paints them in the best light. This isn't a first for Winnipeg. Not a first for Colombus either. How long does Cheveldayoff get to cry wolf on "it's them, not us."
You know why I like you so much? It’s because you still find things to talk about in the off season. The other guys out there, who I love, talk about not having content so they scale it back. But dude they can expand their horizons to other happenings in the nhl rather than rely solely on red wings news. I’d rather listen to them talk about their favorite foods than most the other crap on RU-vid, plus I mean it’s hockey still. Who doesn’t like hockey?
Leadership is one thing the Pens have plenty of, CG needs to know is role and do it and work on getting better everyday. Once the core is gone if he is still around we can talk leadership, until then do your job
I can't believe Cutter Gauthier didn't want to play for dirtbag John Tortorlla and the Flyers who suck every single season with zero Cups since '75. I can't believe his buddy Rutger McGroarty didn't want to play in frozen Winnipeg. I'm shocked. Winnipeg fans are super goofy in the comments.
Rutger will have 1 maybe 2 years playing with syd, malkin and letangand then he will be a young forward on a rebuilding team and be in the same boat as hawks and sharks. He will spend his best years on a bad team.
Absolutely 100% truth. We need to hear his side. There's more, too, this. This line about not wanting to play in Canada is false. His dad's Canadian, so that makes him half Canadian, and lots of family are here. I'm sure we will hear from him or the agent, and the truth will come out
I'm sure Sid will be teaching him to have some humility, if he still decides to act like a baby after a team made of mostly veterans and champions in their core, there's nothing to be done with the guy. But Kirby Dach was seen as like that in Chicago, as a spoiled baby and Marty St-Louis as Dach said, made him love playing the game again. I guess McGroarty wanted to be in a team with a winning story, with a lot of championship flags up in the rafters with retired numbers etc. vs. a team that never did better than Conference Final, in its two iterations. Still don't approve of that mentality as Winnipeg is a team built very well that can aspire to success...but I'm not him. I would have settled with being the best AHL player for one of its franchises that has a long history, but I didn't have dreams as lofty when I was 18 years old, getting out of middle class to upper middle class was the only thing that could be done with some work and a college degree in something that is actually in demand was my one way up, I think if I wasn't Canadian and I could have played baseball all year I could have ended up a pro baseball player, but I kept it realistic as the dawn of my baseball career approached when I was in playoffs when 20 years old in provincial Junior BB (as high as it got here). Sometimes some of those guys don't realize they're going to get paid millions to what amounts to just being a kid's game in the end, that does rub me the wrong way a bit.
Winnipeg makes the most of its cancerous players. Look at how they fleeced kings for dubois, they did the same for the new stuck up kid. Jets won that trade big time
