Post-Game Talk: Draisatl vs. Matheson. Why are you so pissy?

[oilers'72]

and the Journal puts out a hack piece to defend their boy and "train" McDrai.

Yeah, I just read the piece by Staples and listened to the clip from Ferraro. The problem isn't that Connor and Drai are dodging questions but that the reporters are looking for sound bites and not trying to get to know the players and the team. They treat the Oilers as adversaries rather than average people.

 

[Wretched Oil]

Yeah, I just read the piece by Staples and listened to the clip from Ferraro. The problem isn't that Connor and Drai are dodging questions but that the reporters are looking for sound bites and not trying to get to know the players and the team. They treat the Oilers as adversaries rather than average people.

Professional trolls

 

[bellagiobob]

Yeah, I just read the piece by Staples and listened to the clip from Ferraro. The problem isn't that Connor and Drai are dodging questions but that the reporters are looking for sound bites and not trying to get to know the players and the team. They treat the Oilers as adversaries rather than average people.

Part of the issue is changing from dressing room interviews to these press conference style Q and A’s. No chance to just chat with the player afterwards anymore, and gain their trust, and smooth over any issues. Hopefully they can get back to that at some point.

 

[Del Preston]

Matheson is getting completely trashed on social media about Laraque's story. It's been on Twitter for a few days and has made it's way over to reddit on the Oilers and hockey subreddits.

If you are human garbage and do shitty things, lay low instead of bringing attention to yourself.

 

[AM]

Georges Laraques job was to punch people in the face. He proceeded to punch a guy in the face (remember, that what he's paid to do) because he was told that that guy (who is trying to get paid to punch people in the face, potentially lowering Laraques face punching value) was talking about him.

I'm uncertain what high and mighty tangent you're going on, but I don't think you're communicating it the way you think you are.

Must be a different language.

 

[Missing smitty]

Must be a different language.

Must be, because you're clearly trying to say Laraques shouldn't have punched the guy in the face, just newscasts he thought someone was talking about him.

 

[Missing smitty]

Matheson is getting completely trashed on social media about Laraque's story. It's been on Twitter for a few days and has made it's way over to reddit on the Oilers and hockey subreddits.

If you are human garbage and do shitty things, lay low instead of bringing attention to yourself.

But what about his feelings!!!! He was just doing his job, people should lay off him, it's tough leeching off of other people.

 

[AM]

Must be, because you're clearly trying to say Laraques shouldn't have punched the guy in the face, just newscasts he thought someone was talking about him.

No, I’m saying he shouldn’t have punched him in the face because of another windbag.

 

[Stoneman89]

Part of the issue is changing from dressing room interviews to these press conference style Q and A’s. No chance to just chat with the player afterwards anymore, and gain their trust, and smooth over any issues. Hopefully they can get back to that at some point.

Or it would give Drai a chance to give the old fart a well deserved Nugey.

 

[Missing smitty]

No, I’m saying he shouldn’t have punched him in the face because of another windbag.

So tough guy fights wannabe tough guy because old man says he talked some shit. Do you really think he didn't talk to him on the ice before they scrapped?

This isn't an office setting, it's a sport that actively pushed face punching for a long time.

 

[BlackDogg]

Matheson with two points
tonight so far.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Apparently after the presser yesterday Matheson apologized to Koskinen about his line of questioning earlier this year.

Yeah, I tweeted about that interaction a couple of days ago. Quite a favorable response to my tweet (although my grammar sucks) answering to one media guy defending Jim M.

Not patting myself on the back but the way he treated Kostco in that presser was disgraceful and seemed to fly under the radar. Many felt the same way.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Yeah, I tweeted about that interaction a couple of days ago. Quite a favorable response to my tweet (although my grammar sucks) answering to one media guy defending Jim M. View attachment 500132
Not patting myself on the back but the way he treated Kostco in that presser was disgraceful and seemed to fly under the radar. Many felt the same way.
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That's a female I believe.

Rod Phillips daughter.

 

[ujju2]

...and the worst take award goes to.

Does anyone really even listen to Olbermann anymore? He's wrong on damn near everything...

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

 

[oilers'72]

That's a female I believe.

Rod Phillips daughter.

I wonder what Rod thinks of this.

BTW, I didn't know he's the uncle of former Sens' Chris Phillips.

 

[jabubenice]

Anyone not on team Draisaitl isn’t an Oilers fan

Im an avs fan and i still say f*** matheson

 

[AM]

So tough guy fights wannabe tough guy because old man says he talked some shit. Do you really think he didn't talk to him on the ice before they scrapped?

This isn't an office setting, it's a sport that actively pushed face punching for a long time.

So you are saying they have no point at all in this discussion?

 

[Jim]

Teams are crazy for subjecting their players to this. Their job is to play hockey. The reporters cover the game. Interviews add nothing.

If anything, press interviews should be limited to once a month.

 

[K1984]

Teams are crazy for subjecting their players to this. Their job is to play hockey. The reporters cover the game. Interviews add nothing.

If anything, press interviews should be limited to once a month.

Should be the coach daily and the players post game only IMO.

The daily player pressers are where the problems start. There isn't anything to talk about other than narrative building for the morons to write their columns.

 

[McFlash97]

The problem isn't Mattheson calling Draisaitl pissy, it's more about setting Draisailt up to act pissy, and to throw snowflakes at management rather then to ask them the hard questions.

 

[AM]

So tough guy fights wannabe tough guy because old man says he talked some shit. Do you really think he didn't talk to him on the ice before they scrapped?

This isn't an office setting, it's a sport that actively pushed face punching for a long time.

So reporters are calling the fights?

 

[LaGu]

Teams are crazy for subjecting their players to this. Their job is to play hockey. The reporters cover the game. Interviews add nothing.

If anything, press interviews should be limited to once a month.

I mean I agree on the essence of this, but athletes are like royalty these days. There is no chance a team would or could keep them away from the media.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Like, Rishaug also said that Draisaitl used to be more dismissive but got better this year until the losing streak...because he worked on it.

Doesn't he realize that if players have to work on not hating you, that maybe you are doing something wrong?

Some of it is just flat out dislike. I used to see the same thing on this board. People dislking Drai for one reason or another. Too quiet, Doesn't smile enough, reserved, too serious.

In a similar vein Toews used to the least popular star in Chicago. "Too serious, doesn't crack up enough" jebus, I take a serious attitude every time.

Drai is different, not from here, in a lot of ways those kinds of differences of being foreign makes somebody an odd interview, or unlike the rest etc. But for people to dislike on the basis of that, I've always felt is pretty silly, myopic.

For the media to openly talk among themselves about Draisaitl, and actually disclose that they do that is confirmation of triangulation, it is blatantly unprofessional. In the media vs star relationship the pressers are subservient. So that they are in effect dissing on higher ups in the food chain. But a guy like Matheson figures he's more important and prestiged than Draisaitl. He really thinks that. So I wonder who should be laughing and gossiping and pointing fingers about a guy that keeps saying "I'm in the HHOF" everybody has read Mathesons drivel, it has nothing to do with his writing, or him.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Some of it is just flat out dislike. I used to see the same thing on this board. People dislking Drai for one reason or another. Too quiet, Doesn't smile enough, reserved, too serious.

In a similar vein Toews used to the least popular star in Chicago. "Too serious, doesn't crack up enough" jebus, I take a serious attitude every time.

Drai is different, not from here, in a lot of ways those kinds of differences of being foreign makes somebody an odd interview, or unlike the rest etc. But for people to dislike on the basis of that, I've always felt is pretty silly, myopic.

For the media to openly talk among themselves about Draisaitl, and actually disclose that they do that is confirmation of triangulation, it is blatantly unprofessional. In the media vs star relationship the pressers are subservient. So that they are in effect dissing on higher ups in the food chain. But a guy like Matheson figures he's more important and prestiged than Draisaitl. He really thinks that. So I wonder who should be laughing and gossiping and pointing fingers about a guy that keeps saying "I'm in the HHOF" everybody has read Mathesons drivel, it has nothing to do with his writing, or him.

Its funny because McDavid is even more serious and shit.
But McDavid is from here I guess. He is a good old Canadian boy.
The way Canadian media treats Euro players so differently has always rubbed me the wrong way.