2021-2022 NHL Thread
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Heroic Shrimp
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Oof, the Oilers let Ottawa score 5 in the 3rd and lost 6-4. McDavid 0 points, Draisaitl 1 assist. Definitely time to inject a dude with tons of baggage into the line-up.
bustaheims
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Heroic Shrimp said:
Can he really make things worse?
Heroic Shrimp
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Well, I hope so.bustaheims said:
louisstamos
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Timo Meier is having himself a game today.
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/NHLBruins/status/1483439960502030337
OldTimeHockey
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Jim Matheson comes off like an idiot. Does he really want the canned answer of "we need to be better in our own zone" or "we need to work harder in the corners"...come on man, what a stupid question.
bustaheims
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https://twitter.com/AdamZHerman/status/1483544094462857222
herman said:
I thought Draisaltl was pretty reasonable. I mean he was terse and frustrated and didn?t want to create a story by blaming anyone in the organization (very reasonable and smart!). He wasn?t insulting or provocative. Reporter seemed like a jerk ? failed to show empathy for a player in a tough spot.
Guilt Trip
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Agree...just an assclown trying to get Drai to say something negative about the team ..as in goalies or other personal. No issue with the answers.OldTimeHockey said:
Guilt Trip
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Bruins getting it handed to them by the Canes...5-1 after 1 and it's like men playing against boys. Rask probably won't start the 2nd..he looks terrible like the rest of the team..
Kin
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herman said:
I don't know a lot about the Edmonton media's day to day coverage of the Oilers but it seems to me that if you're asking a question as relatively anodyne as "What do you guys have to do better" as some sort of cagey attempt to get a player to say something newsworthy, Matheson accomplished his job fantastically.
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/ProducerDrew_/status/1483628373763108869
Kin
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princedpw said:
It's not a reporter's job to be empathetic to Draisaitl in that situation. In fact it's sort of the opposite. He's supposed to ask Draisaitl a tough question and, to be frank, "Is there one thing in particular you guys need to be better at" is not a particularly tough question. It's not like he's asking "Who is to blame for this stretch?" or "Who's ultimately at fault for the construction of the team". There are about a dozen different typical NHL player ways to give a totally unremarkable calorie free inoffensive answer to that question like "We need to be better on the PP" or "We need to get off to better starts".
I think one of the better signs that this is a case of the general antipathy people have for the hockey media overriding good sense is it doesn't even seem people can pinpoint why "Is there a specific thing your team needs to be better at" is supposedly such an offensive question. To some it's "He's asking Draisaitl to throw other people under the bus" but in the tweets in Herman's post it's "Draisaitl's upset that the Edmonton media is blaming him for the team's failures" and quite obviously it can't be both if the implication is that if Draisaitl were to answer the question he'd be blaming someone else.
I just really think it's weird that we've become so conditioned to hockey players giving safe, no substance answers that people here somehow seem to think that it's then unfair or impolite for media members to ask honest questions that might be "tough" for players to answer. Literally asking tough questions is the job of people in the press. If Draisaitl doesn't want to answer honestly, he doesn't have to. The friction though clearly comes from the fact that Draisaitl can't answer honestly.
And let's be real, "I'll let you do that, you know everything" is being pissy(and undeniably provocative and insulting) and, while it doesn't particularly bother me if a hockey player is snarky with a reporter I think it's likewise fair for a reporter to point that out.