Mats Sundin didn't want to leave the team he'd played with for over a decade in the name of a rebuild, and was booed for it.
Phil Kessel accepted a trade so that the Leafs could kickstart their rebuild, and...was booed for it.
Welcome to life inside the centre of the hockey universe, where logic goes to die.
This isn't a new trend, sadly. Tomas Kaberle got boos for not leaving until he left as a pending free agent. Bryan McCabe accepted his trade and got boos when he returned for coming back.
Darcy Tucker and Tie Domi, not even remotely the same calibre of players as others mentioned in this article, orchestrated to block their trades away from Toronto, and yet avoided the same criticism.