Completely with you on Dumo. Really outstanding player for a long time that slid a bit under the radar with all the offensive stars.
Jake? Guess we'll never know. Seemed to me like he wanted to stay. I can't disagree with you though that he's better off elsewhere.
- Tojo.
Jake 100% wanted to stay, but probably not so much that he was willing to take a $10M pay cut over the next 7 years.
I was ok with moving on from him but aside from the fact he was really talented, everyone may have underestimated the impact in the locker room. This feels like a team full of players that don't really want to play with each other.
We've had so many great locker room guys over the years... Whitney, Talbot, Laraque, Fleury, Kunitz, Kessel... Jake was a quirky guy that everyone liked. Is there anyone fun left?