NHL players poll - most overrated

[maplesyrup]

Oh good, let's have the players decide who's "properly rated and paid." Maybe they could do it at he All-Star game. You know, some sort of draft or skill competition. Or, maybe another poll perhaps. No more agents, no more management. War is over. Kumbaya.

 

[maplesyrup]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb.   

 

[Madferret]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated"is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Doesn't Brophy write exclusively about the Leafs now?
This SI Poll really has you rattled eh Sarge?

 

[maplesyrup]

This SI Poll really has you rattled eh Sarge?

Yeah, see above edit.  :-\  :-[

 

[Madferret]

This SI Poll really has you rattled eh Sarge?

Yeah, see above edit.  :-\  :-[

At the end of the day how does this poll affect your love for your team?

 

[maplesyrup]

At the end of the day how does this poll affect your love for your team?

I'm not worried about it. Besides, I'm not even sure it's love any more. I think the honeymoon ended in the mid 90s. We're just trying to keep it together until the kids are grown. 

 

[Madferret]

At the end of the day how does this poll affect your love for your team?

I'm not worried about it. Besides, I'm not even sure it's love any more. I think the honeymoon ended in the mid 90s. We're just trying to keep it together until the kids are grown.

Well done.

 

[Andy007]

I really don't know why anyone would take this poll seriously. It seems as though it's mainly a list of players with long, inflated contracts.

 

[Kin]

Oh good, let's have the players decide who's "properly rated and paid." Maybe they could do it at he All-Star game. You know, some sort of draft or skill competition. Or, maybe another poll perhaps. No more agents, no more management. War is over. Kumbaya.

Seriously. Who are hockey players to have an opinion about hockey players?

 

[Kin]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

There's not much to suggest the list has a lot to do with players who are tough to play against. I mean, Scott Gomez? Kovalchuk? Heatley?

Hockey players aren't rocket scientists but I'm guessing that being as they manage to put their shoes on the right feet they can handle "Who is overrated".

I mean, Brophy's piece is sure to be a big hit among knee pad manufacturers everywhere but it barely even tries to deflect the notion that Phaneuf is overrated. Media slobjobs like that are probably case 1A for Phaneuf being overrated.

 

[rdowdall]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb. 

Pronger wasn't on this list.  And I am pretty sure he has ticked some people off. 

 

[Tigger]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb. 

Pronger wasn't on this list.  And I am pretty sure he has ticked some people off.

Wasn't he #11?

 

[rdowdall]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb. 

Pronger wasn't on this list.  And I am pretty sure he has ticked some people off.

Wasn't he #11?

Well sure if you read past #10.....

Sorry, I'll be quiet now.

 

[Tigger]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb. 

Pronger wasn't on this list.  And I am pretty sure he has ticked some people off.

Wasn't he #11?

Well sure if you read past #10.....

Sorry, I'll be quiet now.

Didn't mean it like that, sorry, no worries though... it's an incomplete and really somewhat pointless poll without knowing who was electing this sort of statement. Honestly I can see a lot of players/people jealous over Dion being the captain of the Leafs, who wouldn't be, I mean, I wish I was him, jeebus...

 

[rdowdall]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb. 

Pronger wasn't on this list.  And I am pretty sure he has ticked some people off.

Wasn't he #11?

Well sure if you read past #10.....

Sorry, I'll be quiet now.

Didn't mean it like that, sorry, no worries though... it's an incomplete and really somewhat pointless poll without knowing who was electing this sort of statement. Honestly I can see a lot of players/people jealous over Dion being the captain of the Leafs, who wouldn't be, I mean, I wish I was him, jeebus...

No worries, I was just kidding around.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

What if the other 77% think Dion is great?

What if, like, our whole entire universe is just one atom in the fingernail of a much larger being?

Like, say, Ken Hitchcock?

 

[maplesyrup]

There's not much to suggest the list has a lot to do with players who are tough to play against. I mean, Scott Gomez? Kovalchuk? Heatley?

No, there's probably a bunch of other reasons why players take issue with Gomez, Kovalchuk, and Heatley. My post was about Phaneuf exclusively.

 

[Kin]

No, there's probably a bunch of other reasons why players take issue with Gomez, Kovalchuk, and Heatley. My post was about Phaneuf exclusively.

Oh yeah. I forgot we're on a quest to make this poll about anything other than a large chunk of NHL players thinking that Phaneuf is overrated.

Well, why stop there? I bet, secretly, there are a lot of guys in the league who wish they had a bigger forehead and are punishing Phaneuf for his good fortune.

 

[rdowdall]

No, there's probably a bunch of other reasons why players take issue with Gomez, Kovalchuk, and Heatley. My post was about Phaneuf exclusively.

Oh yeah. I forgot we're on a quest to make this poll about anything other than a large chunk of NHL players thinking that Phaneuf is overrated.

Well, why stop there? I bet, secretly, there are a lot of guys in the league who wish they had a bigger forehead and are punishing Phaneuf for his good fortune.

Is that a euphemism?

 

[LuncheonMeat]

Not sure why Brophy felt the need to come to Phaneuf's  defence but he sure does here;

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/12/brophy_phaneuf/

Not from the article but I'm thinking a key reason why some of NHL players are likely to point to Phaneuf as "overrated" is that he hits like a truck. He rubs guys out and is as physical as they come anywhere one ice. He plays a style of game that I think irritates people enough where they want to fight him and the's the problem. - Phaneuf usually won't. I'll bet there are scores of guys with Phaneuf on their "most wanted list". - Agree?/Disagree?   

Edit: Anyway, I'm not sure if those 23% really understood the question. Or maybe some of them did. I don't know.... and I don't enve know why I'm spending so much time on this or why it's bothering me or rather, letting it bother me. Like I said, the whole thing is just dumb. 

Pronger wasn't on this list.  And I am pretty sure he has ticked some people off.

Wasn't he #11?

Well sure if you read past #10.....

Sorry, I'll be quiet now.

Didn't mean it like that, sorry, no worries though... it's an incomplete and really somewhat pointless poll without knowing who was electing this sort of statement. Honestly I can see a lot of players/people jealous over Dion being the captain of the Leafs, who wouldn't be, I mean, I wish I was him[b/], jeebus...

I felt the same way until that whole jawgantism thing reared its ugly head.