As I said before the draft that year the DEL is not a good yard stick for how well or how quickly a players game will translate to the NHL and that the ‘he plays with men’ mantra was being weighted too heavily. As I said then, it is not that he won’t be a very good player just that playing in the DEL didn’t make him ready to go.you can see the talent but he's just so outclassed in this league, he gets bullied then tries to fight back but can't
What Durzi said after his debut, interesting quote about Lemieux considering what was said about him.
"Durzi then reflected on the hours leading up to his debut. The Mississauga native received a plethora of support from his new teammates, including one who has had an enormous impact on the ice in recent weeks.
“Yeah, the team was really good about it,” Durzi noted. “Throughout the day, [Brendan] Lemieux actually sat down with me before the game, too, and just said a couple of nice words, which I thought was– really calmed me down a little bit.
Next 3 games:
Ducks
Flames
@Oilers
I think these next 3 games we really find out what the Kings are. We seen them play well, we've seen them play bad.
The recent losses have left them little room for error.
this hand, wait this hand, uhhh yeah you see right there on the wrong hand?
If he was bitten, even if there was only one tooth that broke the skin a substantial bite mark would be visible. I’d imagine the referees could see that and I would certainly have expected someone to have photographed the injury as evidence. The marks won’t have disappeared in a few minutes.I still can't see where the supposed bite was. All I see is BK smashing his hand/fist into his face shield. The cut he showed to everyone look like it was from that, not a lacerated bite. Bites have a radius, and are not straight. I know, I have been bitten twice.
you can see the talent but he's just so outclassed in this league, he gets bullied then tries to fight back but can't
How many times are we going to wear these crappy uniforms?
On the match penalty assessed to Lemieux
I haven’t talked to him (Lemieux) about it yet. When the referee explained it to me it made sense, I didn’t see it, at least on the video we had on the bench and there’s many different angles but the way the referee explained it, it adds up. First of all it’s wrong, if it did happen. We don’t want it to happen. And two, it’s not a good situation to put the team in and not only for tonight, but moving forward. Brendan Lemieux has become a really valuable player to our team. I think he knows that, we all believe it and we need him in the lineup. We need him playing every night, we need him playing every minute that he gets offensively, defensively, physically, emotionally, and if we happen to lose him for any period of time, we’ll miss him and he has to understand how important he’s become.
full quote and oh my god hahaha what a baby
Brady single-handedly validating Lemieux's effectiveness
But Canada so instead of two scumbags coming together everyone is valorizing Brady as if he was a hero here
It was unnecessary bravado. One push and a f*** off would of sufficed. Lizotte was mostly trying to avoid contact.What's funny to me about this whole thing and people liking what Brady says here, is that this whole thing transpired because Brady was upset at Lizotte for "snowing" Gustavsson and decided to pick on the smallest player on the team. Brady ain't a saint in all of this. Again not saying that what Lemieux did was justified or doesn't deserve the suspension, but I just find it funny seeing Brady calling Lemieux a baby when this whole thing started because of a minor snow shower. Talk about growing up, especially from the captain
His fingers were not bitten it was the side of his hand, and he was saying he was bitten on both hands.It seems like a normal reaction to having someone putting their fingers in your mouth.
His fingers were not bitten it was the side of his hand, and he was saying he was bitten on both hands.