I get that the stakes are high and so everyone is uptight. But all of this dumb bullshit 'hurr durr he was tricked or convinced to sign here but didn't want to and is now quiet quitting on the team..." Like seriously?
He's Scandinavian so he doesn't express himself like North Americans do and so ethnocentric people from North America take his flat affect appearance (in our eyes) and extrapolate a whole bunch of dumb shit.
When he was scoring ten goals in his first NHL games and staring down reporters it was that he was a stone cold killer.
Now he's struggling and it's probably because he didn't have the courage to leave our team but suddenly wants to leave so badly that he's intentionally sewering our playoff run. Like, the thing he has worked his entire life towards, he is now not trying because....troglodytes think so.
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Have any of you ever done anything at something resembling a high level with any kind of pressure? Ever experienced, or witnessed, a funk that just keeps growing and swallowing you deeper and deeper and becoming more and more self-perpetuating?
It happens.
Also, speaking as a 40 year old, I'm a lot more equipped to get out of funks now than when I was 25.
It's frustrating and he probably can't sleep at night.
When I was a player at far far lower levels I recall slumps where I was basically afraid of the puck because it felt like nothing I did ever went right and it just felt like a spotlight for humiliation. It looks like Petey's feeling that way and, having experienced similar feelings, I have a lot of empathy for him.
For those saying he sucks now or his contract is an albatross. Let's make a deal. Walk your hyperbolic opinion back a little bit, or else when he puts up 100 points next year or the year after you have to delete your account, okay?