Squanto wrote:
This is hockey related, but I'm putting in here for reasons that will be very obvious.
I've already reached my limit with people sniping at Miller because of his engagement. I think it's downright retarded, and shows zero class as fans. Yes, the team is playing like trash. Yes, Miller isn't at the top of his game either. But none of that has anything to do with his personal relationship.
Alex tweeted this tonight, and I couldn't believe it. (I don't mean to single you out Alex, but this really got me going.)
A guy does some NHL pub as a marketable NHL player, and he doesn't care about the game anymore? We bitch about how the NHL doesn't market anyone but Crosby, but when they market OUR guy (something which we should be proud of), our guy is now shit for doing it?
Ryan Miller was dating his fiance last year before the Olympics, and he was awesome. He doesn't just all of a sudden turn to shit because he put a ring on it. His relationship has NOTHING to do with his play, yet people find the need to snipe at him about it. I think it's ignorant, and distasteful.
Yes, I know this is something that Alex said, but these little shots have been flying around ever since news of the engagement came out. I think people should man up. If you want to criticize his play, fine. But blaming it on his engagement is fucking retarded.
(And because someone will bring it up, I'm writing this as me. Not as a mod, not saying people shouldn't bring it up or anything.)
I've already reached my limit with people sniping at Miller because of his engagement. I think it's downright retarded, and shows zero class as fans. Yes, the team is playing like trash. Yes, Miller isn't at the top of his game either. But none of that has anything to do with his personal relationship.
Alex tweeted this tonight, and I couldn't believe it. (I don't mean to single you out Alex, but this really got me going.)
Quote:
CriminallyVu1ga Alexander
i wish our celebutante goalie cared about playing hockey more than hamming it up for espn and hobnobbing with celebrities
i wish our celebutante goalie cared about playing hockey more than hamming it up for espn and hobnobbing with celebrities
A guy does some NHL pub as a marketable NHL player, and he doesn't care about the game anymore? We bitch about how the NHL doesn't market anyone but Crosby, but when they market OUR guy (something which we should be proud of), our guy is now shit for doing it?
Ryan Miller was dating his fiance last year before the Olympics, and he was awesome. He doesn't just all of a sudden turn to shit because he put a ring on it. His relationship has NOTHING to do with his play, yet people find the need to snipe at him about it. I think it's ignorant, and distasteful.
Yes, I know this is something that Alex said, but these little shots have been flying around ever since news of the engagement came out. I think people should man up. If you want to criticize his play, fine. But blaming it on his engagement is fucking retarded.
(And because someone will bring it up, I'm writing this as me. Not as a mod, not saying people shouldn't bring it up or anything.)
I thought that was a combination of a FB quote and a blog post before I remembered I put it on twitter.
In my blog where I was able to go into a detail that is impossible on twitter (and I kind of said this on facebook too) I explained that my main criticism is that as soon as people see an article about Drew Stafford's band or Thomas Vanek's kids (or Roy's and Connolly's alleged Chippewa antics for that matter), the immediate question is how much those outside distractions are impacting their play. Meanwhile Ryan Miller seems to be the invisible man when it comes to similar criticisms (as I've seen virtually nothing tying his personal life to his hockey performances aside form semi-seriously from myself).
It was a definite cheap shot at Miller and I take full credit/responsibility for it. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to explain that it was more out of a desire to apply the same ridiculous standards to Miller that others have applied to Stafford, Vanek, Roy, and Connolly than it was to convince people that Noureen Dewoulf is Yoko Ono-ing Ryan Miller.
I have always said that I think that Miller is one of the most well prepared players in hockey, but it's frustrating to see him come in and not play to the level we expect. And doubly frustrating when he's held less accountable by the fans for his poor performances by other players.
