I think that hockey players are just as imperfect as anyone else, they have a widely varying dedication to their profession as any other job, it's tough to travel so much and be away from family no matter what the compensation, and no matter how many millions anyone offered me I'd never take on a job with the injury risks and surgery at young ages that any professional athlete has to deal with as routine, no matter how easy it is to say "they get paid millions to play a game."

They get paid millions to train relentlessly in the offseason, to rehab from multiple injuries, large and small, and to ply their chosen job where they are criticized endlessly if they have an off day and can never just call in sick when they don't feel all that great, as anyone else can. The games they probably do play for peanuts, it's the other stuff that they don't do for free – and neither would I. 🙂

No one should be upset when/if he does, because it was never going to happen in Detroit. Some puzzle pieces just don't fit – and he was one of them.