Sportsnet: Phaneuf: I was too emotional to talk to the media
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How smart are you to have two of the best players in hockey, 2 good wingers, 3 good dmen and a decent goaltender and have even the **** teams want to face you in the playoffs?
jimmycarter
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it's weird to feel bad for a guy that gets 4 months off in the summer. has made millions and is gonna get paid millions more with job security for the next 7 years... and has a hot wife.
but i feel bad for dion.
but i feel bad for dion.
FosterHewitt
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Some are too soft on him and even more fans are too hard on him. In a way I almost do feel sorry for him because he peaked very early in his career. He was one of the rare ones that peaked too early and now we see what he is, a good but never great player.
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dubey
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Or perhaps some of us don't want to waste time on speculation based on how well we can read lips?
This is it in a nutshell. When I watch a guy like Suter, or Doughty, they control the game. Obviously they are better dmen, but the level of play they consistently bring is what you expect from a #1 guy. Phaneuf, even when he was younger was never that good. Now, the play comes to him and his lack of good decision making is fairly evident. It's like between his first 3 years and his last 3 years there was no learning going on, and it's like people who watch him still believe he's even as good as he was then. It's night and day for me. If he played even a modicum the way he used to no one is even bringing him up in these posts because while there are still mistakes being made, he's dragging this team forward, and not down.
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There have been a few times where the penguins have been without a lot of those pieces you mentioned and the team kept humming along. He also handled goaltending controversies better then Vancouver did. He deserves a little credit.
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He deserves credit for doing enough with that team to keep his job I suppose. Can you imagine any other business being run that, after you fire an employee for sucking at their job, you reach into a hat full of other employees who've also been fired for sucking and hire them? Think about that for a minute. We fired Wilson for sucking. We reached into a hat and hired another coach that was fired for sucking. He came here and initially sucked. They made the playoffs in a shortened season and he got a 3 year extension, and now he sucks even worse than the other guy who sucked. We got rid of a player who sucked and hired another player who sucked. There's a pattern of suckness that extends 40 years and continues to this day.
I reached for a lot of that
johnny_rudeboy
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He have really stepped up lately being -9 during our losing streak. And since his "break down" when he promised to bounce back seeing as his play of late was uncharacteristic of him, he have been -5 in 2 games, and directly responsible for a lot of those goals against. Gunnarsson who used to be paired with him is for comparison -1 during this stretch and as far as I can recall have not made any real blunders.
Dion and Phil are suppose to be leaders on the team...you don't need to read lips to realize they are not good teammates...
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