Jeff O'Neill

There's Canadians that do it, too.

Let's not forget that.

The biggest one in recent memory in this city was a guy that grew up 25 minutes up Yonge Street from the rink.

And the exit strategy, and I'm not suggesting this is what's happening with these guys.

I don't know what's going to happen with the future of all these players.

But the exit strategy in a Canadian market is blame the crazy media and spin the passion of the fans against themselves.

Because there's an understanding that there's always a little bit of an inferiority complex up here.

Because the Canadian teams haven't won in a long time.

Winters are tough.

Canadian dollar is what it is.

The taxes.

There's a lot of different things that the Canadian fan is naturally concerned about.

which a lot of them are legitimate.

And there's also an understanding that there are warm southern American markets where players can go and be completely left alone because, for the most part, nobody cares and nobody knows who they are.

There's some people that do, and they sell at the buildings.

But you can walk down the main street in a lot of cities, and you have complete anonymity.

So with that reality and that juxtaposition,

It's the play.

You know, like if I put myself in that player X on team Y. Yeah.

whoever it is, American, Canadian, whatever, in a Canadian market, I'm thinking I want to leave.