I applaud them.

Yep, close knit team we got here. Assholes.

With that paper groin should Danny Briere really be doing any shoveling?

Freud would say such an spontaneous act of charity is actually Lappy and Briere expressing what the Snider/Holmgrem Model deems “hardwired” into the Flyer psyche upon signing an NTC: a subconscious, sadomasochistic desire to help other teams, in particular teams of less talent, like the Tampa Bay Lightening and Florida Panthers, “dig” themselves out of the basement, (naturally the snow in this sceranio) and into play off contention (the car ride home)

yeah, While Richie, Hartnell, and Carter were getting crunk off their arses back home.

They need to dig themselves out of this offensive funk they’ve been in, amirite?

And since when did Danny Briere become Mr. Plow?

Just another reason why Lappy is the man. Love him!

The caption says this:

Danny Briere and Ian Laperriere stayed til the end to make sure everybody got their cars out safely.

That doesn’t mean everyone ran home right away. Everyone probably had to dig his own car out, and Lappy and Danny probably made sure that everyone pulled away safely.

If the scenario actually happened the way you all are painting it, how come no one is calling out other veteran guys like Chris Pronger or Brian Boucher for not helping?

Maybe Briere and Lappy were carpooling with others?

I think they are just nice guys. No need to overanalyze.

I played hockey in college and we had a similar circumstance my freshman year where we came back from a game, after a 3 hr bus ride we got back to the parking lot and all of our cars were snowed in. Our Captain said no one could leave until every single car was dug out and ready to go. And this was after we just got done demolishing a team 10-1. Everyone stayed, everyone helped and we were all out of there within about an hour and a half. Can’t say everyone was happy, myself included but we all understood the point.

That’s leadership, that’s team work. That’s what it’s about.

This is all ridiculous banter about team loyalty for which none of us know the situation. I am sure they all didn’t show up with pusses on their faces angry about that loss. Someone has to leave first right and some one has to leave last. Does anyone really think someone didn’t help someone else if in fact they needed the help? If briere and laperiere helped a little more great this really meaningless shit and equating it to true team unity and loyalty is like saying mcnab doesn’t care because he smiles on the sidelines.

This site has me laughing a vague twitter post about shoveling snow and Richards and Carter get ripped. Jesus you guys are making tons of assumptions to take your shots at the the two leading scorers on this team. All of these assumptions also go to the negative side of things. Basically Richards let the rest of the team dig his car out well he sat he inside with the heater on and then drove off giving the rest his team-mates the finger. Jesus Christ.

A more plausible scenario the single guys some who own homes needed to get home to take care of there places. Their wives / kids weren’t home over the weekend to dig out the driveway etc. So Richards drives to his home in NJ and starts shoveling at 3am real fun.

It was classy of Briere and Lappy to stay til the very end, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility that other guys didn’t stay almost-to-the-end, so I don’t think anybody should be personally attacked here. We don’t have the context to know more, Briere and Lappy may have convinced people to go ahead and go, you know “We’ve got this, go ahead, there’s only a couple people left” or whatever.

My question about the situation is why does that parking lot look so bad? From the angle of that picture, it doesn’t look like the lot was mostly plowed and the players just had to clear their cars off and slowly pull out. I realize that clearing your car when there’s that much snow still requires effort, but in that shot their lot looks far worse than the parking lot in my apartment complex did at the 2 am Sunday morning, and my landlord isn’t exactly worried about the safety of players with multimillion dollar contracts and expensive cars.