Billionaire Boys Club

That's what the NHL is. An exclusive club filled with WASPy, sneaky, shrewd, uber-rich businessmen, and they won't let you in without the secret password...that and VERY deep pockets. They are loyal, play things closet to the vest and take care of their own, something Jim Balsillie learned quite recently, and something Dany Heatley is learning today, through our very own Uncle Brian, no less.

Uncle Brian let it be known that Dany Heatley would not become one of my delinquent little brother, the Toronto Maple Leafs, because he ain't down with how Heater handled his trade request:

TSN

"We're not going to be in on that. He's a good player but I have certain guidelines on how players ask for trades...For a player to pop off and say he wants out or leak it (to the media), in my mind you are now no longer interested in your team. If you've done that you've handicapped them, you've handcuffed your GM...As long as you are on that team, you owe them to maximize the asset, and once you've taken that step, sorry I don't accept that."

Really Uncle Brian? Really? Did you just say that you don't accept that? Because as I recall, that's exactly what Chris Pronger did in Edmonton.

Actions speak louder than words Uncle Brian, and if you do not accept such behavior because it goes against your ideology, as you suggest in your statements, then wouldn't said behavior prevent you from working with such a player? And yet was it not you who orchestrated the acquisition of Pronger from Edmonton, who made it quite public that he was not happy in Edmonton and wanted a trade?

Hm.

Get off your high horse, dude! Maybe Heater's strategy wasn't ideal but he wants out of Ottawa and he doesn't want to be jerked around by the suits of the Sens organization, who are grabbing at straws just to keep their team afloat, so yeah he forced their hand, was it questionable? Maybe, but don't act all high and mighty, pretending like your shit don't stink, because it does Uncle Brian, it does!

You're probably just upset because he has NO interest in coming to Toronto. One of the best snipers in the NHL and you don't want him because he hurt Brian Murray and Corey Clouston's feelings, bitch please! You ain't foolin' no one!

I think you and Daddy Wilson need a few more rounds of golf.