Player Discussion Mika Zibanejad

[Leonardo87]

Please try and refrain from personal attacks towards Mika's personal life. If you want to criticize his play on the ice, absolutely go to town. If you want to criticize his comments in the recent article about his ice time, no problem whatsoever. But some of you have crossed that line into more personal affairs.

The issue is we are crossing that line into more libel comments, or misrepresenting the truth, and prying into his personal life, and has led to wild speculation to why he is playing poorly. This is something here at HF boards we try to avoid, when it comes to false info and/or misrepresentation of the truth. Thank you for understanding.

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[romba]

I have no steak in this, but very sad we need a disclaimer not to personally attack a player about his life style or background instead of on-ice performance.

That being said, we can all have some serious beef regarding him complaining about ice time.

Most important question is when will his line stop being called the 'first line'. I believe the writing will be in the tea leaves when Sam and Joe start calling Zib and Panarin lines 1a and 1b, and eventually when Chytil lines is out scoring Zib line for months they'll just go with '3 scoring lines' even though only two of them do the scoring lol

 

[JCProdigy]

I have no steak in this, but very sad we need a disclaimer not to personally attack a player about his life style or background instead of on-ice performance.

That being said, we can all have some serious beef regarding him complaining about ice time.

I see what you did there

 

[Jack Hanson]

Mika ..

 

[WojtekWolski86]

I have no steak in this, but very sad we need a disclaimer not to personally attack a player about his life style or background instead of on-ice performance.

That being said, we can all have some serious beef regarding him complaining about ice time.

Most important question is when will his line stop being called the 'first line'. I believe the writing will be in the tea leaves when Sam and Joe start calling Zib and Panarin lines 1a and 1b, and eventually when Chytil lines is out scoring Zib line for months they'll just go with '3 scoring lines' even though only two of them do the scoring lol

All those meat references and spelling mistakes to meats makes this an impossible burger.

Anyway. Marchand got yelled at by his coach and responded the right way as a captain. Does Mika realize he has to be accountable as a leader on this team? I know the last 2 coaches didn't hold the vets accountable...

 

[TGWL]

All those meat references and spelling mistakes to meats makes this an impossible burger.

Anyway. Marchand got yelled at by his coach and responded the right way as a captain. Does Mika realize he has to be accountable as a leader on this team? I know the last 2 coaches didn't hold the vets accountable...

No, Mikka will just get wait it out for the coach to be fired.

 

[Guyute]

I have no problem with what Mika said about ice time. He was just answering Brooks' question about minutes, not going out of his way to complain about it. He said what any player in the league would say about ice time.

I do have problems with his willingness (or lack thereof) to engage in 50/50 battles and his carelessness with the puck on his stick.

 

[Synergy27]

Is calling him Midka a personal attack?

 

[Ail]

Weaka, Meeka, Midka, VeganBetaTofuBitchNerd... you guys are very creative.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Considering a player's personal life might affect his on ice play, how is it not relevant?

 

[savebyrichter94]

This guy is so coddled LMAO

 

[romba]

Considering a player's personal life might affect his on ice play, how is it not relevant?

The problem is when it's negative conjecture it borders on slander

 

[haveandare]

It’s a problem with a lot of our guys and I’ve feared it’s going to stop them from winning it all, but he doesn’t get pissed, doesn’t ever play like an asshole, etc. You don’t need guys who are that all the time but you need guys who are able to get that mindset going and a lot of our guys, most notably Mika, are just too even keeled and low key all the time.