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What happened to him? Dude was a beast in the shootout?
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I've got a Rob Schremp story.
So it's the 2010-2011 season, the Kings are in the process of turning from a basement dweller into a 2-time Stanley Cup champion, and thus Kings tickets are cheap so I buy some for me and my buddies when the Isles come to the Staples Center.
Anyway, I show up early to the game because I want to see the pre-skate warmups and give my Isles some love, you know? I see a group of honestly only 5-6 guys in Isles sweaters hanging out down by the ice where they're warming up, majority of the arena is watching their hometown Kings warm up obviously.
So anyway the players start throwing a couple of pucks to us, Tavares was still our shiny new toy at that point so we're all focused on him. Then Schremp grabs a puck and starts doing all those crazy stick tricks with it, keeping it in the air and catching it on the blade of his stick. You know the type. Clearly just showing off for the approximately 7 Islander fans hanging out.
The response from the fans? Groans. Audible groans. Schremp realizes this, stops messing with the puck and skates away. I felt bad for him, but that pretty much sums up his NHL career: eventually the fans will grow sick and tired of all the flash and none of the results.
What happened to him? Dude was a beast in the shootout?
In a nutshell: bad attitude
His skating was atrocious. I believe he has talent, but it seemed to be the "put up crazy points everywhere but the NHL" story that we see a lot.
I've got a Rob Schremp story.
So it's the 2010-2011 season, the Kings are in the process of turning from a basement dweller into a 2-time Stanley Cup champion, and thus Kings tickets are cheap so I buy some for me and my buddies when the Isles come to the Staples Center.
Anyway, I show up early to the game because I want to see the pre-skate warmups and give my Isles some love, you know? I see a group of honestly only 5-6 guys in Isles sweaters hanging out down by the ice where they're warming up, majority of the arena is watching their hometown Kings warm up obviously.
So anyway the players start throwing a couple of pucks to us, Tavares was still our shiny new toy at that point so we're all focused on him. Then Schremp grabs a puck and starts doing all those crazy stick tricks with it, keeping it in the air and catching it on the blade of his stick. You know the type. Clearly just showing off for the approximately 7 Islander fans hanging out.
The response from the fans? Groans. Audible groans. Schremp realizes this, stops messing with the puck and skates away. I felt bad for him, but that pretty much sums up his NHL career: eventually the fans will grow sick and tired of all the flash and none of the results.
What happened to him? Dude was a beast in the shootout?