Around the League XXXIV: Offseason

[Cubs2024WSChamps]

Doug Wilson just bodied the Sens.

John Tavares, you really have no excuse not to wear teal next year....

 

[JaegerDice]

 

[BK]

He is 100% correct.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Not if it is true. It will be an awkward room.

If NHL locker rooms can survive players f***ing teammates wives and destroying families an NHL locker room will survive the Hoffman's (Well future Hoffman's as they are only engaged)

 

[Teemu]

Really? I am not aware of the other stuff.

He frequently quarreled with teammates and management in juniors and was twice cut from his team because of it (hence why he went undrafted in his draft year, then barely drafted the next). Obviously, he also had a pretty long run without any significant incidents, but some habits die hard.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

You can play with guys you hate.

 

[Cubs2024WSChamps]

Sens are gifting the Avs a very good shot at Jack Hughes.

GMs really need to take advantage of the Sens GM. Kick him while he's down and out. Wilson just made him look stupid

 

[JaegerDice]

Yeah, they're professional athletes. Everybody has people at work they don't get along with, but have to continue to cooperate with to do their job and succeed at their goals.

We romanticize sport, but a lockerroom is just a workplace. Not everybody has to be drinking buddies and playing mario kart together on road trips all the time.

 

[BK]

If NHL locker rooms can survive players ****ing teammates wives and destroying families an NHL locker room will survive the Hoffman's (Well future Hoffman's as they are only engaged)

You might not get this but these things impact teams in a negative way. If you don't trust a guy in the room then there is a 99% chance you don't trust them on the ice. This impacts results.

If you are talking about the Keith/Sharp situation, that was never confirmed and was broken by a NY Giants former player. Teams don't survive these situation often or really at all.

 

[BK]

Yeah, they're professional athletes. Everybody has people at work they don't get along with, but have to continue to cooperate with to do their job and succeed at their goals.

We romanticize sport, but a lockerroom is just a workplace. Not everybody has to be drinking buddies and playing mario kart together on road trips all the time.

It's not and you will never seem to understand this. Professional sports are nothing like real jobs, nothing is similar except that they get paid.

 

[Hawkaholic]

You might not get this but these things impact teams in a negative way. If you don't trust a guy in the room then there is a 99% chance you don't trust them on the ice. This impacts results.

If you are talking about the Keith/Sharp situation, that was never confirmed and was broken by a NY Giants former player. Teams don't survive these situation often or really at all.

Absolutely.

 

[JaegerDice]

It's not and you will never seem to understand this. Professional sports are nothing like real jobs, nothing is similar except that they get paid.

Like I said, we romanticize sport. We make it a special, unique little flower in our minds.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Like I said, we romanticize sport. Thank you for supporting that statement.

You're just wrong.

 

[JaegerDice]

You're just wrong.

Professional athletes can and do play with guys they don't particularly care for, all the time, throughout the league.

 

[BK]

Like I said, we romanticize sport. Thank you for supporting that statement.

If you think your everyday job is similar to being a pro athlete and your office life is similar to a locker room, you are romanticizing your life. I have close friends who have been drafted and have been in NHL lockers as a player and they say working a 9 to 5 is nothing like being an pro-athlete. JD I know you are not this foolish.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Professional athletes can and do play with guys they don't particularly care for, all the time, throughout the league.

Yes, but in a lot of cases it probably affects their on ice play. To act as if it doesn't affect anything is foolish.

 

[BK]

Professional athletes can and do play with guys they don't particularly care for, all the time, throughout the league.

This is not just Player A is loud asshole so Player B can't stand him situation like you are implying.

 

[JaegerDice]

If you think your everyday job is similar to being a pro athlete and your office life is similar to a locker room, you are romanticizing your life. I have close friends who have been drafted and have been in NHL lockers as a player and they say working a 9 to 5 is nothing like being an pro-athlete. JD I know you are not this foolish.

How'd they do both? Players working their way up the minors to the point they are drafted don't work 9-5s. Are they still in the league?

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Which is more destructive to locker room

Player A = A bit of a douche who has unlikeable GF who doesn't get along with wives/gf's of players
Player B = Who slept with teammates wife and destroyed a marriage
Player C = Brutally beats his wife and then self deports to avoid jail only to return
Player D = Gets a huge contract and plays like #### since signing it and helps cripple franchise going forward from competing

A lot of fake outrage/hot takes about player A but not so much for other 3 types which are far more destructive to team

And yes sadly the media/fans have been far more open to player C on team then player A over last week

 

[BK]

How'd they do both? Are they still in the league?

Clearly they couldn't cut it as NHL players and decided to retire after 2-3 years of minor pro hockey. Some got a few games in the show but nothing substantial.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Which is more destructive to locker room

Player A = A bit of a *****e who has unlikeable GF who doesn't get along with wives/gf's of players
Player B = Who slept with teammates wife and destroyed a marriage
Player C = Brutally beats his wife and then self deports to avoid jail only to return
Player D = Gets a huge contract and plays like #### since signing it and helps cripple franchise going forward from competing

A lot of fake outrage/hot takes about player A but not so much for other 3 types which are far more destructive to team

If you can cite somebody who slept with a teammate's wife that wasn't met with scorn and had locker room changes I'll be impressed.

 

[pvr]

If NHL locker rooms can survive players ****ing teammates wives and destroying families an NHL locker room will survive the Hoffman's (Well future Hoffman's as they are only engaged)

IF Hoffman's fiancé really did all of these things, and Hoffman doesn't subsequently dump her, then Hoffman's character and morals are equally terrible, and I'd want nothing to do with him on the Hawks.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Which is more destructive to locker room

Player A = A bit of a *****e who has unlikeable GF who doesn't get along with wives/gf's of players
Player B = Who slept with teammates wife and destroyed a marriage
Player C = Brutally beats his wife and then self deports to avoid jail only to return
Player D = Gets a huge contract and plays like #### since signing it and helps cripple franchise going forward from competing

A lot of fake outrage/hot takes about player A but not so much for other 3 types which are far more destructive to team

And yes sadly the media/fans have been far more open to player C on team then player A over last week

A, B , and C >>>>>>>>>>>>>>D

 

[ChiHawks10]

If NHL locker rooms can survive players ****ing teammates wives and destroying families an NHL locker room will survive the Hoffman's (Well future Hoffman's as they are only engaged)

I'm assuming you're talking about Keith and Sharp. And I can tell you with 100% certainty that it never happened. That it was all a bunch of bullshit.

 

[ClydeLee]

Which is more destructive to locker room

Player A = A bit of a *****e who has unlikeable GF who doesn't get along with wives/gf's of players
Player B = Who slept with teammates wife and destroyed a marriage
Player C = Brutally beats his wife and then self deports to avoid jail only to return
Player D = Gets a huge contract and plays like #### since signing it and helps cripple franchise going forward from competing

A lot of fake outrage/hot takes about player A but not so much for other 3 types which are far more destructive to team

And yes sadly the media/fans have been far more open to player C on team then player A over last week

What and where are you not seeing outrage upon Voynov because it's prevelent here and in every single fan base against a team signing him. The rage of that died down because there's nothing ongoing currently about it other than the talk of his agnet wanting to come over the the league and actual legality of it need to settle it out anywy.

And B is the nonsense thing every unknown thought up rumor of players jumps too becasue people love lazy rumors. I'm sure the great Kim Johansson sleeping around got all the traction back then.