NewAgeOutlaw
Belie Dat!
That's a pretty **** argument, because I thought it was established that Crosby wanted Kunitz and Dupuis on his wings. Had he wanted Iginla, you'd have a point, but I'm pretty sure he was quite happy with playing with Kunitz and Dupuis.
Can you not read? I said I thought it was established that he wanted to stay with Kunitz and Dupuis, and after you said it wasn't because "why would Sid want to do that?", I responded with it's entirely possible and you just kept repeating "Why would Sid want that?". Your argument is no better than mine because we have absolutely no clue. I'm saying it's entirely possible. You're dismissing it because you can't fathom that Crosby thinks any differently than you do.
Who said anything about demanded? It's entirely possible that when Bylsma asked him if he wanted to play with Iginla, he said "I'd rather stay with Dupuis since what we have now is working". That's not demanding and you have no idea whether that's true or not.
-Implying we know anything about what Crosby thinks.
There you go again, just making more and more baseless assumptions based on what you want to think.
Apparently me saying "it's completely possible" is equivalent to me saying "that totally happened". Yawn. Your close-minded opinions are adorable.
It's funny that you accuse my argument of being completely wild speculation when your entire argument is just that. You have no clue whether Sid wanted Dupuis on his line over Iginla. You have absolutely nothing to support that Dupuis over Iginla wasn't influenced by Crosby. Is that me saying that it was Crosby's influence? No, I'm saying it's completely possible. You're in this reality where players don't have biases and don't enjoy stability. You're assuming players are robots. You're dismissing the entire possibility that KCD was Crosby's call with absolutely no support for it. Could it have been a Disco Dumbass decision? Of course. Could it have been Sid lobbying to Bylsma to keep that line together since it was producing? That also is a possibility. It was probably a combination of both to be honest, you're just dismissing the latter as anything possible for no other reason other than you don't agree with someone wanting Dupuis over Iginla.
It seems to me that you originally said that K-C-D stayed together because that's what Crosby wanted and now you are back tracking because you got called out for saying that.
I do not believe Sid is a robot, I merely refuse to believe that he would rather play with Pascal Dupuis than Jerome Iginla. You, on the other hand, seem to believe that Sid is so blinded by preference that he prefered to play with a clearly inferior player, hurting himself and the team in the process.
Just stop. I'm not close-minded because I choose not to believe what you are claiming. What you are claiming just doesn't make sense. You can act like you didn't claim it was Crosby's call to keep K-C-D together, but the reality is that is exactly what you meant with your original post.