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Datsyuk Announcement to Officially Leave NHL

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Easier, yes, easy, no. And his hometown team and the team he will play for are in different conferences, so, he'll visit his hometown exactly once, unless both team make it to Gagarin Cup finals, which is extreeemly unlikely.

He went for most money he could get in Russia, regardless where he will be in relation to his family. If Vladivostok paid him the most, he'd played there, 7 time zones away from his family, while still in Russia. As it is he is "mere" 2 time zones away. Family? What family?

This is actually a very logical post that hopefully ends the posts claiming: "OMG it's not 30 hours away people, don't you guys get that airplanes are way faster than cars". Thanks for the helpful insight. So instead of a 30 hour drive in his AvtoVAZ, he's actually only an 8 hour travel commitment away from his daughter - which means his excuse (to walk out on a commitment in which he was contractually obligated to fulfil) that has everyone siding with him, is actually bull$***.

Truth be told, he has 2-3 good years of hockey left and probably wants to win something before he's done. He picked a team in Russia that paid him a reasonable base salary (packed with performance based incentives I'm sure) with a good chance to win and never looked back. Who can fault him for doing something he'd rather do, right? Unfortunately that's why multi-million dollar contracts exist... To prevent people from doing something they feel like doing more, because they don't really feel like doing the first thing anymore, that much.

Great player, great career - but I stand by what Ive said so many times - he handled his departure worse than any other notable Detroit Red Wing, and shouldn't be recognized much moving forward.

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"Forgive but not forget"

This is something that's never going to go away. And will always be on his Red Wings "report card". It's a matter of forgiving him because of his 14 other years of dedication.

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Great player, great career - but I stand by what Ive said so many times - he handled his departure worse than any other notable Detroit Red Wing, and shouldn't be recognized much moving forward.

That's a bit strong, IMO. I still think Pavel was an outstanding player even compared to past Wings greats, and should be recognized as such. I just dislike his (or more likely his advisors) attempt to sugarcoat his decision to quit the NHL while still more or less on top. Just say it like it is: I can't play at a level I am used to, so I am moving to an easier league. Don't feed us bullcrap about "family" when it was clearly not the deciding factor at all.

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At first I thought it was a dick move on his part (and still do) to bail on the last year of his contract so he could "go home to his family", and then turn around and sign with a team 8-10 hours away from them, but it didn't turn out too bad in the end. His play was declining, he didn't want to play in Detroit anymore so he may have just half assed it out there this season anyways, Holland traded his cap hit and signed Nielson and Vanek, so it's not a big deal to me anymore. The show must go on.

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Giving back? He paid for this? I heard the Yekaterinburg hockey team team won 100 million rubles and decided to open this arena and name it after him.

"Each year the winners of the All-Russian Night League Festival receive a grant for construction of an ice arena from the Ministry of Sport, which is presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The "Datsyuk Arena" was built from the grant won by the "Neoplan" team, which won the All-Russian Night League Festival."

http://kuklaskorner.com/tmr/comments/if-youre-in-yekaterinburg-russia-on-friday

It seems like Datsyuk is being honored by his home town. Reminds me of the whole "Gordie Howe Arena" pitch fans were trying to make in Detroit that never panned out.

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Datsyuk is going to light it up this season.

Yeah. That fact that he's now playing with Kovalchuck kind of slipped by me - They'll be tearing it up. Kovy had 6 pts. in the 2 games they've played, Pav had 3.

Plus the team has Voynov, the wife-beater, and Dadonov, who has been top 20 in that league for the past couple years.

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Datsyuk and Kovy are deadly together...remember when nobody wanted to sign him to play with Pav?

Something tells me I'd Pav had quality wingers to play with, like Kovy, he'd still be in Detroit. But let's put sub part players on his line and make him do all the work load...thanks Holland.

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Datsyuk and Kovy are deadly together...remember when nobody wanted to sign him to play with Pav?

Something tells me I'd Pav had quality wingers to play with, like Kovy, he'd still be in Detroit. But let's put sub part players on his line and make him do all the work load...thanks Holland.

Give him the best wingers in the world, his body still wouldn't hold up 82 games anymore. Lets not make something that has nothing to do with Holland about him.

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