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Mike Richards: Leader or A Case of the Squirts?
Written by Ryan   
Friday, 04 December 2009 09:11

The New Yorker, please consider this as my application.

It was good to see Mike Richards try and spark his team last night with a second period fight, I just have to question the timing. Less than five minutes left in the second isn't really a great moment to try and rally the troops. Unless you really had to take a shit. Then you could get in that fight and get sent to the locker room and have some peace and quiet. Maybe he even has a Kindle. Man did he get popped with that opening punch. And why Bieska when Burrows, a less adept fighter, has been begging for it all night? Either way, neither captain's fight worked in the end. Zing!

I was thinking towards the end of the game last night, and especially after that third goal went in, that losing is bad enough but having to answer a bunch of questions afterwards, that you could probably list off from memory, must be the worst part of it. Like those WWII vets who got married before they left just to get laid and then ended up having to come home to the biggest nag east of the Mississippi for the next 50 years when they surprised themselves and survived.

So real time, I have not gone to read any interviews from last night. But I'm going to go to the Flyers website and see if I can get some of the questions that were asked of the players and John Stevens after the game. I'll list them here:

(Ah, here we go. Players React. Launching Flyers TV. Holy Family commercial. Pronger talking)

  • (to Pronger) Johnny called it a lack of confidence. Does that kind of spread through the locker room a bit? Like one guy and then to another guy?
  • Damn skip to Briere interview, but they definitely just asked him about not scoring, which Pronger has just discussed at length.
  • Damn! Right to Boucher, but they once again definitely just asked him about not scoring goals.

So that didn't really work. Flyers TV is editing the reporters questions from their videos. But it looks like the thinking was "let's get a defenseman's, a forward's, and even the goalie's opinion on the 8 scoreless periods!"

The goalie.

Let me repeat that - the goalie's opinion on not scoring goals.

I'm always teetering back and forth between railing on these guys and trying to just ignore it. I swear to the lord almighty that these reporters don't exist, and there is a computer program that reads the box scores and inserts current players names into a very limited number of templates that they already have set up for any possible hockey story (maybe 10). No interesting angles, just the one sentence lead, the tiny bit of vanilla analysis shared among them, a boat load of quotes, and then a recap of the actual events of the game. Like I'm reading this from fucking Thailand and didn't watch it. "Where a pinching Willie Mitchell found a bouncing puck between the hash marks and lifted a back hander past Brian Boucher, who was being interfered with by whoever the fuck." I guarantee that sentence is in everything you're reading today.

Why does anyone even have to ask these guys questions? They never say anything anyway. Work harder, team effort, capitalize on opportunities…there's nothing you can't predict. Which, in fact, I know you know, because you ask them very steered questions. So why not jump right to conjecture and dumping jokes?



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Very true, says Jeff Carter
written by a guest, December 05, 2009
Perhaps he (Knuble) could send that guide in a Santa Sack? Right now, I am just looking for a damn case of tastykakes.
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written by FGSB::Ryan, December 04, 2009
Guest, not everyone can swat a puck 10 inches for a goal. There's only a couple guys in the league who know how to score on rebounds. Maybe Knuble could send us a guide for a small consulting fee?


Stand in front of net. Swing stick.

PS - first time I read that I thought Briere had actually said it, very tricky sentence structure. Now that would have been a fucking quote.
From the Desk of Sammy C.
written by a guest, December 04, 2009
"We create chances, but it seems we're not at the net," said Briere, whose 13-11-1 team misses the presence of the departed Mike Knuble.

Ah, that's it, Sammy. Mike Knuble's presence. Just like they missed his presence 7 games ago, when they were 12-5-1. Idiot.
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written by FGSB::Fran, December 04, 2009
Carter for Shea Weber!
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written by a guest, December 04, 2009
His ride came to a screeching halt. Time to fix the cables.
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written by FGSB::Ryan, December 04, 2009
Oh yeah, forgot the have fun part. I saw a Jeff Carter interview last night on the NHL Network, and the interviewer was pretty good, but if all you knew of Jeff Carter was from that interview you would have thought he was an amusement park junkie traveling from park to park in the interest of "just having fun."
the standard answer
written by kramrenirk, December 04, 2009
"I have to bear down and, uh, be strong on the puck and, uh, get pucks on net and, uh, finish my checks and, uh, win those battles in the corners and along the boards and, uh, you know, just play my game and try to have fun, eh?"

Yeah. And he sees the ice well...

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