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Datsyuk Announcement to Officially Leave NHL

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SKA St. Petersburg has our prospect, Kadeykin. Hope some of Datsyuks magic rubs off!

If he does rub off on kadeykin, then pavs leaving a year early is entirely worth it.

Other wise, I hope pav has a miracle career in russia.

Ha.

KIDDING.

he gave living human tendons for the wings, if he wants to end his career in Russia I think he's deserved that right.

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I've said it before, but will express again, his leaving has left a very bad taste in my mouth. While I think the team will likely be better without him now, that's not the point. He could have put the team in a very bad position and be much worse off without him...on hook with cap hit. That's also not the point.

I'm all for a player deciding they don't want to play anymore, or retire due to injury, etc. However, I don't think a player should decide to retire with time left on their contract (if they've signed past 35)...unless injured. The thing is, if you are over 35 and sign a 2-3 year deal, at that point in your life, you're not going to all of a sudden decide that you don't want to play anymore. This is why the cap hit stays if a player retires early (if signing past 35). There is the thought that a player might not play out the contract, so if you sign something for 3 years, you better be committed to fulfilling the contract (i.e. not signing for 10 years to keep cap hit low and retiring early).

So, even if he simply retired, I'd still have a bad taste in my mouth. Magnifying that is that he hasn't retired from hockey, he simply didn't want to play in the NHL anymore and is now playing in another league. I now all the family reasons, etc., but that stuff doesn't all of a sudden pop up and you can easily commit another 6-8 months away anyway.

I couldn't care less how well he plays in Russia for a couple reasons (1) I'm not pissed about missing him playing for the Wings, it's the principle and (2) regardless of the first reason, the KHL is so different than the NHL it is pointless to even look at stats and consider how that could translate.

I don't want to have bad taste, because I really liked the guy as a player and a person, but I can't help it.

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I've said it before, but will express again, his leaving has left a very bad taste in my mouth. While I think the team will likely be better without him now, that's not the point. He could have put the team in a very bad position and be much worse off without him...on hook with cap hit. That's also not the point.

I'm all for a player deciding they don't want to play anymore, or retire due to injury, etc. However, I don't think a player should decide to retire with time left on their contract (if they've signed past 35)...unless injured. The thing is, if you are over 35 and sign a 2-3 year deal, at that point in your life, you're not going to all of a sudden decide that you don't want to play anymore. This is why the cap hit stays if a player retires early (if signing past 35). There is the thought that a player might not play out the contract, so if you sign something for 3 years, you better be committed to fulfilling the contract (i.e. not signing for 10 years to keep cap hit low and retiring early).

So, even if he simply retired, I'd still have a bad taste in my mouth. Magnifying that is that he hasn't retired from hockey, he simply didn't want to play in the NHL anymore and is now playing in another league. I now all the family reasons, etc., but that stuff doesn't all of a sudden pop up and you can easily commit another 6-8 months away anyway.

I couldn't care less how well he plays in Russia for a couple reasons (1) I'm not pissed about missing him playing for the Wings, it's the principle and (2) regardless of the first reason, the KHL is so different than the NHL it is pointless to even look at stats and consider how that could translate.

I don't want to have bad taste, because I really liked the guy as a player and a person, but I can't help it.

To comment on just a small part of your post, I'm just interested/excited to see how he plays relative to the rest of the KHL. I have no desire to attempt to translate what he does there to the NHL.

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To comment on just a small part of your post, I'm just interested/excited to see how he plays relative to the rest of the KHL. I have no desire to attempt to translate what he does there to the NHL.

I mean he'll play really really well because KHL is a crappy league. One of Datsyuk's biggest challenges (maybe the only one because he was that good) were the NHL defender's ability to take space away from him. KHL defender's just can't do that at the level NHL defenders can. Datsyuk will be running circles around those guys without effort. Add in Kovalchuck holy jesus.

Looking at it from Datsyuk's perspective, he made a genious decision to leave. He'll still be a badass even at age 38 and he'll have fun doing it.

Of Course looking at it from my perspective as a fan... Grrrrr....

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