Notsince67
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Willy is a stray Schroedinger's cat when alive and a dead one when dead?Schroedinger's winning
I suppose it is how one views the situation.
Willy is a stray Schroedinger's cat when alive and a dead one when dead?Schroedinger's winning
There is a huge difference .. Willy had a steel industry in Stockholm in family so he lived and lives a very entitled life of flying around in family jet since birth .. Matty, and especially Mitch, come from very financially disadvantaged families and they are trying to develop generational wealth themselves .. my point is Willy's life is not changing because he plays pro hockey (all it does is add to his wealth) and $$$ itself very likely is not a big motivator for himI doubt Nylander is any more or less money motivated than the other young core forwards on the team.
I didn't know that about his family - thanks.There is a huge difference .. Willy had a steel industry in Stockholm in family so he lived and lives a very entitled life of flying around in family jet since birth .. Matty, and especially Mitch, come from very financially disadvantaged families and they are trying to develop generational wealth themselves .. my point is Willy's life is not changing because he plays pro hockey (all it does is add to his wealth) and $$$ itself very likely is not a big motivator for him
I hope da best for Willy too .. and it may not be in TO .. who knows he may want to live da LA lifestyle for all i know .. or da NYC lifestyle .. he is our only 5 tool player .. he can wheel in a phone booth, he can beat you in a race, he can shoot with accuracy and power, he can stickhandle and he is super strong on his skates .. my only issue with Willy is his desire to win above all else .. and maybe that is his personality or maybe he never had to hunger for things .. I don't know .. but he has all da choices to make and not many people in world have those choices .. so good for himI didn't know that about his family - thanks.
He didn't say anything about wanting to leave. That was a twist added by the writer, and further twisted by the OP.
Interesting wording here![]()
One-on-one with William Nylander: On his next contract and more
Whether William Nylander stays in Toronto for the long haul will depend a lot on what goes down this season.theathletic.com
Interesting wording he used here..
Willy didn't say he wanted out if we didn't win. He said it would be great to stay with a winning team.I agree with Willie.
Win or gtf out. 55 years....we should all get out.
So Willie, if you fail this year , I will want you out, and Dubas, and Keefe etc
Toronto feels like home now, Nylander says ahead of his eighth season with the Leafs.
“I think this is the longest I’ve ever lived in one place,” he said of the city where he’s lived since he was drafted by the Leafs in 2014. “My dad, he moved (us) around. He maybe played two years, three years at one spot. Then we moved and stuff like that. So this is probably the longest I’ve ever been in one place.
“I just love the city, to be honest. It’s a great city. At the same time as it’s a big city, it’s still a little bit more European. It’s not like you’re walking around New York or whatever. It’s obviously smaller. It’s got a lot of everything.”
Bruh no.There is a huge difference .. Willy had a steel industry in Stockholm in family so he lived and lives a very entitled life of flying around in family jet since birth .. Matty, and especially Mitch, come from very financially disadvantaged families and they are trying to develop generational wealth themselves .. my point is Willy's life is not changing because he plays pro hockey (all it does is add to his wealth) and $$$ itself very likely is not a big motivator for him
Mitch went to a hockey high school starting in grade 9 without paying any fees .. Bonnie was only one working when they live on oak in Clarington .. Paul got paid by team to be our trainer .. and a couple of us sponsored all his hockey fees .. even his ETR 407 bill was paid by team when they moved to markham .. and his condo fee was only a deferred item until he could afford to pay it back .. get your facts straight broBruh no.
Marner and Matthews may not come from old money or anything but they didn't grow up poor at all.
Matthews' dad is a CTO of a tech company and his uncle played in the NFL. These aren't the type of jobs that coupon cutters get.
Marner attended a pretty elite school growing up - tuition costs around $20k a year and he attended there from K-12. His family is well connected to some pretty important people as well - he was living rent free in Toronto in his rookie season because some bigwig real estate guy let him live in one of his spare condos.
The two guys on the team that didn't grow up in the upper 10% are Wayne Simmonds and Mark Giordano. Giordano is from my neck of the woods, around Weston which is not a great neigbourhood in Toronto and Simmonds is from a normal middle class family and has spoken about the struggles his parents had to make to afford hockey equipment.
Most North American born NHL players grow up around wealth.
Willy didn't say he wanted out if we didn't win. He said it would be great to stay with a winning team.
The writer of the article spun it that way, and the OP exacerbated the error.
Sure. But that's not the problem. He didn't say he would only re-sign if we had success (playoff or otherwise), but that's how the reporter and the OP spun it.When a hockey player says winning team, I automatically relate that to PO success. That's how I interpret things.
not sure which thread to bump. this showed up in the search. I see nobody is talking about Nylander
Lol well I appreciate that he apparently wants to win a cup, but I mean he isn't exactly a playoff warrior. This is just from reading the quote in the initial post.![]()
One-on-one with William Nylander: On his next contract and more
Whether William Nylander stays in Toronto for the long haul will depend a lot on what goes down this season.theathletic.com
Interesting wording he used here..
LOL. Yeah, we hate loyalty. Having wishy-washy mercs is clearly what we want. *facepalm*If he said he wants to sign win or lose, people would be complaining about him having a loser mentality and only caring about money.
If Nylander signs 5-8 years at$9-10 million that may be a better deal than Marner at 3-5 years at $12.5 million who may be the one without a seat when the music stops.If you like our D and bottom 6 with Willie making $7m, you're gonna love it with Willie making $9-10M.
As a pro athlete, how could you not be thinking of your future, what you are making and where you are playing?My god am I tired of being right about these clowns......
“I mean, I haven’t really thought about it,” Nylander told The Athletic. “But the only thing I can think of is, if we have a great year here and we go deep and hopefully do what we want to do then obviously it’d be unreal to stay.”
You haven't thought about it? GTFO yesterday.
LOL. Yeah, we hate loyalty. Having wishy-washy mercs is clearly what we want. *facepalm*
He is of course. WHich is why the lying is insulting.As a pro athlete, how could you not be thinking of your future, what you are making and where you are playing?