F Rutger McGroarty - WBS Penguins, AHL (2022, 14th, WPG; traded to PIT)

[Whileee]

Totally normal behavior on this website to bump a thread of a prospect of another team every single game he has a bad game.

My guess is that they are focusing on annoying posters who are fans of other teams and/or McGroarty and have no expectation that McGroarty even knows this thread exists.

My point isn't that McGroarty is bad (I don't follow him anymore, since he was traded), but that Jets fans are fairly normal for their salty reaction to him, especially irl (e.g. during the Pens-Jets game).

But you and I agree that our back and forth diverts from the thread topic, so I'll stop posting here and hope it goes back to a thread about McGroarty, the prospect.

Cheers.

 

[Thechozen1]

If someone dumps you and you keep harping on and on about it and are stalking them after the fact, aren’t you validating that maybe they had a good reason for the decision they made and you are a weirdo?

Except that’s the whole point of a hockey message board…. Commenting on prospect development all over the league. Get over it! People worldwide will form and share their opinions of prospects and players for your favourite team whether you like it or not.

 

[JiggsNY]

Catching up on this thread now. That title change was not my doing, and I agree it comes off as needlessly snarky. Going to change it now

 

[Mad Dog Tannen]

Catching up on this thread now. That title change was not my doing, and I agree it comes off as needlessly snarky. Going to change it now

Perfect title update!

 

[Mad Dog Tannen]

Good article on Rutger McGroarty’s struggles and some insight into why he’s not NHL ready

Talks about cutter and Will smith too, who are currently in the NHL.

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/dissecting-the-struggles-of-top-nhl-rookies-cutter-gauthier-rutger-mcgroarty-and-will-smith

Even after watching McGroarty go down to WBS, he just doesn’t look like himself right now. McGroarty was always so confident and tactical, often being the hardest-working player on the ice in college. This year, he looks too timid and reserved and that’s showing in his lack of production. Of the three players listed here, McGroarty’s play has been the most concerning. He had a good opportunity to play a big role for the Penguins out of the gate and he didn’t seize it. I’m confident it’ll come to him at some point – he was always one step ahead of his peers last year – but it’s going to take some time.

 

[KeyserSoze81]

That Jets fans look like bitter exes by continuously bumping this thread to shit on McGroarty.

I am not a Jets fan and I never cared in the least about Rutger McGroarty before all of this. But he deemed himself special and forced his way off of a team after they selected him in the draft, despite proving nothing. He thought that he should be gifted a spot on a team that is currently 1st in the league. He forced his way off of a well-managed franchise (not some hell hole like Buffalo or Columbus, where his career might stagnate).

That is a helluva window into a guy's character, and a perfectly legitimate reason to want to see him fail. So I stand with the masses, cheering on his hubris-induced failures.

 

[Jacob]

Probably a better window into his character is that several coaches deemed it good enough to give him the captaincy on the international stage, and in Michigan he wore an A as a sophomore. And he seems pretty normal in interviews, and generally unselfish as a player.

 

[SomeDude]

I don’t begrudge Jets fans at all for being salty. If a prospect did the same thing to the Pens, many Pens posters would be spamming their threads too.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

It's pro sports who cares , of course fans are gonna turn on a guy that doesn't wanna be there ,its all entertainment at the end of the day , this would be a non topic/issue in any other sport than hockey where there's only like 10 fanbases that actually live and die by their team so it looks weird when said fanbases are emotional compared to others

 

[EXTRAS]

I am not a Jets fan and I never cared in the least about Rutger McGroarty before all of this. But he deemed himself special and forced his way off of a team after they selected him in the draft, despite proving nothing. He thought that he should be gifted a spot on a team that is currently 1st in the league. He forced his way off of a well-managed franchise (not some hell hole like Buffalo or Columbus, where his career might stagnate).

That is a helluva window into a guy's character, and a perfectly legitimate reason to want to see him fail. So I stand with the masses, cheering on his hubris-induced failures.

I dunno. I wouldn't wanna spend my 20s in winnipeg.