Dom Luszczyszyn apologizes after agreeing to appear on podcast with Tony DeAngelo

[Romang67]

Luszczyszyn, in addition to having an incrediblh tedious name to type out, always comes off as very immature in print and otherwise. DeAngelo seems like an asshole in general but Luszczyszyn comes out of this dunking looking worse. I did laugh at him pretending that a marginal hockey writer appearing on a marginal hockey player's podcast generated anything that can be described as "all the backlash".

Every single person on Twitter is, in their view, the main character to all their followers. Recommendation systems in social media exacerbates this. It's not by accident, but it does result in things like this.

 

[Son of Nogatco]

Anytime someone uses the word "problematic" I just assume they are a giant p***y

That’s by design

Phrases like “microaggressions” and “Me Too” are valuable to the status quo because they have the inevitable effect of belittling the classes of people they are meant to empower

 

[Martin Skoula]

This is the most significant news of the year, possibly the decade

 

[God]

i would've liked to see a podcast like this happen with dom and a more established podcast like maybe spittin chiclets or whatever. i don't really think TDA is a great person to talk with, though the type of hockey player (not person) he represents is good to have as a sounding board for the benefits and flaws of analytics.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Both guys deserve each other

 

[BonMorrison]

Perhaps Tony D is based, perhaps @EdJovanovski was right all along.

 

[sabremike]

Backstory: Dom and TDA got into a back-and-forth about analytics versus the eye test. Dom was invited to join TDA on a podcast to debate face to face. Dom, high on the fumes of dunking on someone he hates, accepted the invitation. Then he found out that if you meet with someone publicly to humiliate them, then you aren’t cancelling them enough. So he walked back his attempt to embarrass a cancelled person by publicly re-cancelling him and refusing to even be physically present with him in the name of fighting intolerance (making a bunch of Twitter posts and a press release to dunk on him is still ok though).

Short version: two awful people being awful on the internet and ironically not seeing their similarities

 

[SoundAndFury]

Surely not the guy who’s actively in anger management therapy

People are expected to know who goes to what therapy on these boards these days? I still have no idea which one you are talking about.

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

I'm totally lost on the dunking on DeAngelo thing? So I looked at his history, he said something very inappropriate stuff when he was 17 or 18? Is this something that deserves a lifetime ban?

And then he punched Georgiev after playing poorly and saying something to him? Avs fans would probably buy out his jersey if that happened today

And without going there, he supports a political party 70%? of NHLers do but is vocal about it? Is there more I'm missing? Honeslty everything negative I'm reading is just mentioning what he said as a 17 year old or reddit calling him scum for supporting Trump, is there more to this?

95%+**

 

[Gil Gunderson]

I just found out that's his real name.

 

[Romang67]

i would've liked to see a podcast like this happen with dom and a more established podcast like maybe spittin chiclets or whatever. i don't really think TDA is a great person to talk with, though the type of hockey player (not person) he represents is good to have as a sounding board for the benefits and flaws of analytics.

I would definitely like to hear a discussion between a non-insufferable analytics person and a player who's flawed but doesn't seem like a complete idiot. Unfortunately this was not that duo.

DeAngelo's counting numbers were generally good, and he represented a type of player that the analytics people had been pushing for a while, and despite that he was shuffled from team to team, and analytics people didn't like him.

It's a bit different from something like Spittin' Chiclets which, AFAIK, features a facepuncher and an actual good D-man from the previous era of hockey player's, neither of which is an interesting sounding board for analytics.

 

[BonMorrison]

I just found out that's his real name.

It's actually Anthony DeAngelo.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Can't even get a good twitter beef going anymore smh

 

[JianYang]

I don't remember alot about D'Angelo other than his political beliefs and some locker room issues.

Having said that, what is this platform that Dom is giving him? Is dom supposed to be some influencer? It almost sounds like he's stroking his ego as he apologizes.

 

[Emerica]

who

 

[Machinehead]

I mean, you know who Tony is.

This isn't sorry you did it, it's sorry you got called out.

 

[NyQuil]

That’s by design

Phrases like “microaggressions” and “Me Too” are valuable to the status quo because they have the inevitable effect of belittling the classes of people they are meant to empower

I don’t know how old you are, but “problematic” has been around for a long time without seemingly any controversy.

Or are we in the business of hating on multisyllabic words because they sound too complicated?

 

[Mike C]

Social media was a mistake.

For everyone!

 

[End of Line]

 

[tarheelhockey]

I don’t know how old you are, but “problematic” has been around for a long time.

True, but it has become something of a meme recently.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I have posted WHY I have a problem with tony D.. but here is my thing. I believe in rehabilitation over retribution. Has Tony actually stepped up and admitted some of the stuff he did was shit or is he going the Mitch Miller approach and not doing anything to address what he said and did? Just curious. I am a pitch fork guy, but I will put my pitch fork away if someone admitts they have screwed up and address their issues

 

[MMC]

Half expecting Dom to now say ackshually I’ll go on now since the backlash to his “statement” has been so heavy

 

[Machinehead]

I have posted WHY I have a problem with tony D.. but here is my thing. I believe in rehabilitation over retribution. Has Tony actually stepped up and admitted some of the stuff he did was shit or is he going the Mitch Miller approach and not doing anything to address what he said and did? Just curious. I am a pitch fork guy, but I will put my pitch fork away if someone admitts they have screwed up and address their issues

A big issue he had with previous employers was starting public fights on Twitter, and here he is starting a fight on Twitter, so there's that.

 

[DackellDuck]

Dom Luszyszyn writes garbage, has no knowledge or background in statistical analysis of any kind, and his “models” are complete nonsense. Now to add to that, he’s a sanctimonious dweeb.

If you mute him on Twitter your (social media) life will be a lot happier.

 

[NyQuil]

Yeah, this guy is the poster boy for insightful hockey talk.