However there are still plenty of mgmt groups that show no loyalty towards the players because after all it's a results driven business. I think that, like you expressed, Nylander is taking this mentality to the extreme especially considering that without hockey he'd be flipping burgers. All these types of players, like Hubs with his identical contract to that of Barkov, just shows how highly they think of themselves only to be screwed by themselves in the end i.e. pride comes before the fall. The Cats' brass, the Calculator specifically, tries to gauge how "painful" it is to deal with the players in order to slot them in their long term plans. Nylander is just showcasing his attitude that it's all about himself even though he was just abysmal when Matthews got hurt in the previous season. The Cats already have one such player in Ek who's more interested in posing than actually putting the effort in to make up for his contract expectations so the situation begs the question of how much dead weight a team can carry in terms of cap expenditure ...
, McCann, Malgin with some very nice prospects coming...
