Why? They are right?
You can't just Pike out on your team when it's your last chance to push for finals for no good reason. One of them has 6 week old twins with no health issues there wasn't a medical emergency and the others wife is due in 3 weeks time there was no reason for either of those players to miss the game.
If you want to spend time with your new family take paternity leave don't pick and choose which games you will and won't play.
We obviously don't know the details, but my general take without specific details...
When getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, that SHOULD put you into CEO or business owner with people depending on you territory/expectations, not a 9-5 job, miss a week, no problem, we'll bring someone else in to cover your shift.
Yeah going into a hub was inconvenient, but it wouldn't be that different to the stresses placed on people also paid several hundred thousand dollars a year, people working 12-16+ hour days trying to save their business during covid.
Help can be hired when on that kind of money.