King'sPawn
Enjoy the chaos
- Jul 1, 2003
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True. We saw it with Akim Aliu who reportedly had an "attitude problem" as he was rising in the professional ranks, only to have it turn out he was subjected to a racist asshole of a coach.I was aware of the outrageous (but amusing) Kaliyev birther conspiracy "theory" and I had heard the "doesn't play defense/skate hard/win board battles/pass the puck" stuff before as well but had never heard even the faintest whisper of the other subject
That's very very strange
this industry is a weird one and the number of people you can encounter at every level that will profess to know what they're talking about because they talked to someone else that professed to know what they're talking about is kind of amazing....
Only marginally related but when I see "prospect rankings" that relies on "conversations" with "scouts" or "industry insiders" I frequently find myself remembering that just because someone is a scout or insider or well placed source.... doesn't mean they have any idea what they're talking about.
Food for thought.
Biases and misinformation comes from even the closest of sources.