Seravalli comes in hot with an all-time tone deaf season prediction

[The Crypto Guy]

Seemed pretty clear to me at first. But good on him to take the high road and clarify / apologize.

Agreed. Don't think he meant it to come of like it did, he made a mistake and apologized.

Anyway, I love his other prediction:

"13. After a proper period of mourning, the Lady Byng Trophy will be renamed in memory of Johnny (and Matthew) Gaudreau. Lady Byng had a great 100-year run. John won the Byng in 2017 and was a true gentleman of the game. It would also be appropriate for on-ice officials to vote on the award."

That needs to happen.

 

[majormajor]

Agreed. Don't think he meant it to come of like it did, he made a mistake and apologized.

Anyway, I love his other prediction:

"13. After a proper period of mourning, the Lady Byng Trophy will be renamed in memory of Johnny (and Matthew) Gaudreau. Lady Byng had a great 100-year run. John won the Byng in 2017 and was a true gentleman of the game. It would also be appropriate for on-ice officials to vote on the award."

That needs to happen.

I would rather they re-institute a +/- trophy, this time at 5v5 +/- only so it doesn't get gamed by 6v5s and so on. And call that the Johnny Gaudreau trophy after he led the league in that category in 2022.

That would be a very meaningful trophy hockey-wise, I personally would not want to be associated with the Lady Byng. Gentlemanly has always been an awkward thing to call a hockey player.

 

[Cloned]

If you watch Seravelli on his podcast runs, this isn’t that shocking coming from him.

 

[LevelingSolo]

I think its just awkwardly phrased, by no means though was he trying to offend anyone with this

Edit: Yikes to some of the replies, the Internet reactionary outrage is real here

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Disturbing he thinks this is clever or humorous.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Dumbass comment but no different than the other 99% of garbage I see in hockey media so I'm not sure why this particular incident is receiving so much outrage. (probably because it's Seravalli who is already quite disliked)

 

[GordonGraham]

People are so easly offended nowadays, its pretty obvious they will finish last

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

I think Seravelli is just a weird autistic guy. He probably didn’t mean anything nasty or provocative

 

[StreetHawk]

I think its just awkwardly phrased, by no means though was he trying to offend anyone with this

Edit: Yikes to some of the replies, the Internet reactionary outrage is real here

Poorly worded by a “professional”. I agree that it wasn’t his intentions but darn, no one rushed you to get this out. Had time to review.

Now he sees how it feels to have a quote get picked apart like he would do to a coach or player.

 

[SENStastic]

Stay classy Seravalli

 

[Z-Diddy]

I don't even wanna research to see if its just taken out of context for a singular extra click bait, but if I'm hearing the reactions properly on this thread, this is beyond classless

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

I think Seravelli is just a weird autistic guy. He probably didn’t mean anything nasty or provocative

Deep pull.

 

[Kranix]

He has the same dead-eyed, expressionless affect and tone of voice no matter what he's talking about, he's totally bereft of tact, he's incapable of human conversation. He thought he was being poetic here.

 

[SI90]

I don’t think he meant any ill will but it’s just an odd thing to say. Weird.