Winnipeg newspaper attempts a hit piece on Jordan Binnington ahead of Game 1, resurfacing old Tweets

[Golden Puppers]

Controversial tweets from Blues goaltender come to light

Pretty disgusting. This was targeted and a hit piece on Binnington. Hope it doesn't cause him to lose focus heading into the Whiteout.

And OT, how in 2019, isn't every major athlete's social media scrubbed?

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[tmurfin]

WinnipegFREEpress

Isn't free.

Well f***.

Also f*** that guy, apparently it was a California reporter who dug them up. I never seen them but still, the guys playing hockey not running for office. Ridiculous

 

[serp]

Thats really really low. Guess if you have nothing else you go through someones old Tweets. Its just low.

 

[Kelly]

What did he say?

 

[CupInSIX]

What did he say?

He was tweeting about Paquettes. Misunderstanding is all.

 

[Albatros]

Xenophobic stuff about burkas and immigrant taxi drivers, might be a hit piece but Binnington created the opportunity all by himself. Not a good look.

 

[koth]

I'm fine with this sort of thing coming to light. People need to learn from it. Now he was only 19 when he posted those tweets, so I don't think he's a terrible human being for it, but it does show that some education needs to be had.

 

[Golden Puppers]

What did he say?

 

[Kcb12345]

Based on his personality it's not that surprising he has some "controversy" behind him from when he was a teen but this honestly such a pathetic thing to do. Imagine digging through 6 year old tweets just to try and get a guy off his game or something lmao

Also I expected the tweets to be MUCH worse than they actually were.

 

[Turin]

Xenophobic stuff about burkas and immigrant taxi drivers, might be a hit piece but Binnington created the opportunity all by himself. Not a good look.

None of those things are xenophobic. Insensitive yes, but not everything that is insensitive is somehow a pathology.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Pathetic media trying to **** with a professional athlete that their city's team is facing. What a joke. This is why so many people hate the media nowadays.

 

[Kreegz2]

There's nothing wrong with what he tweeted. It's completely possible to criticize other cultures without being "-phobic" of them. Ridiculous.

 

[Prediculous]

I see this backfiring for Peg lol.

 

[Turin]

I'm fine with this sort of thing coming to light. People need to learn from it. Now he was only 19 when he posted those tweets, so I don't think he's a terrible human being for it, but it does show that some education needs to be had.

Somebody isn’t sensitive about something so he needs “education”. Ok creepy authoritarian.

 

[CupInSIX]

Based on his personality it's not that surprising he has some "controversy" behind him from when he was a teen but this honestly such a pathetic thing to do. Imagine digging through 6 year old tweets just to try and get a guy off his game or something lmao

And this is why I'm just about done with following hockey closely.

 

[HF007]

You are responsible for your actions, super bad timing for him

 

[Kcoyote3]

While just a little obtuse I expected much worse from those tweets. But this is the Canadian media so I’m sure those are horrific by their standards

 

[belair]

There's that little voice we trained to shut up in our early twenties.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

Imagine being so scared of an opposing player, you publish a hit piece on him the day before the series starts.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Where's the Winnipeg news article about this one? Could it have to do with the fact that they're playing Binnington and the Blues in round 1?

Stuff like this just makes me sick.

 

[Kestrel]

Somebody isn’t sensitive about something so he needs “education”. Ok creepy authoritarian.

That's generally what not being adequately sensitive means... creepy enabler

 

[Turin]

Where's the Winnipeg news article about this one? Could it have to do with the fact that they're playing Binnington and the Blues in round 1?

Stuff like this just makes me sick.

Young adults.. are being young adults on the internet! Let’s be fat resentful losers and try to hurt them even though we personally aren’t offended to demonstrate how moral we are even though I have no consistent moral framework.

 

[Kcb12345]

Where's the Winnipeg news article about this one? Could it have to do with the fact that they're playing Binnington and the Blues in round 1?

Stuff like this just makes me sick.

Ah I remember being 13 too

Point is young people say dumb shit

 

[Turin]

That's generally what not being adequately sensitive means... creepy enabler

Adequately sensitive according to who? f*** me no comedy then.

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

Roslovic tweet is much worse.