Legein Quits?

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2008/08/20/jackets20.ART_ART_08-20-08_C3_T1B34HQ.html?sid=101

Short version: A prospect that a lot of people were very high on (maybe not one of our "A" group, but right at the top of the "B" list) has apparently decided, on the verge of his first pro year out of Junior, to quit hockey entirely. He informed his agent, agent informed the team, family apparently doesn't know why and they're going to be discussing it with him.

The article makes it sound like this has been building for a bit, but from most people who'd seen him at our prospect camp or playing up in Niagara, this is seriously out of left field. (Hell, including me - he was spending a fair bit of time talking and joking with people when he was in public at the prospect camp!)

If he's really done, I'm very sorry for him - I hope things work out for him. I really liked how he played in the world championships and Super Series, and was really looking forward to rooting for him one day in the Nat.

OK, so what -was- the plan here?

Reading the newstubes this morning there seems to be a huge outrage over what's going on in China with a group of foreign protestors.

Let me see if I got this all right.

1) Students, artists, and "citizen journalists" get tourist visas to China for the olympics.

2) Said tourists stage various protests in China, mostly on the subject of Tibet.

3) Tourists are shocked and appalled when they get arrested for this and demand their release? Particularly the "citizen journos" despite their lack of actual press credentials that might allow this.

4) Internets aflame with RABBLERABBLE over the fact that a totalitarian country cracks down on dissenting voices.

Really, seriously, what did people expect to happen? A pat on the head, some steamed buns, and a "Don't do that again, you fiesty little scamps!" This is a country who has a historical precedent of shooting political dissidents in the back of the head and billing their surviving family for the cost of the bullet. Being arrested should have been EXPECTED and planned for. The possibility of deportation should have been considered.

As it is, I'm sure the US government will probably step in and get them released to US custody (and then on the first plane back to the states, I suspect), but c'mon. Don't act like this is somehow unusual or surprising.