Yep.
Let me put it this way....
People on this board and others are responsible for your livelihood. We are the ones who buy the products and services the company you own/work for provides. We are the reason you get a paycheque.
To say Miller owes us something because we are paying to see the product/company he is a part of and paid by is the same as anyone demanding the same from, well, anybody. It doesn't make sense. I'm not entitled to know your business just because I support your livelihood and I am not entitled to know MIller's business for the exact same reason.
Forget the personal aspect, he is part of a product being sold. Would you like to be sold tickets to see a band and then the lead singer didn't show up? Oh wait that happened in Vancouver and almost ended up in a riot.
Miller is part of a product, a piece of the "whole unit" being sold, a thing. Lots of posters have no issues with trade proposals or critiquing a player on the team. Once he signed on to play for 8 million dollars a year and the team sell ticket to see him he became depersonalized. To see a performance.
How is whining about a player or suggesting he be traded any different than expecting to know if the lead singer is showing up? And if not why not?
Is "Trade him" or "he played like crud" any different than "why isn't he here, I paid to see him"
If Miller owes nobody anything then there can never be any complaints or questions about anything to do with any part of the team, the whole product.
Some parts can have to be repaired but then the part needing repair is explained as to why.
Lets go to an extreme,
The Canucks released a statement that 4 players need to take time off for a reset, Hughes, Garland, Landinen and DeBrusk for personal reasons and will be gone for an extended period of time.
That is okay? No explanation should be expected or explained? But ticket prices stay the same? Or half the Abbottsford team is iced as the Vancouver team? Abby tickets are much cheaper aren't they?
Miller is a feature player, a selling point an important asset. They aren't slaves and they are human with all the frailties but he is also a product being sold.
Now about the game,
I think this is a must win game, they haven't secured a playoff spot and if they lose there could be a chance that a couple of teams jump over them.
The schedule gets much harder going forward
IMO a must win
