It's unfortunate since Kadri has easily been the hardest working player (or at least forward) on the team recently. A few other players should be getting sent home for missing all these games they haven't given a damn about.
I agree
I disagree.
Whatever the failures of other players may be (and we are all well aware of them), they have nothing to do with this incident.
If I or we suggested that they had something to do with this incident, you might have had a point.
This is not an exec rise in relativism. If it were, we could all agree that they are all less than they should be.
The fact is that after a two month slump of legendary proportions in which most players figuratively fail to appear for games, Kadri actually fails to appear the day following the most vacant fan numbing collective # mail it it games I have ever had the misfortune to see.
Whatever the sins of the other may be then, Kadri's nonchalant I don't give a rat's ass attitude should be considered on its own and not relative to the other turds on this roster.
Kadri needs to know the message he is sending has been received and is not welcome.
I have no problem with Kadri being disciplined. Never said I did.
As for the rest of them, their turns will come, perhaps not soon enough, but ...
If their turn hadn't arrived before Saturday's game against the Blues, it certainly arrived before that game was over. And I find what some of these guys did (or didn't do) in that game and in the games leading up to that game far, far more troubling than what Kadri did.
I was fortunate enough to see Cup wins in the 60s. I reflected on where I'd place this debacle in my Leafs history. I don't think it's the least talented team by a fair measure. But I think it's my least favorite Leafs team ever ... because they don't seem to give a crap.
In a number of those original six match ups during the season, I swear the intensity and mutual dislike was greater than a number of games sevens I've seen in the last decade. They really wanted to win those games and played their hearts out. And those games were played by many guys who made less money in their entire hockey career than the $122,000 per game Phil Kessel got for sulking on Saturday night.
Makes me wonder how much more of this I want to witness.