Damien Cox is a national Sports writer as well. His work is garbage too.
The quotes don’t back up the stats posted. To say he dominated while losing the puck possession badly and getting one shot in the first two games shows what a joke it and your post are.
Damien Cox is hands down the most arrogant, pompous, disgusting, hockey “analysts” I’ve ever seen on any panel, and I’ve watched milbury and Healy.
Disgusting as he licks his lips before and after he speaks when on hockey central at noon. Which is not often anymore thank god...
Check out these few quick stories, some are beyond incredible, how a person can be that way. And he’s not even playing a character, which would at least MAYBE make some of this stuff forgiveable, that’s the sad part.
First quick story/example displaying his Arrogance, not only does he brag about the leafs on the regular but he laughs at the suffering of others. And I quote after Darren Millard said Montreal never gets many high draftpicks but they did this year. Cox proceeds to say in a laughing, tone “Montreal finally gets a good pick this year (starts laughing while speaking) and they screwed it uppppp! Ah .... Haha haha” (about kotkaniemi)
*gets looked at awkwardly because he knows it’s u professional and his laugh was loud and it just didn’t come off funny. If I was a habs fan I’d be sweating in French.
Here’s another extremely ignorant thing he said last spring. This one was the worst of them. So Marc Savard was on the hockey central at noon panel wth him and Darren Millard, Millard says (this was during the day of game 7 vs the leafs) “so tonight if Boston should lose this will be the last game ever for their anthem singer who’s been with the team for so many years..” (Savard smiles because he must of been aquatinted with him while playing there) then Damien Cox says with a straight face right away..“Thank god!....hes awful so it’s about time.” (About it being the bruins anthem singers last game)
Savard had this look on his face like “oh really buddy, you’re actually going to say that’s about this dedicated guy and on TV for what could be his last game?” Absolutely classless. Kudos to Savard for being so professional to not even argue with Cox. Cox who is more “experienced” should of showed that acted like a professional. He could of at least backtracked and tried to make it sound better even if it was an impulsive decision, but he didn’t because he’s too much of a douche to care.
Also Savard said “I hope buffalo wins the dahlin lottery after Millard picked the coyotes.”
Cox goes “WHYYY?” ...Not in a curious way, in a way like a 19 year old at a party would ask his buddy why he didn’t want to go out downtown.”
Savard said “oh because they’re so helpless right now and I think it’d help them.”
Also on the show in late June (the same one with his kotkaniemi bashing) when buffalo squired Sheary ....Damien Cox says “why would BUFFALO of all teams give a third rounder aren’t they trying to rebuild?” Chris Johnston on the show that day was intelligent enough to say “we’ll Damien they’re looking to be better then dead last. They’ve been at this rebuild for awhile...and they need help on the wings.”
(I’m not even exaggerating with this about Cox then he goes in the most loud, arrogant “they suck so bad” type of tone)
“Oh THEY NEED HELP ahaha...” (in a way to say yeah no kidding they need help.)
anyway everything I named happened in the span of one or two shows. Those few examples are just a sample of what this biased, sorry excuse for an on-air personality is capable of. Great hire sportsnet!