BoC Collaboration Gains a New Friend
Mathieu Schneider's agent is on board! It's building, folks, like some kind of building being built.
[SLEEK EDIT: Also relevant, after taking two weeks off with some sort of bullshit "I'm moving" excuse, I got back to PuckTooning! Conveniently, the subject is also about breaking up with Schneider.]
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The OC Register has suggested that it's probably necessary for Mats Sundin to make a decision before any Schneider trade can really happen, but if the Kings do become the destination of choice, I don't know why Mats matters.
Perhaps it's really just to get another bidder in on the Schneider auction (the Mats-loser, if you will)? Who knows? Maybe the Ducks will get something of value in return.
Getting value back in a trade certainly isn't necessary in my mind, but I certainly wouldn't complain.
Maybe Montreal might want him?
I lose more and more respect for Anaheim daily. Move him already! Let him know where he is going, let him get settled. You already screwed him, why by dumping him, why drag this on anymore.
And Toronto would be a terrible match. The team didn't like him the first time, and the feeling is mutual. Besides, too much off-the-ice drama there. If he is going tob e shipped to a team with no chance, might as well trade him to LA so he can be close to family. No sense in cheating him out of happiness on two fronts.
I lose more and more respect for Anaheim daily.
Aren't the Sharks also too close to the salary cap and isn't it sort of assumed that they have a player that will be shipped out of town?
I suppose that's respectable, though.
You see, it's completely different when the Sharks signed Craig Rivet to a 4-year deal and then traded him to Buffalo the next season because... well, because they wear blue and it's a very soothing color.
Oh how tu quoque* of you two.
Did I say the Sharks are more respectful? They are my team (hometown loyalty and all), but they have been WAAAY shady lately. They did Rivet wrong, and it still pisses me off.
Besides, they are very close to being dead to me this season after the whole signing Rob Blake thing. I hate that prick.
*I'm housesitting for my former rhetoric professor, so I'm feelin' my fallacies. Though I'll admit I just raided the bookshelf in her office to make sure I had that one right.
Oh how tu quoque* of you two.
Right or wrong, I have no idea what that means.
Even so, I bring up the Sharks as but one example; there's several teams that still need management before training camp. Should all trades have been completed by the end of July? Is the solution a mid-summer trade deadline, so that players can easily manage their living and mail situation?
I dunno, there's very little that makes me think that Schneider is cheated here. He's a professional athlete playing a sport where trades and changed-addresses are a very commonplace. Even moreso, he willingly signed into a situation where this was a very real possibility. If an idiot like me can predict Scott's return and its salary implications, it seems foreseeable enough.
And I'm not going to fault Burke for looking for options. There's no difference to the Ducks whether Schneider gets traded August 1 or August 31; making a hasty move in dead time isn't serving the fans.
Is any of it honorable? I suppose not. But I'm not one to blame Burke because of the realities of professional sports. It's no different to me than calling up a kid from the minors for a few weeks. In either case, I fully hope that Burke is working for the Ducks first and the player second. That's what he's paid to do, after all.
Besides, they are very close to being dead to me this season after the whole signing Rob Blake thing. I hate that prick.
That's for Rudy to respond to; I kind of like Blake, but I'm not really going to get in any dispute about it.
*I'm housesitting for my former rhetoric professor, so I'm feelin' my fallacies.
Sweet! Party at the rhetorician's!
DAMN IT! I thought I left a response post, but I guess it didn't save. Oh well, it wouldn't matter anyway.
Right or wrong, I have no idea what that mean
tu quoque means "and you, another." Basically the official Latin for two wrongs don't make a right. Or, just because one side did it doesn't mean that it is ok for the other side. It's one of the key faulty arguments.
Sweet! Party at the rhetorician's!
And the rhetorician has a pool! I know that isn't a big deal to SoCalers, but it's awesome to me. =) And a 42" flat screen HD TV with Direct TV. I'm in heaven.
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