McSorley breaks his silence on the Brashear incident

[MadLuke]

The one thing I really disagree with here is that he wasn’t prepared. None of what he said sounded like a gut reaction on live radio. It sounded to me like he walked in knowing exactly what he was going to say, down to the phrasing of his requests to pivot to another topic. It all sounded to me very much like someone who has spent time being coached by a PR agent and rehearsing his talking points (which could also just be a reflection of having talked about it a lot for 20 years).

Or just that he would not have thought a vast amount of what he would say if asked in the shower, car drive, etc... for a good part of his life around that incident, seem impossible...

He went to court... he went to a nhl hearing about it, he is a public figure, the incident made national news... even with 0 PR coaching or never talking about it.... chance are he would have played that kind of moment a lot in his own head.

 

[The Panther]

it knocked Brashear out. do you realize how often Brashear was punched in the head and not knocked out.

it is clearly top 3 most egregious 'stick work' plays of all time

Wow, I don't see that at all. I don't know how old you are, but by the time I was about 14 (1990), I'd probably seen five or six stick-incidents worse than McSorley on Brashear. As noted, McSorley on Bullard (1988) was, to me, much worse than the Brashear incident, not only by the stick-work itself but also because it was completely unpremeditated.

But I suppose this is a pointless discussion. As Huey Lewis once said, "bad is bad".

 

[MeHateHe]

It all sounded to me very much like someone who has spent time being coached by a PR agent and rehearsing his talking points (which could also just be a reflection of having talked about it a lot for 20 years)

I’ve done media prep as part of my job for a couple of decades. His answers were textbook examples of what not to do if you want to shut down a line of questions. Don’t get angry, and don’t get defensive. He was a little of the first and a lot of the second.

 

[MadLuke]

Everyone as a plan before being punched in the face apply very well to a situation like that....