As someone who was a goalie, don’t call me out after I let in a bad goal. Especially a game winning goal where I feel like shit for letting my team down.
You have to be a real asshole to do that. Teammates need to have each other’s backs.
This is one of the only level-headed posts I've seen thus far in this thread. As someone who used to coach, I always told my guys that they'd be benched if they started chirping each other during a game--that it was their job to pick each other up. The best thing in the world to see as a coach is when the other team starts yelling at each other or the ref, because it means their heads are out of the game.
So much of the rest of this--24+ pages of this--is overreaction, and I wonder how much the team is overreacting as well. I've seen:
-People saying it was a good move because he's a Trump supporter. I'm about as far Left as you can get, but you don't throw away an asset because of his politics, and I guarantee you ADA ain't the only Trumper on this roster.
-People calling ADA a racist and pointing to the juniors incident. As has been pointed out
repeatedly, the incident in juniors happened in the locker room during a season in which Sarnia did not have ANY Black players. My guess is that it was a homophobic comment, which is covered under the same rule he was punished for. That doesn't make it much better, but we need to stop calling him a proven racist when there isn't any verifiable history.
-People saying he should be cut because he fought a teammate. Should all of these players be cut as well?
Look, I think ADA should be traded as well, mainly because of the depth on the right side of the D. But 8 games in to a two year extension? Unless something
egregious happened, there are better ways to handle it than waiving him. Thus far (and as more info comes out, I may change my mind on this), ADA's punishment doesn't really fit his "crimes." Also, by waiving him, you've pretty much eliminated ANY trade value he might have had (value that would raise the further into his contract, as the commitment would be shorter for the receiving team). If, as expected, he clears waivers, we suddenly find ourselves in a situation where we will either need to have him on the Taxi squad (around the main team, being all toxic) or in Hartford (around prospects, being all toxic). The whole thing just feels like a knee-jerk reaction where the team made a decision based on emotion without thinking any of it through from a logical standpoint.