Sentinel
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I disagree.MSL was 100% completely in the wrong, and I say that as somebody that thought he should have made the team from the outset.
Nobody is entitled to make an Olympic team. Crosby was left off in 2006. Stamkos was left off in 2010. Neither had a temper tantrum over it even if they were privately disappointed or seething.
A reigning Art Ross winner who was having a good season to that point is as entitled as they come.
Crosby's absence in 2006 was VERY much felt.
MSL’s whole ‘if Im not good enough for Team Canada, I must not be good enough for your NHL team, so trade me’ nonsense was so unbelievably childish.
Are you a robot? It's the most natural reaction in the world.
MSL WAS a grown-up at that point but he was treated like a child. He gave TBL all he had and then some.Yzerman was completely in the right, and frankly, if I had been his GM, Id have said ‘f*** you, you’re under contract, Im not trading you. Grow the f*** up and deal with disappointment like an adult.’
On the subject: you will not find many bigger Yzerman fans than me, but what he did was wrong. MSL should've been on that team from the beginning. If your own GM doesn't trust you, you are totally justified in asking for a trade.
Hell, Babcock brought Danny Cleary to the Olympic training camp. Naturally, he didn't make the Olympic squad but at least he was shown that his coach trusts him.