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CarltonTheBear said:So in the last few years the following Tampa players have either asked for trades or are rumoured to want out:
Martin St. Louis
Steve Stamkos
Jonathan Drouin
Something's up there.
Nik the Trik said:I think this shows some of the pitfalls in a super talented prospect getting drafted to a pretty good team. I think what happens is they expect young players to fit into the roles that they have available and expect them to do that with a degree of veteran proficiency rather than letting them figure out their game at their own pace. Then, when they struggle with it, you start hearing about "attitude problems".
Frank E said:Nik the Trik said:I think this shows some of the pitfalls in a super talented prospect getting drafted to a pretty good team. I think what happens is they expect young players to fit into the roles that they have available and expect them to do that with a degree of veteran proficiency rather than letting them figure out their game at their own pace. Then, when they struggle with it, you start hearing about "attitude problems".
It could be that a third overall pick wants more ice-time, and given all the talent on that team, he doesn't get it...and that makes him angry.
Regardless, at 20 years old with a total of 6 NHL goals, publicly requesting a trade probably lends more to LK's reported rumours.
Nik the Trik said:It's tough to connect any dots though. If St. Louis wanted out because of the Olympic snub, Stamkos wants to cash-in as a UFA and Drouin....well, I'm assuming Drouin just wants to play more. You can argue that maybe they should be developing Drouin better but outside of that I don't know if it speaks to anything in particular.
Frank E said:It could be that a third overall pick wants more ice-time, and given all the talent on that team, he doesn't get it...and that makes him angry.
CarltonTheBear said:Well I'd say that there's a common theme of Tampa not treating it's star (or future star) players how they want to be treated.
Nik the Trik said:Sure but if "how they want to be treated" involves writing them a blank check or handing out Olympic roster spots on the basis of pacification then I guess I'd say it doesn't seem to present a theme of them doing anything wrong.
CarltonTheBear said:Well that's assuming that Stamkos' only issue with Tampa right now is money. And all the speculation out there right now says that it isn't. If anything the major sticking point in the media has been about the coach.
CarltonTheBear said:As for St. Louis' snub, yeah I would say that a player thinking the GM of his own team thinking that his GM snubbed him like that would fall into that category.
Nik the Trik said:CarltonTheBear said:As for St. Louis' snub, yeah I would say that a player thinking the GM of his own team thinking that his GM snubbed him like that would fall into that category.
You lost me here.
Potvin29 said:The Turris trade and perhaps the Niedereiter trade are possible comparables.
Potvin29 said:The Turris trade and perhaps the Niedereiter trade are possible comparables.
CarltonTheBear said:Yeah, sorry, I had 2 different sentences in my head going at the same time there. St. Louis thought he should have been on Team Canada. St. Louis thought his own GM would have felt the same way. St. Louis was upset with how his GM treated him in snubbing him.