I was reading on his Wikipedia entry that when he was playing with Vancouver, he requested a trade to an Eastern conference team so that he could be closer to his niece, who was going through a very serious illness, and her family in Toronto. The team traded him to Anaheim, which was geographically the furthest place from Toronto in the NHL, which caused him to retire.
You have to admire someone who puts his family above his career like that. Hope the GM or owner who made that decision feels plenty guilty now.
Originally posted by Peter The HegemonI was reading on his Wikipedia entry that when he was playing with Vancouver, he requested a trade to an Eastern conference team so that he could be closer to his niece, who was going through a very serious illness, and her family in Toronto. The team traded him to Anaheim, which was geographically the furthest place from Toronto in the NHL, which caused him to retire.
You have to admire someone who puts his family above his career like that. Hope the GM or owner who made that decision feels plenty guilty now.
My first guess turned out to be correct: Brian Burke
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Well, Lindros kept coming back too soon during the wild west of brain injury treatment and getting re-concussed with monster deathblows. Crosby, I believe, had a recurrence of symptoms from his original problems at the final stage of his recovery.