Biggest jerks in the NHL

[Crosby2010]

I think unless it's a specific fan event, players dont owe you their time or attention. So if you get snubbed for an autograph or something then it doesn't necessarily make the player a jerk.

Lots of posts in here about waiting at practice or the like for players and them not giving you a sig...don't you have any sense of perspective? Maybe the player doesn't want to be singing autographs all the time. If it's for your child then...what the hell are you doing assuming you'll get one just because you're at practice or waiting after hours when the game is over in hopes the players walk by?

I once saw PK Subban across the street while I was at work. I dropped everything I was doing and ran across the street. He was on the phone with his dad (it was Father's Day), I said "Hey PK! Sorry man really quick just wanted to shake your hand and say you're one of my favorite players". He had a really big sigh and said "Sorry DAD one second". He was kind of a jerk about it but I also was invading his space and private time. I wish the interaction went better of course but maybe the guy has a hundred of these types of interactions a month and was just fed up with it that day? I don't know. I wouldn't say he was a jerk for it, just that I wish it was a cooler meeting.

The next year I went to "Keith Relief" in Chicago and there were a bunch of Hawks there. Said hi to a few of them and shook their hands. It was pretty cool. But that was also a thing that they agreed to go to specifically to be interacting with fans. We're not entitled to anything and I think fans forget that

That's fair. I am not an autograph hound by any stretch of the imagination. I think it was Walt Disney who once said he never understood the fawning people had over celebrities. We see these people on TV, but they are just people. And to be fair I never would bother someone at a restaurant eating dinner or anything. Maybe as I am walking by then say "Hello Connor" with a nod, but that's it. I do think people feel entitled. Some players historically did well with this sort of thing. But as fans we've gotten a little too accustomed to assuming they owe us. Bobby Hull famously would make the bus wait before he signed every autograph for everyone waiting. I met him three times and from what I saw it was true, he always had a line up of people he signed for. Cheerfully as well. But that isn't everyone's cup of tea. PK probably dreaded seeing a fan run up to him from across the street.

But that video of Connor being harassed by so-called fans last year irked me. He was just trying to put something in his trunk. He doesn't know these guys, they were aggressive and for all he knows they could stab him. I never get the whole crowding thing with celebrities. What does that accomplish?

On a lighter note, if you want to see something funny, well sort of, then watch a video of Tom Hanks and his wife coming out of a restaurant and getting mobbed by fans and then his wife getting bumped and Tom Hanks then flips out at the crowd and acts in a way that I guarantee you never thought Tom Hanks would act. But he was justified I thought. (A funny part of the video is that there is this poor young guy who gets accused of bumping Hanks' wife but it wasn't him and he stands there shocked, haha)

 

[objectiveposter]

Bobby Orr. Back in the 90s there was a PGA event in Vancouver...during the celebrity game he would only sign autographs for the white kids....he refused to sign anything for the brown and asian kids there.

 

[PocketNines]

Lou Lamariello. Real son of a bitch to deal with even in the glory days. More or less ran Scott Niedermayer and Zach Parise out of town because of his hardball negotiation tactics. Also, he has a very itchy trigger finger.

When he won Cups, we lived with it. But that luster is long gone. Now he's the Islanders' problem, and for their sake hopefully not for long.

And I know the OP said "keep it to hockey" but I'm still including Mikey McLeod because he did what he did during the 2018 WJC.

Definitely. Stole 3 Cups from us stealing Stevens, the whole thing was a corrupt punishment for the Blues who were offer sheeting people. Wherever he has been, Toronto, Isles, I root for his personal failure and have for over three decades.

 

[JonathnTaylorTavares]

I dont know if the "sorry I only have Canadien money" is already a running joke, but Scott Neidermeyer said this to me when I was a valet at a hotel. I never forgave him for that