Agent Hyperbole
Oct 6, 2008 NHL
Browsing through the NHL news, I came across this gem at TSN: Thrashers top prospect Pavelec won’t report to AHL. That’s odd, I thought, considering that the AHL is where ‘prospects’ have a tendency to play before getting their shot. Reading on:
”When Ondrej signed two years ago, [Thrashers GM Don Waddell] gave Ondrej his word. He sat there at the table and gave Ondrej his personal word that Ondrej would never be held back,” Allan Walsh, Pavelec’s agent, told Sporting News. ”Last year he led Chicago to an American League championship. This year he played in the first exhibition game and then the third period on October 3 — they threw him into the game cold in the third period. That is criminal mismanagement of a young goalie.”
Really, now? I looked up that second game - he didn’t exactly get thrown in as he started in goal coming out from the second intermission, which is a common occurrence in the pre-season. You want your guy to go to the KHL, fine, I get it, but don’t make getting put in to start the period for a struggling Hedberg sound like he got shoved onto the ice without his pads on.
Tags: atlanta, hedberg, Hockey, khl, NHL, pavelec, thrashers
Hey KHL…
Sep 3, 2008 NHL
…want to REALLY make the NHL sweat? I have an idea, which I will give you for free - US expansion! Every time the NHL plays a game or two over in Europe, it brings up the topic of European expansion. For a league as large as the NHL, it would be tough to have all that travel…but the KHL would definitely have a reason to work around that. There are several potential sites for teams out there, KC could get their anchor tenant for the building there, Vegas is on the board, heck, offer hockey back to Winnipeg and Hartford. Talk about a team in Hamilton and see what the NHL has to say about it. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
(but leave Chris Simon over there, okay?)
Tags: hamilton, hartford, Hockey, kansas city, khl, las vegas, NHL, simon, winnipeg
