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If a neighbor's weeds were invading your yard, you'd beat the **** out of him with a metal pipe?
What other type of pipe would you use? PVC? Get real BRB.
If a neighbor's weeds were invading your yard, you'd beat the **** out of him with a metal pipe?
Okay, so you have never gotten that angry, right? I am not saying this behavior is "okay", but YOU nor anyone else have any idea as to "why" he attacked his neighbor. Maybe his weeds were invading his yard, maybe he kicked Pav's dog. Those things might make me come after my neighbor with a pipe. Amongst other things, There is only so much a neighbor should be neighborly about, when one takes advantage of another. It has to end somewhere. Where's my pipe? Lol.
Sad, whatever it is. Mental illness is no joke. I hope he gets the treatment he apparently desperately needs.
I kind of expected something like this. Pavelich has been living kind of as a recluse for years---his wife died in an accident a few years back. He's probably been living with issues all along and they probably have gradually worsened.
That's truly awful. He was never a fan of the limelight or anything, but it very clearly worsened. Really hope he can get the help he needs.
He wasn't a fighter, I know that. He was a finesse guy.Not Joking: Did he suffer from any weird head injuries?
He wasn't a fighter, I know that. He was a finesse guy.
2. All heroics aside, we tend to forget that these are still human beings. They can have any affiliation.
Am I the only one who keeps seeing this and thinking of Ondrej Pavelec?
this story, and whether it reflected long-term effects from hockey, were a lead story of the magazine of the Washington Post this month
https://www.washingtonpost.com/maga...lent-crime-was-head-trauma-blame/?arc404=true
An Olympic Hockey Hero, a Violent Crime and the Specter of Brain Trauma
Forty years ago, Mark Pavelich played a crucial role in the U.S. hockey team’s triumph over the Russians. Was there a steep cost for his lifetime on the ice?
Probably. I'm thinking Lake Placid was long before you were born. This guy was one of the best players on the Olympic team and the Rangers in the early 80's.
You got that right. Pavelich was part of the "smurfs" on those early 80's Ranger teams that were very good and exciting teams but just couldn't get past the Islanders when all was said and done.
Pavelich was a great Rangers...point a game guy he was that good. Too bad his career was cut short I think by concussions or something along those lines.
But man those were some fun times watching the smurfs...Rejo Routsalainen, Eddie Johnstone, Pavelich obviously, Mike Rogers.
Hopefully Pavs gets the help he needs.
There is no doubt he had concussions. His sister in fact believes he has CTE and if that's the case he's had it for a while and that can only get worse as a person gets older.
All that said his end with the Rangers IMO is at least in part because of the antipathy between him and the Rangers coach at that time Ted Sator. Before his last season with the Rangers was over he had packed his bags and quit the team--Ruotsolainen and Beck would both follow him at season's end. They had issues with Sator too. Malintentioned coaches as we've seen this year (Babcock, Peters for example) can create a lot of problems.
Yeah your right about Sator...he was hated by most of the team incuding as you say Pavelich.
What's bizarre about all of this was the somehow maybe to spite Sator, the Rangers despite having a very very mediocre regular season, got their shit together enough to sneak into the playoffs that 85-86 season and we went on this glorious fun playoff run where we beat the heavily favored Capitals and Flyers in huge upsets.
I believe both the Caps and Flyers had at least 30 more regular season points than us as both teams were loaded with talent at the time. But we incredibly ended up beating them both as I remember vividly Pierre Larouche my favorite Ranger at the time, going on some sick run of his as he was on fire that whole playoff run.
I recall as well Mike Ridley, Bob Brooke who was Pavelich's teamate on the 1980 USA team and Tomas Sandstrom having amazing playoff performances as well.
That was the year we all fell in love with the Beezer ...John Vanbiesbrouk who was amazing that entire year but especially during that insane playoff run of ours.
Forget the '94 Cup run as that is in it's own special catagory as far as Ranger playoff runs I've ever experienced and likely most of y'all but the 1986 playoff run was simply amazing.
Even tho our dream of a Cup ended at the hands of them stinken Canadians who beat us in 5 in the ECF, that 1985-86 playoff run to this day is about as fun a playoff run I have ever experienced as a fan. I will say the 1978-79 run to the Cup finals while beating the heavily favored and hated Islanders is WAY up there as well.
But there was something very special about this '86 playoff run. It came out of virtually nowhere and totally out of the blue with no warning at all which made it that much more special. It helped that we had a really fun team who tho they hated the coach ended up playing great hockey anyways at the absolute perfect time as well.
Good memories Eco...very good memories. I gotta feeling this team we got going on here is going to give us some very good memories as well before too long!!
I don't know if you remember but Pierre Larouche and Sator had issues in training camp and the Rangers sent Larouche to the minors and not just to the Rangers AHL minor league team but to the Hershey Bears instead and there Larouche languished for about 2/3's of the season before the Rangers out of desperation (I forget whether it was injuries or just playing awful or maybe it had something to do with Pavelich leaving) recalled him and then he went almost immediately on that insane goal scoring run and they did have a good run in the playoffs.
Bob Brooke was not on the 1980 US Olympic team. He was on the 1984 (Pat Lafontaine, Chris Chelios, Ed Olczyk) US Olympic team and I believe he was a rookie that year. The Rangers actually had at one time or another 4 of the players who played on that 1980 team--Rob McClanahan, Dave Silk, Bill Baker and of course Pavelich and Pavelich was the best of them.
Don’t forget. They gave Larouche‘s number 10 away to Kelly Miller also. That is why he played with number 24 when they recalled him.