You forgot the word ENTITLED. Self centered ENTITLED prick.
Because he thinks the Wild organization owes him NHL time because he decided to grace them with his presence. As evidenced by him quitting TWICE in less than 20 AHL games because they wouldn’t just gift him NHL time.
He’d be in the bottom 6 of the NHL right now if he had any semblance of fortitude as a player. He had the inside track BEFORE Khusnutdinov or Ohgren were here. He might be better than Khusnutdinov. We will never know because he wouldn’t stick around long enough to figure it out
Guerin didn’t try to strong arm him. Just blatant mischaracterization of the situation. He gave Firstov an opportunity to set himself up to be the first call up to the NHL and he bounced after 1 game in 22-23. He would have gotten a chance too if he stuck around. If you’ll recall, that’s the year we had to trade for Nyquist, Johansson, Sundqvist, and Reaves because our wingers sucked and we had injuries to guys like Kaprizov, Hartman and Foligno.
Personally, I don’t think he did what was best for himself career wise if the goal was to make the NHL and get a bag (as you described with the finite number of years to make money). He did the exact opposite.
