#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I love Phil

https://twitter.com/PKessel81/status/778426548651163648

Just sitting around the house tonight w my dog. Felt like I should be doing something important, but couldn't put my finger on it.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Phil the Thrill is a true American hero, my god.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

This and the tweet from Josh Pauls, a defenseman for the USA sled hockey team, fucking killed me.

"Really glad I was born without legs. The US sled team has a much better track record of success than the US stand up men's team...." - https://twitter.com/spudsusa27/status/778420627988320257

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

PHIL. What a legend.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

That is only his third tweet this year.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

He saves his words to say the important things.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I love this.

"Phil Kessel has tweeted 3 times this year. One of them was him raising the Cup, one of them ruining USA Hockey. Outstanding shooting %."

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I love his profile pic!

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, all the whining from Backes etc about this tweet is killing me.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

It's hilarious how mad some people are.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

"Team Baby" might have to give up their nickname to their elders...

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

It's nice because I absolutely needed more reasons to dislike David Backes.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I can't actually tell if this is sarcasm or not, but same, because I always inexplicably liked him despite thinking he was a dirty player, but wow he's not had a good last few weeks in the press. "Distasteful" and "aggravating" indeed.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone have a handy roundup somewhere? I don't really use twitter so I'm having trouble finding it all.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just going to set my Twitter to auto retweet everything Down Goes Brown says.

https://twitter.com/downgoesbrown/status/778643784166932481

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

hahahaha one of the responses:

https://twitter.com/frasermartens/status/778645873215451136

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

It's so funny. If i didn't know what Phil said, I would think he called them out personally based on their reactions.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, he does have a point with the part about that was how the team was constructed, although I strongly disagree with him that that was how the team needed to be built. Unless he meant it needed to be built that way to demonstrate that style of play isn't going to win. But I would have thought Oshie talking to the world last night about grit vs. skill would be more embarrassing or annoying to the players, even though everyone already knew Canada was a far more skilled team.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

But I would have thought Oshie talking to the world last night about grit vs. skill would be more embarrassing or annoying to the players, even though everyone already knew Canada was a far more skilled team.

You'd like to think so, but guys like Backes buy into the grit narrative hard. And it's not like Oshie's comment implied that USA had no skill. It was basically a super laughable way of saying "We know we're the underdogs but we can win because we have more grit/character/heart," which lol. That's how guys who know they aren't the most skilled conceive of their own value. Whereas just because a team is constructed to be gritty doesn't mean or justify leaving Kessel off it (Kane isn't exactly the most gritty player either), but Backes knows that the only reason he made the team is because of the philosophy that left Kessel off it. So he's not exactly wrong to take it personally, but lol at that petulance.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

As somebody said on Twitter, if he gets that upset over one tweet, he's in for a rude awakening the first time he plays poorly for the Bruins.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I would understand it if it was actual fringe (at least for this sort of national team) players like Abdelkader taking offense since they're inherently being insulted, but it's the guys who would have made it anyway even under competent management. This is really silly.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the only guy other than Backes who's been quoted on this and fits that description is Parise. And most of the quotes (including Parise's) look like the responses of people who were pushed to say something about the tweets by reporters and wanted to stop talking about it as quickly as possible.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Is there some reason to think he was talking about this tweet? The way it was phrased I thought he was talking about the stuff from the older guys who were on the 96 team.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

"I understand there’s hard feelings if you weren’t picked for the team or whatever"

I don't think anyone expects guys who played in 96 to have hard feelings about not making the 2016 team.

(He also was probably asked specifically about Kessel's tweet, even if his quotes don't mention Kessel by name.)

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Keep talking Backes. I'll keep disliking you and everything you stand for. (Minus puppies. The puppies are ok)

https://twitter.com/dj_bean/status/780457757648363525