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Chris Gratton after the Flyers offer-sheeted him away from Tampa. He had all the tools to be s beastly top 6 center, but no drive.
Players that completely checked out after getting paid
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Killakirillthethrill
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Some people in here are confusing players "checking out" with their GM giving them a huge contract right before Father Time caught up to them. Many guys hit their early 30's and just can't be anywhere close to the player they used to be.
Fire Sweeney
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DingerMcSlapshot
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Most of the answers have just been bad contracts to old players or injuries. How about Nurse, Hubby and Swayman?
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joestevens29
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I don't even know that Nurse checked out. He just never elevated his game the way the team and fans were hoping.
Now a guy to me that completely checked out was Eric Belanger. It wasn't even massive money as a whole, but for him it was a decent size contract and the guy just completely quit and didn't want to play for the Oilers.
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Taylor Hall with Buffalo.
Hall clearly never wanted to play for the Sabres. But they offered a big money deal for one year, and he knew he'd get traded to a contender at the deadline. So he took the money (8 million, he never got over 6 any other year in his career) and totally checked out.
37 games played. 2 goals. 17 assists. Hall looked like garbage and contributed nothing while the team hit the league's all-time longest losing streak. He checked out harder than any player I've ever seen.
You can tell it wasn't just that he got too old or had a decline, because he picked it back up after he was traded. 14 points in 16 games with Boston.
Hall clearly never wanted to play for the Sabres. But they offered a big money deal for one year, and he knew he'd get traded to a contender at the deadline. So he took the money (8 million, he never got over 6 any other year in his career) and totally checked out.
37 games played. 2 goals. 17 assists. Hall looked like garbage and contributed nothing while the team hit the league's all-time longest losing streak. He checked out harder than any player I've ever seen.
You can tell it wasn't just that he got too old or had a decline, because he picked it back up after he was traded. 14 points in 16 games with Boston.
Mr Nogatco
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Yeah that whole episode was kind of weird. At the time it was treated like a huge coup for Buffalo to land him
NYRfan85
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Perfect example of a current player that just got paid this season, and hasn't done crap since.
No way. Cally did a lot of things that don't show up on the scoresheet, played his heart out. The guy just couldn't catch a break with injuries.
ChaoticOrange
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This conversation is why what Draisaitl is doing this season is so impressive to me. Plenty of guys get paid and fade away. Leon got paid and went Super Saiyan.
mm11
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Agree, Callahan was 5' nothing a hundred nothing. Gave everything he had every game. Unfortunately bodies break down playing that way.
Kovalchuk ? Where ? He was always a great player wherever he went
I Hate Philadelphia
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Huberdeau hasn't checked out at all. He has been trying the entire time he's been in Calgary, but the Flames are trying to turn him into a grinding net front presence instead of leveraging his strengths
Too early to say that about Swayman, just a year in his contract and the team playing much worse hockey
Shark Finn
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The team around him went to crap. Gladly he still managed to squeeze out that
+ point season and got traded.
DingerMcSlapshot
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Totally see your point. Imho part of the reason the Oilers lost Broberg. Was Nurse's fault. Oilers still hurting and scared after Nurse boned them.
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Fire Bergevin...into the Sun
I just remember Dipietro skating in with a grin, like it was two buddies about to play wrestle, only to have his jaw busted 2 seconds later.And Brent Johnson laid him the f*** out!
Guy Larose
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Fun fact...Dipietro is still getting an NHL paycheck of $1.5M until 2029.
