Tuesday Morning Fly By: Where Mike Richter Gets Worse Eight Years After Retiring

I feel dumb, so very dumb.

Have fun. Only been there once, London mostly and I loved it. I hope to get back some day to take in a Man City game live.

Actually it could be Monday Morning. I got hit in the face with a volleyball in gym class yesterday and with my workload all the days and hours have been running together. It could be Monday. I may not be the best person to ask. I really don’t know.

Honestly I don’t even get mad or upset about them anymore. I’m done investing any emotions in that team while Reid still run’s the show. It’s certainly not all his fault, but a big part of it is.

It’s the Eagles. They were bad when my parents were growing up, they’re laughable while I have been growing up. I really expect nothing on a yearly basis, and I’m pleasantly surprised at how clueless this city is when it comes to football

Wanna talk about a work load. I never had more work than when I was doing my student teaching. Wasn’t my favorite part of college.

Don’t knock it until you try it.

Don’t you?

Besides, those Quebecois are some odd people. Nothing would surprise me.

I was watching that game last night when my wife came in just at that moment when Paille went down. After he was helped to the locker room and they zoomed in on his bloody helmet, she looked like she was gonna puke.

It concerns me that people haven’t seen this mentioned repeatedly already and are still asking the question.

27th is better than 30th, where we were recently, so it’s progress!
/sigh

And now the non-snarky answer:

It doesn’t concern most of us because a high-team faceoff percentage doesn’t correlate strongly to winning. Here’s a discussion we had last week, and here’s one of the articles I linked to there that shows faceoffs aren’t very important.

Some care, and there are obviously situations where you want to win them (on the PK, final minute of the game, etc.) but mostly, it isn’t a big problem.

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Hence no school for me

It always is.

Really? I thought it was pretty tame; am I just becoming that desensitized?

I just took a look on stubhub. Cheapest WC tix are $500. Le sigh. But alumni game tix can be had for under $50. So that’s not too bad.

I plan on inviting the boys over for the Winter Classic, opening up the windows in the house and buying expensive beer and ordering the food, possibly complete with some post WC NHL 2012 gameage

We all have our compromises

I’ve never heard a “journalist” say they like doing interviews, either.

Also, I’ve never seen the human element derided here—have seen it other places—but when it’s the main focus of any article, it limits the game. I see nothing wrong with wanting to education oneself if more information is available. Just buying the same crap that’s pushed out to us article after article—which, many times is the result of lazy journalism (or their inability to get anything out of their subjects, to be fair)—gets old after a while.

Maybe it’s selective perception talking, but you seem to keep making comments lately hating on the stuff that the masthead posts, and complaining about bloggers in general. I can’t help but wonder, if you have such a problem with the content and writers of sports blogs, why are you here?

Second,

I hate when so called "advanced’ stats are pushed as the real driving factor behind games, and the human element is derided.

Do you mean here or at some other site? I honestly don’t think that is the case here. Yeah, there’s lots of analysis and talk about stats, but if there’s been one overarching theme, it’s that Holmgren doesn’t understand the CBA stats aren’t perfect, eyes aren’t perfect, we need both to get insight into the game.

Third, I don’t see where that article talks about hating interviews. It doesn’t complain about being forced to do them. It’s also not pushing advanced stats or deriding the human element. It’s reflecting upon the frequent lack of useful information in the questions and their responses. Which isn’t surprising, really. You don’t want to give away anything that could hurt you or your team, so you learn to say a lot without really saying anything. But that doesn’t mean that the interviews are or aren’t enjoyable. And I’m sure how much a journalist enjoys an interview depends very much on the interviewer, the interviewee, and the situation. In the case of your friends covering the Olympics, I can certainly imagine that meeting and talking to athletes from all over the world could be a lot of fun. But maybe some people wouldn’t feel that way. Same with interviewing hockey players after games.

So I guess my point is, I don’t get what you’re complaining about.

That’s a bit misleading, Scott Paterno is the one who said he was disappointed.

Also, way to be an asshat, Sam. If Richie truly hated talking to you as much as you claim he did, there’s a good reason for it. And it stares you in the mirror every morning.

Carchidi is such a insufferable twat.

First off, it was Paterno’s son who said Joe was disappointed. And I would bet my life savings that it is true. Joe is not one to run away from anyone and I am sure he would have much rather addressed the media than have the PSU President, noted coward Graham Spanier cancel it last minute.

Wait, that’s a dude?

No. He looks like McCartney. He’s insufferable with the stick penalties, but if you permit me to use my woman card for a moment, he isn’t bad to look at.

Johnny Weir, OTOH, is not cute.