Have you lost respect for the Tkachuk bros?

[Jihadi Flames Fan]

Both Matthew and Brady were drafted and developed by Canadian teams (Matthew - CGY, Brady - OTT). Both were signed to lucrative contracts by their individual teams. And both forced their way out of their respective teams. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

Great players - one of the better sets of brothers to play in the NHL - but I have lost all respect for the Tkachuk family.

 

[CraigBillington]

I never had any.

 

[Elvs]

I think players should stay with their pee-wee teams.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

It couldn’t possibly matter less that they were drafted by Canadian teams.

They’re not obligated to stay with the teams that drafted them forever. I’d argue (especially Matthew) did right by them in letting them well in advance so they could get value back for them.

 

[Shocker]

Lost? Respect?

 

[koyvoo]

Not at all. In fact, I’d push for them to run for public office.

 

[rumrokh]

These teams are owned by billionaires and will trade your ass the instant it benefits them. The idea of loyalty to that is comically beyond fantasy.

It's a game and you only live one life. Spend it where you want to.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

This will indeed be the year of Keith. Between the brothers getting together and the HHoF induction 'Big Walt' will be the main story-line bar non. It could go either way at this point but I'm expecting a full 'Marlon Brando' type transformation.

No retired boomer has ever gotten ridiculously fat while living it up in Florida, right?

 

[Ace]

Can’t lose something you never had.

 

[Summer Rose]

I think players should stay with their pee-wee teams.

Only if it was the same program as their squirt (atom if you’re Canadian) team.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

...leaving Canada didn't make me lose any respect for either of them...them just being themselves does the trick naturally...

 

[nbwingsfan]

Both Matthew and Brady were drafted and developed by Canadian teams (Matthew - CGY, Brady - OTT). Both were signed to lucrative contracts by their individual teams. And both forced their way out of their respective teams. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

Great players - one of the better sets of brothers to play in the NHL - but I have lost all respect for the Tkachuk family.

Never had any to begin with.

Especially Matthew, at least Brady will stick up for his antics despite having one of the most punch able looking faces of all time

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

No, they are great for the league. They embrace the villain role.

Brady saying he was committed to Ottawa then being gone a month later I don't love but at the end of the day if he wasn't staying (which is his right) it's better for Ottawa to move him now and get a haul rather than waiting a year & getting less.

Tkachuk also did Calgary a solid letting them know pro-actively aswell, they just didn't maximize the value.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

No, they are great for the league. They embrace the villain role.

Brady saying he was committed to Ottawa then being gone a month later I don't love but at the end of the day if he wasn't staying (which is his right) it's better for Ottawa to move him now and get a haul rather than waiting a year & getting less.

Tkachuk also did Calgary a solid letting them know pro-actively aswell, they just didn't maximize the value.

...well, Matthew embraces the Villian role...Sloth isn't bright enough to understand, honestly...

 

[Killer Orca]

I think both are selfish twats, but let's be real, we'd love to have them on our teams.

 

[Chet Manley]

Not a fan for other reasons, but on this issue it depends whether they're traded after telling management they aren't signing UFA years or if they forced it by being entitled little bitches. Is there an answer to which happened? Seems pretty obvious on Matthew based on timing, but less so with Brady.

The system is set up to force players to work for one employer until UFA. These guys should get to decide were they want to live once the servitude is over. Teams have years to convince players to make their org/city home.

 

[Sky04]

lmao who cares if they left, means those teams didn't do much for them to stay. Did you hate Gaudreau for leaving too? No one wants to play with on terribly managed teams.

 

[FiveTacos]

Would you be happier if they led their teams on about being open to extending, only to leave for nothing later?

Nothing wrong with a "pre-UFA" being open about their intentions, and letting the team decide what to do about that. The team does, after all, have the option of milking every RFA year out of the player that they can, before they walk as a UFA.

Unless those players were gonna half-ass it for several years on the way out the door, I don't see why there's a problem. And I have no reason to believe they would have done that.

 

[Beville]

I think the reason most Sens fans don’t respect BT is because he’s just not a very good human.

But I don’t like either of them for their on ice antics; BT had the maturity of my 2 year old, with his constant temper tantrums on ice. It was just embarrassing.

 

[Boreal01]

No, they are great for the league. They embrace the villain role.

Brady saying he was committed to Ottawa then being gone a month later I don't love but at the end of the day if he wasn't staying (which is his right) it's better for Ottawa to move him now and get a haul rather than waiting a year & getting less.

Tkachuk also did Calgary a solid letting them know pro-actively aswell, they just didn't maximize the value.

Are they really even villains, who actively dislikes Matthew outside of Oilers and Lightning fans

And Brady did nothing but lose his entire career until the Olympics, maybe he incurred more hate from his history of questionable/dirty plays

If I were to characterize anyone on the Panthers as a “villain” it would be Marchand and even then he’s more of a hammy villain who sometimes even leans into it

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

As a Flames fan, ehh not really.

Matthew gave management heads up he wasn't going to re-sign when his contract was up in a year, so they had plenty of time to figure something out. If anything, we should have been mad at Treliving for not locking him up when they had the chance. He gave us some pretty fun years and he capped it off by keeping the Oilers from winning the cup twice. If the Fanatics quality wasn't so shitty, I'd have bought a Matthew Panthers jersey already.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I never had any.

This. Great players, but both come across as the type of shitty individuals who'd probably be professional internet flamebaiting trolls if the hockey thing didn't work out for them.

 

[Summer Rose]

As a Flames fan, ehh not really.

Matthew gave management heads up he wasn't going to re-sign when his contract was up in a year, so they had plenty of time to figure something out. If anything, we should have been mad at Treliving for not locking him up when they had the chance. He gave us some pretty fun years and he capped it off by keeping the Oilers from winning the cup twice. If the Fanatics quality wasn't so shitty, I'd have bought a Matthew Panthers jersey already.

That’s reasonable. It seems like the rumor is that Matthew was willing to extend long term and was upset when Brad Treliving only offered him a bridge contract. But that’s just something I’ve heard rumors of, so I’m not familiar enough with the situation to know how credible that is or not.

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

That’s reasonable. It seems like the rumor is that Matthew was willing to extend long term and was upset when Brad Treliving only offered him a bridge contract. But that’s just something I’ve heard rumors of, so I’m not familiar enough with the situation to know how credible that is or not.

Yeah, that's the rumour we've all heard too. The fact that he gave his Flames fans a shutout after winning the first cup and he was partying up here the week or two following the win, says to me that was a business decision and not a slight against the city or its fans.

 

[habinthepeg]

Calgary and Ottawa are pretty trash franchises in recent times, so I don't see why it is controversial to want out of them.