See this?

It's the inventor of the curve ball. 

It was perfected by William "Candy" Cummings. Over the years a curve ball has been known to been released by a pitcher's hand. The top spin delivered laterally on the ball can cause it to go 15 feet straight and within the last 50 feet to drop another 20 feet due to aerial spin on the ball.

What does that matter?

Stefan Legein threw the hockey world a curve ball by retiring at age 19 without ever stepping a skate on NHL ice.

Does anyone actually believe him? I don't. He'll be around, his whiny bitch ways in Syracruse were the foreshadowing for this tantrum. Legein will be back, and probably play a few games in the NHL, never understanding his kicking tantrum hurt himself bad.

There are players drafted and quit hockey for honorable reasons. Legein is no 1976 Jeff McDill who could have gone #1 but said he wanted no part of pro hockey and let them know. In the years after he went to university in Canada and played part time hockey to pay tuition.

Minor leagues:

1st year

72 games: 55 goals, 121 points as a defenseman.

4 years - degree and University done, so done with hockey.

75 games 27 goals and 63 points.

And was actually quoted in "The Hockey News" as saying - "I probably could have had 120 goals and 300 points that season. 

But I didn't want to play in the NHL, I wanted to be an Architect, and I threw the last few years. So they'd leave me alone"."

He ended up as a firefighter. An honorable profession, but did he ever hit the expectations of his peers. Have you?