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Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Are we sure Shonda Rhimes has nothing to do with the Habs' management?

Re: Gossip and off-ice lives-Seguin

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

One person thinking Seguin is/could be as bad as Kane =/= fandom or meme giving him the Kane treatment. Meme and fandom aren't even close to treating Seguin like Kane.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
I always thought the Subban vs Pacioretty rumors were the usual post-trade bullshitting to make the trade sound better, but I kind of see where you're coming from too. I think I'll start believing it if Pacioretty is also traded this season or the next.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Don't be silly. Shonda Rhimes would do a much better job.

Re: Fantasy hockey

From: (Anonymous)
Oh god, redrafting. Look, maybe I will have a better team this year but I MADE SO MANY ROSTER MOVES.

I'd kinda like us to use GWGs as a stat this year, but that's just me.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Meanwhile I'm mourning the vestiges of my PK/Carey feelings and virtuously not looking in the direction of all the people who made what happened to PK all about "it must be soooo terrible for poor bb Carey to be in an environment that hates POC he must feel so awful he will definitely not re-sign with the Habs now !"

Re: Gossip and off-ice lives-Seguin

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

I don't think the OP was talking about a "Kane treatment" or meme treating him a certain way. They said they were backreading. There was an actual conversation about who would be the next Kane recently with multiple people participating. OP asked if that was based on a new scandal, since they hadn't heard anything. You are acting more persecuted than the OP.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Oh god, that annoyed me so much. Luckily it's dying down, but I really had to restrain myself from getting into it with some people on my dash back in the immediate aftermath of the trade.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
http://www.lapresse.ca/sports/hockey/201609/16/01-5021132-carey-price-pk-subban-etait-trop-imprevisible.php

Carey Price says "everyone" thought PK was too unpredictable.

Re: Gossip and off-ice lives-Seguin

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

Where on earth did they say they were backreading? They said they "read a lot of anon meme" and that "it seems to be picking up." If the Kane mention is referring to that one specific conversation that happened... not all that recently iirc?, then I misunderstood the comment, but if they're asking for an explanation of one specific person's opinion that Seguin is actually most likely to be the next Kane, not a trend of meme being down on him... it's not rocket science to figure out why someone might think that of him, even without any new scandals.

And no, disagreeing with someone and being annoyed by them, even if it's with undue tetchiness, isn't "acting persecuted," lol.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
As this plays out, I kind of think you might be right.

In related news, Beaulieu stood up for Patch on twitter and now Bergevin is "listening to offers". https://twitter.com/ArponBasu/status/776634308119453696?s=09

So. All Galchenyuk needs to do is post on instagram about how he's behind Pacioretty 100% and he will get traded! It's sure to work! (Please let this work.)

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
SA

I read the comments on reddit (always a risk) and there was an interesting subthread on risk assessment and which player is "really" riskier: https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/531zwm/we_the_players_and_management_simply_thought_pks/d7p84wj

But honestly, I think that misses the point. The whole team, both management and players, seem to have a narrative and they're sticking with it. In the same article, Emelin says, "It's best for the team. There will be more discipline. That's my opinion, anyway."

I guess I'm a little disappointed. It's just not necessary for them to try to make PK out to be undisciplined, too risky, whatever. The trade is done and I don't see the point in it.

Re: Hockey Media

From: (Anonymous)
I have no idea where this goes, but the Prospect Tournament has started! Any teams you're following/would like to win?

http://redwings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=891958

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
The trade is done and I don't see the point in it.

I'd guess the point is for ass-saving PR reasons, because of how unpopular the trade was in Montreal.

I think you're right about the debate about "risk" somewhat missing the point that this really seems to be a party line determined to attack Subban's character. Someone else in the reddit thread mentioned the title quote probably wasn't even the most damning remark that Price made -- it was comparing Subban to Weber and suggesting more or less that Subban's problem was that he doesn't "buy in" to the team concept and work ethic, unlike Weber.

The whole situation seems weird. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Habs management was pressuring players into making these statements (the article says Emelin commented "timidly") but I also wouldn't be at all surprised if this is what those players actually believe.

Re: Gossip and off-ice lives-Seguin

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

That's how it looks when you crank up the aggression to 100 right off the bat, lol. And, hey, some people manage to answer questions and misunderstandings about actual rocket science without the undue "tetchiness."

Re: Gossip and off-ice lives-Seguin

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

Then you don't clearly don't understand what the word "persecuted," means if you think all expressions of hostility = acting like you're being persecuted.

And that's because questions about actual rocket science are cool and interesting, unlike questions assuming that something ~new must have happened to make something dislike your "narratively better soft bro," when said bro has already given everyone plenty of reason to dislike him.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Yeah, that occurred to me basically immediately after I hit enter, lol.

This just seems weird and kind of upsetting. (Especially questioning Subban's work ethic? Wtf.) There's a certain amount of character assassination after unpopular trades, but I don't feel like I usually hear it from the players. I think they probably believe it at least somewhat, though I wouldn't be surprised either if Habs management had a hand in it.

The Habs in general seem like one big weird situation. I guess we'll see how it shakes out over the next couple seasons.

Re: Hockey Media

From: (Anonymous)
Apparently some of the games are being streamed, but my team's (the Pens) seems not to be among them.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Petty Aside: all these recent critical quotes from Price are honestly killing my PK/Carey shipping feelings more than the distance/trade did.

Re: Fantasy hockey

From: (Anonymous)
I want to play again, renewing the league. I don't really care if we keep some of the roster or not.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Same. I wanted to spin them into post-breakup sour grapes, but it's hard. :(

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Yeah. :(

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

I think they probably believe it at least somewhat, though I wouldn't be surprised either if Habs management had a hand in it.

Yeah, thinking about it, what seems most plausible to me is that they do believe it at least somewhat, but management is encouraging them to talk openly about it. Because, yeah, this is above and beyond what I feel is the normal kind of post-trade character assassination, which seems to happen more noisily in the press and much more tacitly with the team? I can see how other players might resent Subban's style of play on a team with a risk-averse system, even if evaluating Subban himself as a player who is a risk to have on the team is off the mark.

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
I'm the anon who said in the other subthread that I was in mourning for dying PK/Carey feelings, and yeah, this is what I was referring to, not really the distance/trade.

:(

Re: What's Up With Your Team- Age of Arbitration

From: (Anonymous)
Price comment was bit shocking, fandom made them out to be BFF but his comments tells me that's not true.