Chelios runs mouth about Bettman

[Trottier]

What's with the Almighty 'I have a Webster's defense' on this board? So, he typed to make a POINT, not to make sure he passed his HF spelling bee.

Now poeple can't reaad unleess everyythingg is grammartically corekt?

But that's the beauty of the message boards, Blitz. Successful adults like us can have our spelling corrected by an unemployed fool sitting somewhere in his underwear, still collecting $10 weekly allowance from mom and dad.

Equality of the keyboard, if nothing else.

Got to love it!

 

[Gee Wally]

Anyone else find this funny? It's "pot meet kettle" or "pot calling the kettle black" not "kettle meet black." I only point this out because you're critiquing someone for getting something wrong.

not as funny as Chelios ticked at Bettman for making him ( players ) look bad.


pssssst...Chris...you're doing okay on your own.

 

[Dr Love]

not as funny as Chelios ticked at Bettman for making him ( players ) look bad.


pssssst...Chris...you're doing okay on your own.

Agreed. Chelios needs to wake the hell up. Want to get angry at Bettman? Fine, he's got the right to do so. But he better have worse words for Goodenow, who completely failed to get the job done. And the more of these type of sound bites that come out, the worse it's going to get for the players.

 

[CalgaryThrasher]

Retire you old son of a b****

 

[ranold26]

Anyone else find this funny? It's "pot meet kettle" or "pot calling the kettle black" not "kettle meet black." I only point this out because you're critiquing someone for getting something wrong.

I guess the sarcasm detector, with my obvious error and posting of the spinner hat, didn't go off.

 

[Trottier]

I see the point you are trying to make, but I have to disagree. When he was younger he was an all-star. Right now, at 43, he doesn't make 20 teams top 6 if his name isn't Chelios. Watching him play a speedy team like the Flames in last years play-offs really exposed him........ until the unstoppable force known as Oleg Saprykin layed him out and injured him for the series. I can't believe he is actually thinking of playing again when the season starts up. He's hanging on way too long, like Jerry Rice.

ryz - I will defer to your opinion on Chelios, and I over-reacted to make a point myself. The suggestion that the first poster made regarding Chelios not earning his career pay, nor having a good season in a decade was absurd.

And besides, it had nothing to do with the actual comments made by Chelios.

 

[FlyersFan10*]

Why is it that people only post a portion of what Chelios said? It's convenient how people only post the part about the salary cap, but they didn't post the other paragraph: "It's all about the lies and separating the players from the league and making us look bad because we have to defend ourselves. And that alone should be just cause for him to get the gas after this is all done."

Convenient that people forgot to post that. And I think it's a fair assessment that Chelios said.

 

[Crazy Joe Davola]

Chelio WILL be in Turin on '06.

But not as a hockey player, as a bobsledder!

 

[Jacob]

Chelio WILL be in Turin on '06.

But not as a hockey player, as a bobsledder!

Chi-ca-go we have a bobsled team!

 

[Dr Love]

Chi-ca-go we have a bobsled team!

Team? All you need is DITKA!

 

[Face Wash]

"And if he's patting himself on the back for getting a cap, every sport's got a cap. I mean, big deal, he's the last one to get it and he's run our league into the ground."

I wasn't aware baseball had a salary cap... This is definitely news to me (I bet it's news to Donald Fehr and George Steinbrenner too).

At least he didn't threaten Bettmann with physical harm this time... See, Chris is moving up in the world. He's gone from Neanderthal to CroMagnon...Congrats dude!!

 

[Sanman19]

^THAT made me L O L

 

[dolfanar]

I wasn't aware baseball had a salary cap... This is definitely news to me (I bet it's news to Donald Fehr and George Steinbrenner too).

At least he didn't threaten Bettmann with physical harm this time... See, Chris is moving up in the world. He's gone from Neanderthal to CroMagnon...Congrats dude!!

Maybe by the time he's 50 he will have finally left the cave and moved on to a nice modern hut...

 

[MarkZackKarl]

At this point it should be obvious to most people that Chelios isn't the sharpest knive in the drawer, I mean some of those comments were downright idiotic.

You're not the one to talk.

 

[Timmy]

You're not the one to talk.

How's that 2004 Senators cup run going?

 

[shadoz19]

Sour grapes from a dinosaur who made way more money in this league then he ever should have.

Hey Chris, retire already. You suck now and have for a few years. Id rather Bettman stick around then some washed up has been who hasnt had a good year in a decade and was way overpaid the whole time.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=130194

Chelios may run his mouth like a moron, but come on get the facts straight. He has been a very good player in the last 10 years.

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

Hopefully someone's spraying some no-stick aerosol on the bobsled track as we speak..

 

[senate]

This is classic though:

"And if he's patting himself on the back for getting a cap, every sport's got a cap. I mean, big deal, he's the last one to get it and he's run our league into the ground."

Baseball doesn't.

 

[bcrt2000]

How's that 2004 Senators cup run going?

how does a poster's favourite team relate with anything in this topic?

 

[Timmy]

how does a poster's favourite team relate with anything in this topic?

Sorry, I responded to a personal attack on another poster. The fact that Chelios says "Every league has a cap, so what's the big deal," is stupid on so many levels that posters and hockey fans have a right to make fun of the statement.

To then be derided and to be called stupid oneself seems a little unfair to me, especially in light of past antics by Mr. Chelios at various points in an otherwise illustrious, HOF career.

But what I really want to know is, what the Hell does that 04 Sens Cup avatar mean? It drives me nuts every time I see it.

 

[craig1]

At least he didn't threaten Bettmann with physical harm this time... See, Chris is moving up in the world. He's gone from Neanderthal to CroMagnon...Congrats dude!!

Not so fast:

"And that alone should be just cause for him to get the gas after this is all done."

To me, the suggestion that he be gassed sounds very much like a threat.

 

[CarlRacki]

Not so fast:

"And that alone should be just cause for him to get the gas after this is all done."

To me, the suggestion that he be gassed sounds very much like a threat.

Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but in my mind it's way out of line for Chelios to suggest Gary Bettman - a person of Jewish descent - be gassed. I'm not sure Chelios has the brain cells it would take to make the historical connections and realize how inappropriate those words are. My guess is it was unintentional. Still, one needs to choose words far more wisely.
Then again, maybe Chelios knows exactly what he's saying. He's always carried himself with such class and dignity.

 

[Crazy_Ike]

Boy if the media picks up on that Chelios is suggesting a Jewish person get "gassed"...

But, in all honesty, I'm pretty sure the bonehead was just suggesting he be fired. Even Chelios, one of the dumbest players in the league, couldn't be *that* stupid...


...could he?

 

[kingsfan]

Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but in my mind it's way out of line for Chelios to suggest Gary Bettman - a person of Jewish descent - be gassed. I'm not sure Chelios has the brain cells it would take to make the historical connections and realize how inappropriate those words are. My guess is it was unintentional. Still, one needs to choose words far more wisely.
Then again, maybe Chelios knows exactly what he's saying. He's always carried himself with such class and dignity.

I didn't know Bettman was Jewish. And when Chelios said 'gassed', that's no where near the first thing that popped into my mind. I'd imagine that that's the case for most people.

 

[txomisc]

Boy if the media picks up on that Chelios is suggesting a Jewish person get "gassed"...

But, in all honesty, I'm pretty sure the bonehead was just suggesting he be fired. Even Chelios, one of the dumbest players in the league, couldn't be *that* stupid...


...could he?

yeah i figured it was just a figure of speach to mean fired