Donnie740
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Big ups to you for recognizing the logo. I’m advocating for the Steelheads to be relocated to Belleville after this ridiculous debacle in Brampton inevitably comes to an end.
GDT: Germany vs Canada, Group A; Dec 28, 2024, 7:30 Eastern
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Big ups to you for recognizing the logo. I’m advocating for the Steelheads to be relocated to Belleville after this ridiculous debacle in Brampton inevitably comes to an end.
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Don't really have the time nor the crayons to explain this to you but the only people who give a shit what Yakemchuk or Parekh like on instagram are chronically online hockey nerds looking for an excuse to be butthurt.
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For sure. Look at McKenna, if he wasn’t picked everyone would be losing their marbles that someone who was leading all CHL scorers isn’t on the team, but he hasn’t been himself here so far. Pinelli has 21 goals in 26 games, Ritchie has 34 points in 18 games and has scored in the NHL this season. Cowan is one of the best players in all of junior hockey and has looked good in NHL pre season games, surely a higher level than Germany or Latvia (No disrespect), Nadeau ripped up the ncaa and is producing well in the AHL, yet looks bad so far. Beaudoin is one of the best players on a top OHL team. Catton was the 8th overall pick and led the entire U18’s in scoring and is ripping up the WHL. Dickinson has 46 in 26. In short, there’s plenty of skill and talent here. They aren’t executing, but that won’t last. The dam will break. Either way, we have a good chance here. Chance to win the group on Tuesday, and if not, 3 chances after that to go for it. Need everyone to step up and start playing with more confidence, it’s clear as day they’re all collectively nervous and afraid to make mistakes. The online discourse since the selection camp has negatively affected these KIDS, take it to the bank. Something to consider for all of us who love to talk about this team and tournament. This isn’t 2000 anymore; these kids are all addicted to social media and you know they’re reading what we’re saying, and it’s been odious since training camp. Even I’ll admit I’m ashamed of some of the stuff I’ve said in the heat of the moment.
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Openly cheering your company to fail is always going to be an issue to any employer.
This isn’t outside political views/affairs/alternative lifestyles etc. it’s directly relevant to a job.
They grill these kids about character all the time. It would and should be a thing.
18 year olds play in the nhl. Do you think if an 18 year old was scratched he should openly cheer for his team to lose?
Did you cheer for your team to lose if you weren’t playing?
No, but it does confirm that Parekh does in fact have terrible character. Which was already known, but add another example to the pile. But I guess that tends to happen when you’re dad is obscenely rich and has paid your way all the way up.
Donnie740
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It’ll be interesting to see if Parekh clicks the like button on the write up about tonight’s win.
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I don't know but I'm not completely pissed off by a guy who is carrying a chip on his shoulder, even if it's not the best way to show it.
Michael Jordan is still pissed off to this day at being cut when he was a youngster and that bitterness helped propel him to superstardom and a whole lot of trophies. Point being, it's not always a bad thing for an athlete to have questionable character.
Orrrrrrrrr there current NHL employers or hockey Canada?
Hockey Canada turns down people who don’t play in lesser tournaments for the Olympics.
The idea that no cares what people “like” on social media isn’t true.
The leafs fired a goalie coach for liking trump stuff. Didn’t post anything
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What is the pile in this case? A lot of people seem to attack Parekh's character but I've seen little to back that up. The Flames typically prize character when drafting, so I'd be a little surprised if Parekh was actually this locker room cancer that many posters make him out to be.
Spitting on people is one example of poor character. Jousting with the fans is another. Plus his general demeanour is rude, imo. But I hope he turns it around, he does have uber talent.
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He was suspended last season for spitting on (or at) a Kingston player. That’s not great, and probably symptomatic of some character issues. Also lot of rumblings around the OHL that he’s an asshole. More charitably, he carries himself with a very cocky attitude (but backs it up with his play).
But you know what? Lots of these kids are assholes.
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It’s sad that Germany has produced NHL all-star calibre talent and continues to improve on the world stage?
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The day they turn this sport from a contest of talent on the ice into a perceived online moral turpitude bitchfest will be the day I turn it off for good. Luckily for those of us over here in reality, that's not the case.
An NHL team currently employs Evander Kane despite his long list of transgressions much more harmful than the damage an internet like on a sports profile could do. Many many many other such examples. I really hope I don't have to explain to you the difference between racism and transphobia and the result of a hockey game.
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Dack
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I know about the spitting and I assumed that's a big part of what people are referring to with him. It's bad but it's also one moment during some kind of altercation with a former teammate, I don't know what was said and I don't condone it but I think it's a lot to brand someone as having terrible character.
The jousting with fans thing was over sensationalized, he would've been suspended for a LONG time if he actually did anything to a fan. He was getting heckled by some fan and made him flinch, I have 0 issue with it personally.
The demeanor thing is subjective but I understand it, he's very aloof and cocky on the ice.
Oh I know he's an asshole, I've watched him play a lot. He's a huge chirper and is a bit of a rat but to me that's not the same thing as character issues. Like Matthew Tkachuk is an asshole, early in his career I'd even say he was a dirty player but I'd struggle to call that "character issues". To me character issues comes across more like a guy who's making problems in the dressing room like Tony DeAngelo at the end of his Rangers tenure.
They have won all 4 WJCs, all U18 WJCs and FIFA World Cup. Suspension has been very useful for Russia
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Allowed only 2 goals so far in the tournament (yes I know it's 3 but the 1 is from a shootout win) and people are still crying non stop because their teams prospect didn't make the team.
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And the 2 goals are only PP goals at that.
They've allowed 0 ES goals in 3 games. Their starting goalie has yet to allow a goal, at all, all tournament.
NordiquesForeva
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To me you can draw a line at stuff like spitting on other players. It’s gross and disrespectful. I think it happens so rarely that you can draw some conclusions about the players that actually do it. If there’s smoke there’s fire. But that’s just how I look at it.
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The level of homerism, just lmao. Guy has 28 points in 20 games and is on pace for 76 points. Him being the focal point of this team is why the team is the definition of mediocre.
