Some members need to get over themselves.
1) BLH article is taking a different viewpoint and extrapolating. So what? I guess I should no longer be surprised to realize that some/many people just want to read the same old shit day after day as long as it conforms to their viewpoint.
2) BLH deserves to be mocked because he never breaks anything? He lives in rural Alberta or Taiwan? He has the nerve to monetize his site with some goofy looking shirts? He has some spelling, grammar errors in his work?
3) Some reasonable points are raised in his opinion piece. And I say this as someone who has posted here that JP was dead to me the day he went public with his stupid trade demands. I consider these to be valid points raised in the article ...
a)Translating software is a joke. I work with it everyday. If you are relying on translating software for your final results you either don’t care or you are an idiot. The ‘journalists’ using software for their published quotes can choose which of those hats they’d like to wear.
b)It takes a long time to learn a second language. As someone able to get by in a couple of languages I laugh and laugh and laugh at the people (like the goof in the BLH comment section) who think you should be ‘almost fluent’ in a year or two.
c)It was leaked that McDavid and Draisaitl don’t want to play with JP. It was discussed here at the time. It’s certainly possible that those statements were never made by the two best players on the team. I hope they weren’t. But it raises questions ... I wonder which of the non-Taiwan based, ‘professional’ journalists in Edmonton leaked that story and to what selfish end - it certainly wasn’t done for the good of the team. I wonder why everyone here seems to believe the leadership of the team made those comments, and it’s OK that they did. And I wonder how everyone thinks comments like that made by the two best players, true or not, would affect a foreign kid trying to fit into a hockey locker room.
d) Poor examples (Marody and Brassard) may have been chosen by BLH, but he isn’t wrong to state that there are many many examples of players who clash with coaches when it comes to the best way to overcome weaknesses in their game. Worse, as far as I know, we have no concrete evidence that JP disregarded coaching advice regarding his play on the ice. Maybe he’s just taking longer to ‘get it’? Maybe he just isn’t good enough? We don’t have to run with the narrative that he’s unwilling to be coached on top of everything else do we?
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@Louis Cypher has been a member here since 2007. His post history shows him to be a reasonable and serious contributor. He posted a link to the appropriate thread in the dead days of summer and called it ‘interesting’. My goodness. What a terrible thing to do. Folks ridiculing him for the post or speculating as to an ulterior motive (he must be BLH) need to be very ashamed of themselves.