Lucky Lager
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I think CURRENTLY Morozov would be the best player not playing in the NHL at this point in time.
Urban legend. Repeat it long ehough as the gullible repeat it as fact.Krutov's lack of conditioning is well documented. One teammate recalls how he rigged up a Ferrid Bueller-like contraption in his room so he didn't have to get out of bed to turn off the light. He stopped at 7-11 (or whatever convienience store is in BC) before and after practice and bought junk food and Big Gulps of soda. He was also nicknamed Vladimir "Crouton".
Why didn't Krutov play for anybody afterwards then?
Wittchen: Additionally you indicated that it was your evidence that Krutov is no longer playing.
Quinn: That is what I have heard. I really don't know the status of Krutov at this time.
Wittchen: May I suggest to you that probably came from another story by Elliott Pap in which he was quoting Larionov saying Krutov had been cut by the Swiss team.
Quinn: You can suggest that but I don't know . . .
Wittchen: In fact I will suggest to you that a retraction to that was printed by Pap where he indicated that Krutov was still playing Switzerland, are you aware of that?
Quinn: No.
He did.
That was another Pat Quinn whopper. As I have said you have to quit believing what Quinn and/or Burkie claim about the affaire de Krutov as it simply is not true.
Quinn tried to claim that Krutov did not play after leaving Vancouver. At the arbitration he had to admit he was wrong when challenged. The Canucks had fed that line to a pet reporter, Elliot Pap, who was called on it by Krutov's legal counsel and had to print a retraction.
That portion of the transcript was published in the Vancouver Province. Does the term "weasel" seem fitting?
Quinn apparently was not aware of much of anything if you take his testimony at face value - the arbitrator did not and found Quinn's explanations to "lack credibility" - polite judicial language for lying through your teeth. Hence the the award against the Canucks.
However given Quinn's past history and multiple ethical lapses, (e.g. Quinngate) that came back to haunt him during the arbitration when he stupidly put his own character into issue (aided and abetted by that able litigator and fellow law grad, Brian Burke), why would that be any great surprise?
Facts have an inconvenient way of getting in the way of the Canucks' story line it seems.
The Canucks tried to run the lack of conditioning at two arbitrations and lost both times when put to the proof. You have to quit believing the media as the Canucks were feeding stories in an attempt to weasel out of the contracts - unsuccessfully.While I don't doubt Quinn is a bit of a suspicious character I've been reading that during the season fans and players made comments about his fitness level. It's been noted he showed up out of shape and never recovered.
I don't really see how Quinn's testimony discredits the story about Krutov being out of shape.
I can't find anything on Krutov playing in a Swiss league (definately not the Swiss-A Div.) after leaving the Canucks. I'm not doubting the testimony, just trying to find out who he played for.
After the 1994 playoffs, Salcer, Bure, Quinn and then-Canucks owner Arthur Griffiths got together and denied that Bure had threatened to withdraw his services if he wasn't rewarded with his present contract
Well first off, the sausage portion of a North American hotdog was readily availble in abudance throughout the Soviet Union; one could even find a traditional sausage-in-a-bun variation that somewhat resembled a true 7/11 hotdog (although these were never a popular food and therefore weren't sold all over the place). Secondly, although hotdogs are generally disgusting and unhealthy no matter the country where they are manufactured (I prefer Russian hotdogs personally, but would generally avoid eating a hotdog in either hemisphere)... I would certainly take a hotdog over a bowl of borscht. Not that Krutov really had to eat it, but borscht is absolutely vile stuff as far as I'm concerned.